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/ 22 February 2006
United States speedskaters Chad Hedrick and Shani Davis have revealed the full enmity of their bitter feud, a rivalry that helped cost them Olympic 1 500m gold. Italy’s Enrico Fabris won in one minute, 45,97 seconds on Tuesday, beating 1 000m Olympic champion Davis by ,16 of a second with 1 500m world record-holder Hedrick third in 1.46,22.
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/ 22 February 2006
Police in the Zimbabwean capital Harare arrested 43 demonstrators who tried to march to President Robert Mugabe’s offices on his birthday to demand a new Constitution. The 43, all members of the National Constitutional Assembly, were late on Tuesday being detained at Harare Central police station.
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/ 22 February 2006
A highly sensitive operation appeared to be under way on Tuesday night to secure the surrender and transfer to The Hague of General Ratko Mladic, the former Bosnian Serbian war commander who is Europe’s most wanted war crimes suspect. A flurry of confusing and contradictory reports left it unclear as to the whereabouts and condition of the 63-year-old, wanted on charges of genocide by the international war crimes tribunal.
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/ 22 February 2006
Power utility Eskom on Tuesday backed away from assurances given the day before that power supply to the Western Cape would be fully restored by mid-week. The assurance was given by Eskom chief executive Thulani Gcabashe during a meeting with the Minerals and Energy as well as Public Enterprises departments to discuss the recent power outages.
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/ 22 February 2006
South African Oscar-winner Charlize Theron will return to the Academy Awards stage next month to present one of the coveted golden Oscar statuettes, organisers announced on Tuesday. The ice-blond beauty (30) who won the best actress statuette for 2003’s Monster, in which she played a serial killer, is nominated again this year for her leading role as a female miner in North Country.
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/ 22 February 2006
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They resemble scenes from another era: angry crowds, clashes with police, shots, teargas and petrol bombs. Twelve years after apartheid ended, some townships are again burning. This time the target is not a racist white regime but the African National Congress, the liberation movement which swept to power in 1994 on a wave of euphoria and the promise of a better life for all.
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/ 22 February 2006
Anglo American South Africa CEO Lazarus Zim is to relinquish his executive responsibilities in Anglo American group and his directorship of Anglo Platinum and will in future be involved in the future empowerment of the mining sector and
specifically with the BEE structures being developed for Anglo Platinum.
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/ 22 February 2006
"Khadija Magardie raises important points about women intellectuals and their lack of access to public discourse in her commentary (‘Where are all the clever chicks?’, February 6). Her critiques of gender machinery and the hollow, official rhetoric around gender issues are justified and compelling," writes Barbara Boswell.
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/ 22 February 2006
Hamas has accused the United States and Israel of refusing to accept the result of a democratic election, following a report that the two countries were discussing means to de- stabilise and bring down a Hamas-led Palestinian administration. An article in The New York Times reported that Washington and Israel intended to block funding for the Palestinian Authority.
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/ 21 February 2006
Opposition parties have questioned the circumstances surrounding the Western Cape’s power outages resulting from the Koeberg nuclear power station’s ongoing problems. Democratic Alliance Cape Town mayoral candidate Helen Zille said on Tuesday reports of undisclosed problems at Koeberg over the weekend were liable to create serious concern among the public.