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/ 30 October 2007
It wasn’t that long ago that the air in Buenos Aires was heavy with anguish prompted by a collapsing national economy. Now it seems the breeze is filled with the tunes of tango and men’s cologne. The Argentinian capital is riding high on a tourist boom — one that relies in part on two new kinds of visitors: tango students and gay people.
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/ 30 October 2007
Santam, the country’s largest short-term insurer, says it will continue to insure Citi Golf vehicles and related models, despite the fact that these vehicles are considered high risk in terms of hijacking and theft. Some insurance companies have announced they will no longer insure certain models of Citi Golfs.
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/ 30 October 2007
African countries working jointly to construct an undersea telecoms cable should harmonise laws governing the sector if they are to land the much-awaited communications link, a senior United Nations official said on Monday. About 23 nations have long harboured a much-delayed plan to build the submarine cable to slash internet and calling costs.
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/ 29 October 2007
At least 30 people were burnt to death when a fully laden road tanker overturned and caught fire on a busy highway, Nigerian police said on Monday. The truck was conveying fuel from the commercial capital, Lagos, to the northern part of Africa’s most populous nation when it crashed and spilled its contents in the south-western Ogun state late on Sunday.
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/ 29 October 2007
Former spy boss Billy Masetlha said he found it amusing that the inspector general of intelligence kept asking for a report that had been sent to him several times, the Hatfield Community Court heard on Monday. Testifying under cross-examination, Masetlha said repeated requests from the inspector general for information ”took him aback”.
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/ 29 October 2007
The scourge of armed gangs who attacked and robbed innocent citizens in their own homes caused profound social demoralisation and impeded the transformation of society, a Pretoria High Court judge said on Monday. Judge John Murphy effectively sent a 55-year-old man to jail for 27 years for his role in torturing and robbing an elderly Laudium man and his son.
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/ 29 October 2007
United Nations and African Union officials are to travel to Darfur this week to try to convince key rebel leaders to join peace talks aimed at resolving the crisis in the Sudanese region, the AU said on Monday. Noureddine Mezni, spokesperson for the AU, said the officials would travel to Darfur ”in the next few days”.
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/ 29 October 2007
A two-year-old boy abducted by his father in mountainous terrain around Beaufort West was found unharmed on Monday afternoon, Western Cape police said. ”The boy was found safe and sound between the hours of 3pm and 4pm today [Monday],” said Captain Malcolm Pojie.
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/ 29 October 2007
Cape Town mayor Helen Zille has asked the police to let her listen to tapes related to the city’s ”spy” affair. Her request, in a letter to provincial Commissioner Mzwandile Petros on Monday, comes after police played some of the tapes to journalists. She said in a statement that Petros had also ”presented” the tapes to Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool.