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/ 6 November 2006
It was meant to be straightforward: a Nuremberg-style trial to show the world that dictators could be made to face justice in the land they once terrorised. Almost two years after being hauled from a hole in the ground, Saddam Hussein would finally enter the dock to answer for his crimes before a fully functioning Iraqi court.
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/ 6 November 2006
Durban businessman Schabir Shaik’s appeal against his fraud and corruption convictions has been dismissed. Reading the judgement in Bloemfontein, Supreme Court of Appeal Judge President Craig Howie said there were also no grounds to change Shaik’s effective prison sentence of 15 years.
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/ 6 November 2006
Chinese President Hu Jintao was to meet on Monday with Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe amid accusations that Beijing’s ties help to shore up a pariah regime other governments avoid. China has faced criticism for not toeing the world diplomatic line in isolating Mugabe’s regime, which is accused by opponents and rights groups of using torture and arbitrary arrest to quell dissent.
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/ 6 November 2006
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka has denied seeking to seize control of the country’s HIV/Aids programme while the health minister is recovering from an illness. A weekend report said Mlambo-Ngcuka and Deputy Health Minister Nizizwe Madlala-Routledge had begun steering the HIV/Aids programme in a new direction since Manto Tshabalala-Msimang fell ill last month.
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/ 6 November 2006
Theft and the illegal sale of military equipment are rife at Five SA Infantry battalion in Ladysmith in KwaZulu-Natal, Beeld reported on Monday. It said bullet-proof jackets from a military supply store have been sold for R500 each — apparently for use in cash-in-transit heists.
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/ 6 November 2006
Africa lacks the capacity and projects to attract the levels of investment in clean energy seen in other parts of the world, Kenya’s environment minister said on Sunday. Africa lags behind Asia and Latin America in the Kyoto Protocol’s Clean Development Mechanism, which lets rich nations fund clean energy projects in developing countries.
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/ 6 November 2006
Judgement in Schabir Shaik’s appeal against fraud and corruption convictions will be delivered on Monday from about 9.30am, the Supreme Court of Appeal said. Analysts said the judgement might make or break former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s chances of becoming president.
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/ 6 November 2006
On Wednesday, in Jdeida prison on the outskirts of Tripoli, five nurses and a doctor prepared themselves for the worst: word that after seven years in prison, they were to be executed by firing squad. The six, who left their countries to work at the Children’s Hospital in Libya’s second city, Benghazi, were arrested and locked up after being accused of deliberately injecting HIV-tainted blood into more than 400 children.
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/ 6 November 2006
Eric Samson is probably South Africa’s richest resident, though you don’t hear much of him. His unlisted Macsteel Holdings business empire generates revenue of nearly R70-billion a year, roughly equivalent in size to Sasol, and supplies much of the steel used in the local industry. Macsteel, one of the 10 largest companies in South Africa, is part of a probe into steel pricing by the Competition Tribunal.
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/ 6 November 2006
On World Habitat Day women used the opportunity to shed light on their living conditions and to illustrate the obstacles women still face in realising their housing rights. Their testimonies reveal that women bear the brunt of poverty and, along with their children, continue to be vulnerable. It also highlighted the fact that the face of poverty is changing.