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/ 30 October 2005
Huberte Rupert, wife of industrialist Anton Rupert, died in Stellenbosch on Friday night, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported. Rupert died peacefully in her sleep at the age of 86 following a long illness, the broadcaster quoted her son, Johann, as saying.
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/ 26 October 2005
The Freedom Front Plus says that even if the Oilgate scandal ruins the party financially, it won’t disclose its sources and will contest empowerment company Imvume Management court bid to force it to do so. The issue stems from disclosures about the scandal that the FF+ made in the National Assembly in June.
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/ 24 October 2005
Afrikaans singer Janita Claassen died of a long illness on Monday morning, news reports said. The popular singer had been battling cancer that affected her lungs and throat. Radio reports said she was 58 when she died. She was recently honoured at a concert in Centurion, Pretoria.
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/ 21 October 2005
National Intelligence Agency (NIA) director general Billy Masetlha has been suspended by Minister of Intelligence Ronnie Kasrils pending the outcome of an inquiry. Kasrils has also suspended two other senior NIA officials for allegedly placing businessman Saki Macozoma under illegal surveillance.
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/ 20 October 2005
Only a small number of Gauteng motorists on Thursday appeared to have heeded the government’s call to participate in Car-Free Day. Minister of Transport Jeff Radebe was walking and taking taxis in the Pretoria city centre on Thursday, raising awareness of Car-Free Day.
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/ 20 October 2005
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma on Wednesday condemned party members for the first time for burning T-shirts bearing the face of President Thabo Mbeki, South African Broadcasting Corporation television news reported.
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/ 19 October 2005
A journalist working for the British newspaper <i>The Guardian</i> is missing, believed kidnapped, in Iraq, the daily said on Wednesday. Rory Carroll, a 33-year-old Irishman, was on assignment in Baghdad when he disappeared, according to a statement from the newspaper, which said he could have been kidnapped.
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/ 13 October 2005
Zimbabwean and South African parliamentary committees have agreed visas for travel between the two countries should be scrapped, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Thursday. It said the portfolio committee on home affairs and defence from the two countries met in Harare on Wednesday.
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/ 10 October 2005
South Africa is dispatching doctors, medicines and food to earthquake-ravaged Pakistan, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Monday. The department told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Monday that it does not know of any South Africans who died or were injured in the quake.
About 1 400 people were killed by a mudslide in the Guatemalan highland village of Panabaj that had been triggered by torrential rains from Hurricane Stan, Reuters reported on Saturday. The latest figure would bring to almost 2 000 the total number of people killed by the storm.