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/ 10 December 2005
United States software giant Microsoft went on the offensive on the home turf of its Japanese rivals on Saturday, launching its sleek new Xbox 360 console ahead of the holiday season. About 200 game fans queued up for the main launch event that began at 7am local time at a music store in central Tokyo’s fashionable Shibuya district.
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/ 10 December 2005
Paul last saw the Gulfstream V about 18 months ago. He comes down to Glasgow airport’s planespotters’ club most days. He had not seen the plane before, so he marked the serial number down in his book. At the time, he did not think there was anything unusual about the Gulfstream being ushered to a stand away from public view.
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/ 10 December 2005
The United States administration was facing condemnation on Friday night after it refused to sign up to a United Nations statement intended to reopen worldwide talks on how to tackle climate change. Undeterred, more than 150 other countries were poised on Friday night to take the Kyoto Protocol into a second phase.
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/ 10 December 2005
The Department of Health has finished revising its proposed tougher anti-smoking legislation — and has not backed down on the massive fines lawbreakers will face. Departmental spokesperson Sibani Mngadi said the Bill has been cleared by the department’s legal unit and will be submitted to Cabinet for approval early next year.
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/ 10 December 2005
For 16 days a year, South Africans are asked to become activists against the abuse of women and children. For Shann Sauls, all it took to escape the cycle of violence was for someone to believe her story. Sauls broke her silence in June this year after nearly a decade of being sexually assaulted by her stepfather.
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/ 10 December 2005
With a guilty verdict in only 7% of rape cases, South Africa’s justice system is facing a crisis, former national director of public prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka said on Friday. According to a 2002 study, only 5 000 out of 31 000 reported rape cases made it to trial, he told inmates at Leeuwkop prison.
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/ 10 December 2005
A 49-year-old man arrested in connection with murders and rapes on farms around Philippi in the Western Cape was released on Friday. No evidence could link the man to the incidents, said police spokesperson Captain Elliot Sinyangana. ”He could, however, be re-arrested if new evidence emerges,” he said.
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/ 10 December 2005
A suspected arsonist was arrested on Friday afternoon not far from the blaze that had been raging across the Oudekraal area on the Cape Peninsula since early on Friday morning, Working on Fire spokesperson Val Charlton said. She said a member of the public spotted the man trying to start a bush fire.
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/ 9 December 2005
A South African observer team is to leave this week for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to monitor the country’s first multiparty elections in over four decades, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad said on Tuesday. The 128-strong contingent, which will leave on Wednesday, will be led by Minister of Safety and Security Charles Nqakula.
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/ 9 December 2005
Australia has acknowledged mistakes in a list of people facing sanctions for cooperating with Mugabe’s increasingly authoritarian regime. According to the Associated Press, under-fire Australian ambassador Jon Sheppard said the list had been difficult to compile and may have been released prematurely.