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/ 24 February 2006
Uganda’s opposition complained of intimidation and interference by the army in their strongholds on Thursday, as voters took part in the country’s first multiparty elections for 25 years. The security forces turned out in large numbers near polling stations, with police expressing concern that there might be an attempt to disrupt the vote.
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/ 24 February 2006
Iraqi authorities struggled to contain a convulsion of sectarian violence on Thursday in which more than 150 people died in massacres, armed clashes, suicide bombs and reprisal attacks on Sunni mosques. Sunni religious authorities said 128 Sunni mosques had been attacked and three clerics killed.
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/ 24 February 2006
Has Mark Boucher unwittingly unleashed a tidal wave of vaudeville on an unsuspecting Australian cricket team? This was the question on every drama queen’s glossed and outlined lips this week after the Frodo Baggins of South African cricket was quoted in an international magazine urging local fans to give the tourists hell at every opportunity.
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/ 24 February 2006
What is the meaning of the upheavals in Khutsong, the mining township west of Johannesburg that has forced itself from obscurity into the headlines? In this ruling party stronghold, residents burnt homes of election candidates of the African National Congress. They almost ran ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota out of town last week and plan to boycott next Wednesday’s election.
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/ 24 February 2006
Gauteng motorists will be amazed to learn that a price war has been taking place at the fuel pumps, it’s just that discounts have not been passed on to the consumer. The Competition Tribunal on Thursday blocked the proposed R12-billion merger of Sasol and Engen’s liquid fuels businesses into a new entity to be called Uhambo.
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/ 24 February 2006
An anchor government growth project designed to reduce the country’s crippling communication costs and boost jobs will be delayed — probably by a year — because a government department did not submit the project’s budget in time. The project, envisages parastatal Sentech rolling out a wireless broadband network countrywide.
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/ 24 February 2006
There is a disturbing sameness about the way South Africa’s two most vexatious neighbours negotiate their way up the proverbial creek with nary a sign of a paddle.
Swaziland’s King Mswati III appears to be emulating President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe. In the finest Austin Powers tradition, the mini-me king is attempting a Murambatsvina-style slum clearance of his own.
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/ 24 February 2006
Two years after being spirited out of his troubled Caribbean home, Jean-Bertrand Aristide maintains that his love affair with the Haitian people is as hot as ever. The former priest, who has been sheltering in South Africa since May 2004, announced this week that he’s going home.
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/ 23 February 2006
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The Democratic Alliance will ”turn on the lights” and pressurise Eskom and the government to get their act together regarding the current spate of electricity outages, party leader Tony Leon promised on Thursday. He said in this election the old slogan ”Power to the people” has taken on new meaning.
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/ 23 February 2006
Six British tourists and a pilot were taken to hospital after a helicopter made an emergency landing in the Cape of Good Hope area of the Table Mountain National Park on Thursday morning. A Cape Town emergency services spokesperson said the passengers and pilot had extricated themselves from the wreckage.