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/ 22 February 2006
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The African Christian Democratic Party is confident of winning its Constitutional Court challenge against being barred from contesting the Cape Town municipal poll. ”We believe we have a strong case,” ACDP legal adviser Vincent Bergh said after hearing the party has been granted leave to appeal against an Electoral Court ruling.
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/ 22 February 2006
A seven-year-old girl wed a stray dog as part of a ritual to ward off the ”evil eye” on her and her family in eastern India, a news agency reported on Wednesday. Shivam Munda’s upper teeth appeared before her lower teeth — considered a bad omen by members of the Santhal ethnic group to which she belongs.
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/ 22 February 2006
Prison authorities in California were on Tuesday forced to reschedule the execution of convicted murderer Michael Morales after it was delayed by a disagreement with medical personnel. The execution was called off at 2am on Tuesday, two hours after it was due to begin at San Quentin prison near San Francisco.
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/ 22 February 2006
A cholera outbreak has killed at least 45 people and infected about 1 860 others in the past two weeks in the southern Sudan capital, an international medical charity said on Wednesday. Médecins sans Frontières said ”a large outbreak can be expected” in Juba, a town with more than 250 000 people.
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/ 22 February 2006
Lawrence Summers, the president of Harvard University, stepped down from his post at America’s top educational institution on Tuesday after a five-year reign punctuated by battles with a rebellious academic staff and public relations gaffes. His resignation is effective on July 1.
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/ 22 February 2006
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The African National Congress is slipping through the gaps left by the fighting between the Freedom Front Plus and the Democratic Alliance, FF+ leader Pieter Mulder said on Wednesday. ”With the DA playing confusing politics and threatening voters to vote for them, we have to defend ourselves,” he said.
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/ 22 February 2006
Women’s right to abortion is not under threat by Doctors for Life’s action in the Constitutional Court, the Department of Health said on Wednesday. The main sections of the Choice of Termination of Pregnancy Act are not in dispute, said departmental spokesperson Sibani Mngadi.
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/ 22 February 2006
The South African Revenue Service has issued a tender for a proof of concept Linux desktop solution for the tax-collecting government department with a R355-billion revenue. A successful proof of concept could see 14 000 desktops running Windows migrated to Linux.
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/ 22 February 2006
Haitian leader Jean Bertrand Aristide, who is living in exile in South Africa, on Wednesday defended his decision to return home, saying it is his right as a citizen of the Caribbean nation. ”I have the right to be back,” he said in an interview with international news agencies in Pretoria.
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/ 22 February 2006
Ocean scientists can now plunge into the middle of the sea without leaving their offices. Two-metre, 45kg, underwater gliders are swimming the oceans of the world and dutifully sending data home on everything from whale calls to the massive waves produced by hurricanes.