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/ 23 February 2006
As the Ugandan president and his challengers prepare for a showdown at the polls on Thursday, the country’s first lady is also running for election after a campaign which has seen women politicians making remarkable progress. Janet Museveni (57) is making her first foray into politics by running as a parliamentary candidate in rural Ruhama in western Uganda.
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/ 22 February 2006
The man shrugs his shoulders and stares blankly at the Society for Protection against Cruelty to Animals officer when asked if he has ever heard of bird flu. Beside him, row upon row of chickens, pigeons and guinea fowl languish in filthy, cramped cages at the informal Kliptown market in Johannesburg, South Africa.
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/ 22 February 2006
The current Transnet workers’ strike will accomplish nothing that the company has not already committed to, management said on Wednesday. ”The strike merely affects the economy which, as the past few days illustrate, hurts the most vulnerable members of our society,” Transnet spokesperson John Dludlu said.
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/ 22 February 2006
Business and commerce in the Western Cape need to be informed well in advance of potential power shortages to prevent future loss, which is running at ”hundreds of millions of rands”, the Cape Regional Chamber of Commerce and Industry said on Wednesday.
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/ 22 February 2006
A signalling failure caused the accident between the Blue Train and the Trans Karoo near Beaufort West in October last year, according to a report released on Wednesday. The failure ”was as a result of a short circuit caused by a solder splatter in the relay unit”, said the chief executive of the Railway Safety Regulator.
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/ 22 February 2006
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The African Christian Democratic Party is confident of winning its Constitutional Court challenge against being barred from contesting the Cape Town municipal poll. ”We believe we have a strong case,” ACDP legal adviser Vincent Bergh said after hearing the party has been granted leave to appeal against an Electoral Court ruling.
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/ 22 February 2006
Britons spend more than £1,5-billion a year on cut flowers, and Kenya has nearly a quarter of the market, which peaks around February 14 as millions of Britons give flowers to loved ones on Valentine’s Day. As many as 50 000 people now work in Kenya’s flower industry, and for the past few weeks they have been working flat out to meet orders.
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/ 22 February 2006
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The violent protests in Khutsong prior to the municipal elections on March 1 are an exception and not the rule, Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) chairperson Brigalia Bam said on Wednesday at the opening of the IEC’s 12Â 000-square-metre national operations centre in Pretoria.
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/ 22 February 2006
Africa’s democratic leaders are upbeat about the progress and prospects of the continent. This emerged from the African Leaders’ State of Africa Report 2005, released by former United States ambassador to Tanzania Charles Stith at the University of the Witwatersrand on Wednesday.