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/ 21 February 2006
Opposition parties have questioned the circumstances surrounding the Western Cape’s power outages resulting from the Koeberg nuclear power station’s ongoing problems. Democratic Alliance Cape Town mayoral candidate Helen Zille said on Tuesday reports of undisclosed problems at Koeberg over the weekend were liable to create serious concern among the public.
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/ 21 February 2006
At least 21 people were killed when a car-bomb ripped through a mostly-Shi’ite market in southern Baghdad on Tuesday as visiting British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw appealed for Iraqi unity. The evening explosion devastated the Abu Dshir general market in the capital’s southern district of Dura as people went about their evening shopping, also wounding 27, police said.
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/ 21 February 2006
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka should be made to repay nearly R10 000 spent on a private flight for a medical doctor who accompanied her on an Abu Dhabi vacation last year, the Freedom Front Plus said on Tuesday. A medical doctor is required to accompany the deputy president on all overseas trips.
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/ 21 February 2006
The dismissal of Central Karoo District municipal manager, Truman Prince, will not affect the municipal election drive of the Independent Civic Organisation of South Africa (Icosa), the party said on Tuesday. Lyon was responding to news on Tuesday that a disciplinary committee had ruled that Prince be dismissed with immediate effect from his position as Central Karoo district municipal manager.
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/ 21 February 2006
An armed robber was shot dead on Tuesday when three men tried to rob a store manager near a shopping complex in Pretoria. At around 11.30am three men followed a store manager from a bank in East Lynne near his store and attempted to rob him.
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/ 21 February 2006
A health and safety meeting in a British factory building turned unexpectedly realistic on Tuesday when a floor suddenly collapsed, injuring four of the 21 participants. Firefighters were summoned to the Hyde Buildings in Manchester, northwest England, when the floor collapsed just as the assembled health and safety officers were discussing evacuation procedures.
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/ 21 February 2006
The despotic president of Turkmenistan, known as Turkmenbashi, has celebrated his 66th birthday by creating a new set of gold and silver coins in honour of poetry he has written. Last year, to celebrate his 65th birthday, Saparmurat Niyazov issued coins featuring his family tree.
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/ 21 February 2006
A Ugandan court on Tuesday charged a member of the country’s security forces with murder in the shooting deaths last week of two opposition supporters at a rally site. The election campaign has been punctuated by sporadic violence and opposition claims of rampant state intimidation are shared by human rights groups.
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/ 21 February 2006
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Improved housing and shopping facilities were among the promises made when President Thabo Mbeki hit the campaign trial on the Cape Flats on Tuesday, ahead of the March 1 municipal election. First stop was the home of 82-year-old Macassar resident Lilly Jansen in Krymekaar Street — the oldest street in the low-income suburb.
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/ 21 February 2006
President Robert Mugabe turned 82 on Tuesday and was showered with praise and birthday wishes despite Zimbabwe’s mounting economic woes. The state daily <i>Herald</i> published a 16-page supplement of pictures of Mugabe and congratulatory messages while the private <i>Daily Mirror</i> dedicated eight pages to his birthday.