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/ 19 October 2006
Lance Armstrong has blasted a new book, going on sale on Thursday, that claims to include fresh doping allegations against the seven-time Tour de France champion. LA Officiel has already caused a stir in Armstrong’s camp, which tried to debunk the book before it even hit the store shelves.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Highveld Lions will be pushing hard to establish their spot in the upper region of the log when they play an important double-header in the MTN domestic cricket championship this weekend. The Titans’ victory over the Warriors in East London on Wednesday has opened up the race for the semifinals.
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/ 19 October 2006
Unknown gunmen killed 38 civilians in at least five attacks in southern Sudan, a regional government official said on Thursday. "A group of armed men yesterday [Wednesday] killed 38 people, among whom were women and children," southern Sudan’s interior minister, Paul Mayom Akec, told reporters in Juba.
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/ 19 October 2006
Sexual-harassment claims against former Gauteng minister of social development Bob Mabaso will be internally investigated by the African National Congress (ANC), the party said on Thursday. ”I am ready to take part in the ANC internal disciplinary process to finalise the matter,” said Mabaso.
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/ 19 October 2006
Two men were killed in a light aircraft crash on Thursday morning near Petrusburg in the Free State, police said. Superintendent Sam Sesing said the Piper Cherokee 140 crashed into an open piece of land on the farm Spitskop about 10km west of Petrusburg.
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/ 19 October 2006
A teenager broke down in the Ramsgate High Court on Thursday as she recounted how her friend from Carletonville, Kalin Jooste, bled to death after being attacked in December last year. Earlier, the two men accused of murdering 16-year-old Jooste pleaded not guilty.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Online Publishers Association (OPA) on Thursday cautiously welcomed the announcement of further consultation on South Africa’s controversial Film and Publications Amendment Bill. The OPA has raised strong concerns over the impractical nature of implementing the legislation for online media.
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/ 19 October 2006
South Africa’s main inflation rates are expected to have dipped in September on lower fuel and electricity prices, but the reprieve is unlikely to ward off further interest rate hikes. The annual increase in the targeted CPIX inflation index is likely to have remained steady at 5% last month, but headline inflation and factory gate prices are forecast to have fallen.
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/ 19 October 2006
The Eastern Cape provincial administration was unable to account for R30,2-billion out of R34,1-billion (88,5%) it spent during 2005/06, the Public Service Accountability Monitor said on Thursday. The Eastern Cape auditor general issued five provincial departments with disclaimers for the 2005/06 financial year. These include the four major service-delivery departments.
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/ 19 October 2006
A South African astronomer has made a startling discovery about one of the world’s most closely studied galaxies. A team of scientists led by David Block from the University of the Witwatersrand has found new evidence that the Andromeda galaxy was involved in a violent head-on collision with its neighbouring dwarf galaxy more than 200-million years ago.