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/ 23 January 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has yet to receive a complaint by the Democratic Alliance about its handling of the Oilgate scandal, spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said on Monday. ”When the said complaint is brought to the NPA’s attention, it will be given due consideration on the basis of its merits,” he said.
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/ 23 January 2006
Alec Smith, the rebellious son of the former prime minister of white-ruled Rhodesia, died of a heart attack at London’s Heathrow airport, family friends said on Sunday. He was 57. Smith suffered the attack at the airport on Thursday as he headed home to Zimbabwe.
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/ 23 January 2006
Brooding American method actor Anthony Franciosa, who was once married to Oscar-winning screen star Shelley Winters, has died, just five days after his famous ex-wife, his publicist said on Friday. Franciosa, who was 77, died on Thursday in a hospital in Los Angeles.
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/ 23 January 2006
Janette Carter, the last surviving child of country music’s founding Carter family, who in recent years preserved her parents’ old-time style with weekly performances, has died. She was 82. Family members said Carter, who had battled Parkinson’s disease and other illnesses, was taken to the hospital on Tuesday.
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/ 23 January 2006
The imminent fight for the presidency of the South African Rugby Union between incumbent president Brian van Rooyen and the man opposing him, KwaZulu-Natal Rugby Union president Oregan Hoskins, will not end in a blood bath, Hoskins said on Monday. Hoskins confirmed last week Friday that he would be contesting SA Rugby’s presidency.
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/ 23 January 2006
African leaders began their annual summit on Monday in disarray, failing to resolve dissension over Sudan’s bid to chair the 53-state body while it is involved in the conflict in western Darfur. The traditional handover to the incoming chairperson was delayed until after a scheduled Monday-afternoon private meeting of leaders.
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/ 23 January 2006
A comedy stunt in which scores of people rode the New York subway in their underwear ended with the arrest of eight panty-proud participants, police said on Monday. A police spokesperson said all had been released after being issued summonses for ”disorderly conduct”.
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/ 23 January 2006
Thirty-two people were killed and another 21 were injured when two buses collided head-on in south-western Brazil, police said on Monday. The crash occurred shortly before midnight on Sunday on the Raposo Tavares highway in Regente Feijo, about 840km west of Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo state police Major Claudemir Alcarria said.
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/ 23 January 2006
Despite a well-managed start to the 2006 school year, problems remain in the primary-school sector, Minister of Education Naledi Pandor said on Monday. ”The gross enrolment rate is excellent, but reading and writing skills are not,” she said at a ceremony to rename Ga-Rankuwa’s Agisanang Primary School the Tim Modise Primary School.
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/ 23 January 2006
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Political parties have until Tuesday to rectify mistakes on their lists of proportional representation candidates for the March 1 election, the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) said at Monday’s handover to Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa of the 2004 electoral atlas on poll behaviour in South Africa.