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/ 16 February 2006
Calling it ”the worst day of my life”, United States Vice-President Dick Cheney made his first public comments on Wednesday on the weekend hunting accident in which he shot a 78-year-old Texan lawyer. ”Ultimately I’m the guy who pulled the trigger that fired the round that hit Harry [Whittington],” Cheney said.
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/ 16 February 2006
World number-two platinum miner Impala Platinum (Implats) on Thursday reported headline earnings per share of R28,06 for the half-year to December 2005, up 78% from R15,81 in the half-year to December 2004 due to stronger dollar metal prices. The increase in the group’s headline earnings was better than it had previously advised.
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/ 16 February 2006
Holy terror, Batman! Gotham’s under attack, and the caped crusader is the only one who can kick al-Qaeda’s butt. That, in essence, is the plot of the latest Batman comic book by leading graphic novelist Frank Miller, who was speaking at a comic-book convention in San Francisco at the weekend.
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/ 16 February 2006
South African newspaper publisher Caxton on Wednesday reported diluted headline earnings per share of 59,2 cents for the six months ended December 2005 from 53,5 cents a year ago. Headline earnings per share came in at 59,8 cents from 54,2 cents before.
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/ 16 February 2006
The People’s Budget coalition on Wednesday praised Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s 2006 Budget, saying it promises real benefits for the poor. The coalition said it appreciates efforts to increase spending on services that, according to the coalition, have experienced very slow growth in the past 10 years.
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/ 16 February 2006
A group of Khutsong residents declared the township a no-go area for the African National Congress during a protest march on Wednesday. ”We are tired of the ANC. Other political parties are welcome to campaign, but not the ANC,” said Elisa Bogatsa as residents protested the transfer of the Merafong municipality from Gauteng to the North West.
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/ 16 February 2006
Zimbabwe has cleared its arrears to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Harare’s Herald newspaper reported on Thursday. Its website said the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe paid the outstanding -million on Wednesday to settle its overdue obligations in the general resources account.
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/ 16 February 2006
The Mexican government has admitted to staging a dramatic kidnap rescue for the benefit of a prime-time television audience. The raid, in which Mexico’s equivalent of the FBI burst into a farmhouse at dawn to subjugate four alleged kidnappers, had been presented by the government as proof that it was winning the battle against organised crime.
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/ 16 February 2006
Kaizer Chiefs’ championship hopes were given a much-needed boost when they delivered a clinical 1-0 victory over Premier Soccer League log leaders Mamelodi Sundowns at the FNB Stadium on Wednesday night. Sundowns became their own worst enemy as they failed to make good use of their opportunities.
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/ 16 February 2006
The Bush administration made an emergency request to Congress on Wednesday for a seven-fold increase in funding to mount the biggest propaganda campaign to date against the Tehran government, in a further sign of the worsening crisis between Iran and the West. The request is to be accompanied by a diplomatic drive to discuss Tehran’s suspect nuclear weapons programme.