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/ 13 September 2004
There are boom times ahead at the Christian Soldier gun shop, a small emporium with a wide array of lethal weapons and a display window advertising its telephone number: 661-AMMO. At midnight tonight, a 10-year federal ban on some types of assault weapons will almost certainly expire, and the proprietor of Christian Soldier, Rob Shiflett, expects a stream of customers for newly legal civilian versions of AK-47s and M-16s.
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/ 13 September 2004
The Israeli prime minister, Ariel Sharon, accused extremist rabbis and settler leaders on Sunday of inciting a civil war against his government’s plan to withdraw all Jews from the Gaza Strip and some parts of the West Bank. Sharon banged the table at the weekly meeting of the Cabinet as he denounced his opponents’ call to soldiers to disobey orders to remove the settlers.
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/ 13 September 2004
At least four people were killed and 13 wounded when United States forces made a new assault on Iraq’s flashpoint city of Fallujah early on Monday, with fighter jets blowing up a civilian car and house, medics said. Four dead bodies, ravaged by the missile strike, were taken straight to the cemetery for burial after a US warplane struck a civilian car driving along a new motorway west of Fallujah.
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/ 13 September 2004
Reading difficulties can be traced to different parts of the brain in Chinese and Western children, a team of American scientists say. In China, dyslexia appears to have a different physical origin, because the script, also used in Japan, is symbol rather than alphabet-based. The discovery casts doubt on the widespread assumption that dyslexia has a universal cause.
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/ 13 September 2004
The tour bus trundles deeper through the veld and the passengers ready their cameras in anticipation. Various animals live here, but the visitors are only interested in taking pictures of the people. To the left, some are queuing for taxis; to the right, women hang washing amid a sprawl of shacks. Straight ahead is an open-air market.
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/ 13 September 2004
Dual-listed telecommunications group Telkom on Monday announced the repurchase of 22,257-million Telkom ordinary shares — or 4% of issued ordinary shares — through the order book operated by the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa.
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/ 13 September 2004
The four-day old strike at oil and chemicals group Sasol’s Secunda plant has ended. This comes after Sasol’s management reached an agreement with trade union Solidarity, in terms of which the trade unions will take part in the internal investigation into the explosion at the Secunda plant on September 1.
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/ 13 September 2004
The increasing number of HIV positive healthcare professionals will have a devastating impact on the South African health system, already under pressure from growing number of HIV/Aids patients. ”The effective prevention and care of HIV and Aids requires a strong health system,” SAA-Netcare director Dr Andrew Jamieson said on Sunday.
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/ 13 September 2004
Legendary South African communist and trade unionist, Ray Simons, died in Cape Town on Sunday night, the SA Communist Party said in a statement. Simons was born Rachel Alexander in Latvia in 1914. When she came to South Africa at the age of fifteen she was already a political militant, SACP spokesperson Mazibuko Jara said in the statement received in Johannesburg.
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/ 13 September 2004
The United States and Britain were on Sunday night trying to discover the cause of a huge mushroom cloud spotted over North Korea. US officials played down fears that it might have come from a nuclear test. However, the White House was reported to have received an intelligence briefing that Pyongyang could be preparing to carry out a test.