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/ 20 January 2006
Opposition leader Tony Leon on Friday criticised the African National Congress government’s attempts to ”place the judiciary under executive control”. He said the 14th Constitution Amendment Bill would give ”power over the administration and budgets of courts to the minister of justice, effectively putting judges at her mercy”.
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/ 20 January 2006
The third accused in the Hoedspruit lion murder case, Richard Mathebula, has died in hospital, Polokwane police said on Friday. Superintendent Moatshe Ngoepe said Mathebula (36) died in the Nelspruit prison hospital after a long illness. Mathebula fell ill at the start of the trial in January last year.
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/ 20 January 2006
A man was found dead on a New York subway car near the start of the morning rush hour, raising the possibility that his lifeless body rode the train for several hours overnight, authorities said. The body of Eugene Reilly (64), a United States Postal Service employee, was discovered on Thursday.
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/ 20 January 2006
Emergency crews have recovered the bodies of all 42 victims killed when a Slovak military plane crashed into a mountainside in north-eastern Hungary as it flew troops home from peacekeeping duty in Kosovo, officials said on Friday. Only one person of the 43 on board survived, and was able to call his wife on his cellphone from the crash site
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/ 20 January 2006
NOT QUITE THE MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Atom Egoyan’s Where the Truth Lies has the rich potential for suspense, for drama, for comedy and for just about everything, but it fails to deliver, writes Peter Bradshaw.
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/ 20 January 2006
A five-hour SA Rugby president’s council meeting on Friday — supposedly regarding the future of SA Rugby president Brian van Rooyen — was much ado about nothing. The council decided to meet after the resignation of Judge Edwin King from heading an inquiry that was to investigate Van Rooyen on 11 counts of corporate mismanagement.
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/ 20 January 2006
Supporters of activist groups Khulumani and Jubilee South Africa are planning demonstrations in a last-ditch effort to get Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development Bridgette Mabandla to withdraw an opposing affidavit in an apartheid-reparations appeal case due to be heard in the United States next week.
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/ 20 January 2006
The spot price of gold on Friday afternoon climbed to $567 a troy ounce, its highest level since January 1981, on strong buying of the precious metal. The spot price of rhodium climbed to a 14-and-half-year high of $3 140 a troy ounce on Friday on the back of strength in the rest of the precious-metals complex.
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/ 20 January 2006
South Africa’s newest search engine, Jonga, is back on Google’s index after disappearing from it for a week without any explanation. Alistair Carruthers, Jonga’s owner, told the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Friday that Jonga was officially back on Google’s index at 8pm on Thursday night.
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/ 20 January 2006
An Indonesian publisher said on Friday that he will press ahead with a local edition of Playboy despite opposition from Muslim leaders, but promised that the risqué magazine will not contain nudes. Publisher Ponti Carollus said the Indonesian-language magazine will focus on articles rather than photographs.