About -billion in relief meant for victims of Hurricane Katrina was lost to fraud, with bogus claimants spending the money on Hawaiian holidays, football tickets, diamond jewellery and Girls Gone Wild porn videos, the US Congress was told on Wednesday.
The black-and-white photo illustrates the brutality of the apartheid regime: young Hector Pieterson carried by a fellow schoolboy after being gunned down by police on June 16 1976 in Soweto. Thirty years on, photographer Sam Nzima remembers the day that was to change the destiny of South Africa, and end his career as a photojournalist.
Arch-foes and Horn of Africa neighbours Ethiopia and Eritrea tussled on Wednesday over the holding of a meeting to discuss their simmering border dispute, as the fate of the planned talks remained unclear. Asmara said that it would not attend the meeting set for Thursday in The Hague unless Addis Ababa agreed to the terms of a 2002 border ruling.
South Africa recalled fit-again winger Bryan Habana and Scotland made six changes to its run-on side for the second rugby Test on Saturday. South Africa won the first 36-16 last Saturday at Durban. Habana missed that match because of an ankle injury he aggravated in the Bulls’ Super 14 semifinal.
Saab AB of Sweden and South Africa’s Denel have agreed to create a new aerostructures company in South Africa which will compete on international markets for design, manufacturing, and assembly orders in the civil and defence aerostructures fields.
United States aviation giant Boeing scored a major victory when Singapore Airlines (SIA) ordered 20 of its new mid-size jets while production delays plague its European rival Airbus. SIA on Wednesday announced an order for 20 Boeing 787 aircraft worth $4,5-billion, just hours after publicly expressing displeasure over a postponement in the delivery of the much-vaunted Airbus A380 super jumbo jet.
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It’s another hot night in St Pauli. Even without World Cup fever raising temperatures and other things, most nights are sizzling in this party district of sex shops, nightclubs and prostitutes. Inside the packed restaurants are giant television screens showing every match. Tonight it’s Brazil. Or is it Germany?
Amicus, one of Britain’s biggest trade unions, is offering workers tips about how to take time off work to watch World Cup football without damaging their employment prospects. ”So you want to watch the World Cup, but you are meant to be at work when it’s on: can you play away or is the risk of permanent relegation from your job too high?” Amicus said on its website.
More than R13-million is still missing after a Benoni police safe containing airport heist money was broken into, the town’s magistrate’s court heard on Wednesday. Only R340 000 of the R14-million — in US dollars and rands — that had been stolen had been recovered so far, said state prosecutor Peter-John Smith.
An accident at Australia’s only nuclear reactor forced Prime Minister John Howard’s government onto the defensive on Thursday, with political opponents saying the incident highlighted the dangers of nuclear power. Small amounts of radioactive gases escaped from a ruptured pipe at the Lucas Heights facility on the outskirts of Sydney last Thursday.