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/ 17 October 2006
Two Boland rugby players appeared in the Rawsonville Circuit Court on Tuesday charged with killing a Rawsonville player earlier in the year. A court official said the matter was transferred to Worcester where the pair would appear again on November 21. Ben Zimri, eighth man of the Delicious Club, and centre Wayne Matthee, were again released on a warning.
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/ 17 October 2006
Without special efforts to test multi-drug resistant patients for resistance to other drugs, government will be unaware of the presence of extreme drug-resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) among TB patients, the director general of health said on Tuesday. Thami Mseleku was speaking at a TB workshop in Pretoria attended by World Health Organisation officials.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Oval Test compensation row took a new twist on Tuesday when the England and Wales Cricket Board (ECB) set Pakistan cricket officials a deadline of the end of the month to settle the dispute. The ECB are anxious to avoid court action — but they are equally determined to reclaim the £800 000 that was lost when Pakistan were deemed to have forfeited this summer’s fourth Test.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Independent Democrats (ID) have accused Cape Town mayor Helen Zille of arrogance and contempt for her decision not to meet Western Cape local government minister Richard Dyantyi. Zille and her Democratic Alliance (DA), and the DA’s six coalition partners in the city government boycotted the meeting, which was attended only by the ID and the African National Congress.
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/ 17 October 2006
The Scorpions were conducting a selective prosecution in the parliamentary travel-voucher fraud case, the Cape High Court was told on Tuesday. ”In terms of the novel Animal Farm, some of us are less equal than others,” attorney Reuben Liddell, representing travel agent Soraya Beukes, told Cape Judge President John Hlophe.
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/ 17 October 2006
Zimbabwe on Tuesday postponed for the second time the trial of 31 trade union members accused of holding an illegal protest to allow the state to furnish more details of the charges to defence lawyers. The lawyer for the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions also complained that police were yet to investigate several officers on charges of assaulting union members after the September 13 protest.
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/ 17 October 2006
The holy grail of cricket, the coveted Ashes urn, arrived in Australia for only the second time in 123 years on Tuesday under tight security ahead of this year’s battle for its ownership. The symbol of cricketing enmity between England and Australia arrived in Sydney in a special carrying case, strapped into a business-class airline seat and handcuffed to the wrist of its curator.
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/ 17 October 2006
Zimbabwe is trying to persuade close ally China to help construct houses for more than a million people in need, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Local Government Minister Ignatius Chombo told the head of a visiting Chinese delegation that providing housing in Zimbabwe’s towns and cities was his government’s biggest challenge, reported the Herald daily.
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/ 17 October 2006
A Port Elizabeth man was expected to appear in the Uitenhage Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday following a hostage drama in Despatch, Eastern Cape police said. The man, in his 40s, allegedly locked a woman in his house at Azilia Park about 11am on Monday, said spokesperson Inspector Marianette Olivier. The man panicked when he saw police vehicles and neighbours gathering around the house and started shooting at bystanders.
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/ 17 October 2006
A train on Rome’s underground metro system rammed into the back of another at high speed on Tuesday, killing at least one person and injuring 110 others, five seriously, authorities said. Earlier, officials had said two people had been killed. The difference was apparently due to confusion at the scene.