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/ 6 February 2008
The constituency is thousands of kilometres wide and contains around six million voters with a keen interest in the primaries but you won’t find a reference to it on a map of the United States. It is the constituency of Americans abroad and on Tuesday night they were voting in their hundreds of thousands.
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/ 6 February 2008
A matriculant who earned eight distinctions last year may have lost the use of her legs after an armed robber ”emptied his gun on her”, a media report said on Wednesday. Razelle Botha (18), was at her home in Moreletta Park at 9.45pm on Monday night when the robber shot her in the arm, chest, stomach, lung and spine.
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/ 6 February 2008
Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama will have no time to pause after yesterday’s Super Tuesday performances before they head off into a fresh 72-hour marathon of coast-to-coast contests. Seven states are at stake, worth 467 delegates, almost a quarter of the 2 025 delegates needed for eventual victory.
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/ 6 February 2008
The Chevron Refinery said it will not be able to supply consumers with liquefied petroleum gas from Wednesday. Chevron Refinery’s public affairs manager, Phumi Nhlapo, said on Tuesday night that it had sufficient diesel and petrol stocks but could not resume production because it did not have a stable power supply.
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/ 6 February 2008
Funny, isn’t it, how we have come this far in the United States election campaign, reaching the milestone of results from 24 states in the early hours of Wednesday morning, and still a mystery remains. What, exactly, do these warring candidates stand for?
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/ 6 February 2008
Onwards to battle. That was the message emanating from a tough speech by Barack Obama as he addressed thousands of cheering supporters in his adopted hometown of Chicago. While the results of Super Tuesday were still being announced, Obama made a naked pitch to the rest of America who have not yet had a chance to vote.
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/ 5 February 2008
The lives of many animals may be threatened by power failures unless adequate back-up facilities are provided, the the National Council of Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (NSPCA) said on Tuesday. ”People who hold animals in captivity … [must] implement a contingency plan,” said the NSPCA.
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/ 5 February 2008
Société Générale was braced for fresh criticism from France’s top central banker on Tuesday as the man the bank blames for its record trading losses spoke out against his former employer. Jerome Kerviel (31) is under police investigation and said that he would not be turned into a ”scapegoat”.
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/ 5 February 2008
The police raid on the Johannesburg Central Methodist Church will affect the mental and physical health of Zimbabwean migrants, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said on Tuesday. ”Some [refugees] had suspected fractured ribs and possible lung contusions after receiving blows,” MSF said in a statement.
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/ 5 February 2008
The Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) will invest R100-million in a process to convert superfine iron ore into high quality iron units. The IDC said Iron Mineral Beneficiation Services — the company that has developed the technology called Finesmelt — would receive approximately R100-million from the IDC.