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/ 18 February 2006
Harry Whittington, the Republican lawyer shot by United States Vice-President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident in Texas last weekend, emerged from hospital on Friday and apologised to the vice-president for all the trouble the shooting had caused. Whittington absolved Cheney of any responsibility.
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/ 18 February 2006
The furore over the Prophet Muhammad cartoons hit a new peak on Friday night when at least nine people were reported dead in the Libyan city of Benghazi after a mob set fire to the Italian consulate. The row also showed no signs abating in Pakistan, where a cleric offered a huge reward to anyone who killed the Danish cartoonists.
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/ 18 February 2006
The Free State will spend almost half of its R11,6-billion budget for the 2006/07 financial year on education, provincial finance minister Tate Makgoe said on Friday. ”Education produces future leaders. [It is] an investment into the future of the province,” Makgoe said after delivering the provincial budget in Bloemfontein.
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/ 18 February 2006
A Nigerian citizen stripped naked in protest on Friday when the Johannesburg metro police tried to arrest him. Metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the incident began on the corner of Polly and Grahamstown streets in Jeppestown, where the man was repairing a car in the road.
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/ 18 February 2006
The heaviest rains in nearly 20 years have killed five people in Lesotho and forced thousands more to flee their homes, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Friday. The Lesotho disaster-management authority said bridges, houses and fields of crops were swept away or buried in landslides.
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/ 18 February 2006
Rescuers embarked on the seemingly hopeless task on Saturday morning of digging for survivors of a devastating landslide that buried an entire Philippines village, leaving as many as 1 800 people dead. Drenching rain and high winds aggravated the already wretched task of digging through the barrage of mud.
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/ 18 February 2006
Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez, said he would resist an ”imperialist attack” after Washington announced it would pursue an ”inoculation strategy” against his government by creating a united front against its policies. The rhetoric reflected a rapid deterioration in relations between the two countries.
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/ 17 February 2006
An escort-agency owner who murdered his sister-in-law and her husband, and then carried on with his life for three years before his wife exposed him, was sentenced to two terms of life imprisonment on Friday. Abraham Carel Koekemoer (49) did not show much emotion after being sentenced for the December 2002 murders.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) has singled out President Thabo Mbeki and Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang for criticism in a hard-hitting report to the African Peer Review Mechanism lashing the government’s response to the Aids pandemic. ”There has been a lack of leadership from the highest political level,” the TAC said.
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/ 17 February 2006
The Inkatha Freedom Party’s Durban district chairperson, James Maphalala, who was also an eThekwini municipal councillor, has died at his home in Lindelani, KwaZulu-Natal, after a long illness, the IFP said on Friday. IFP deputy national chairperson Velaphi Ndlovu expressed condolences to Maphalala’s family.