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/ 18 October 2005
At the northern edge of Jerusalem, three towering concrete walls are converging around a rapidly built maze of cages, turnstiles and bomb-proof rooms. The Israeli military built the crossing without fanfare over recent months, along with other similar posts along the length of the vast new ”security barrier” that is enveloping Jerusalem.
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/ 18 October 2005
More than 100 African migrants detained by Moroccan police as they tried to get into the Spanish enclave of Melilla have been rescued after being dumped in the middle of the Sahara desert, according to Spanish media reports. The migrants said they had been robbed of their money by Moroccan police and then bussed into the desert.
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/ 18 October 2005
The European Union and the United States expressed hope on Monday that they could reach a deal on ”open skies” by next month, bringing greater competition to the civil aviation industry on both sides of the Atlantic. EU governments, including Britain, threw out a brokered agreement in June last year.
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/ 18 October 2005
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The African National Congress will not punish the ”unacceptable behaviour” of its members after former deputy president Jacob Zuma’s Durban court appearance, but warned that those caught misbehaving in future will be disciplined. ”The organisation takes strong exception to such conduct,” ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said.
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/ 18 October 2005
Listed food retailer Pick ‘n Pay has reported a 16,7% rise in its headline earnings per share for the six months to the end of August 2005 to 55,31 cents from 47,41 cents a year earlier. The company declared an interim dividend up 17,7% to 23,3 cents per share, compared with the 19,8 cents declared at the interim stage in 2005.
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/ 18 October 2005
Leading South African companies are world beaters in the profit stakes. The Cabinet was recently handed a document by the Department Trade and Industry, which calls for new interventions, including by the competition authorities, to lower prices charged by top corporations.
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/ 18 October 2005
Absa’s claim that it had no knowledge of irregular lending practices at its Zimbabwe associate, the Jewel Bank, is ”nonsense”, says a senior employee formerly stationed at the Harare bank. In August, reports revealed that the Jewel Bank, in which Absa has a 25% stake, had helped Zimbabwe’s Central Intelligence Organisation acquire a stake in two privately owned newspapers.
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/ 18 October 2005
On paper, regional integration in Southern Africa has made advances — with countries being knit together by protocols and agreements of every stripe. It’s a pity there isn’t a similarly comprehensive network of roads and railways, say transport analysts — who point out that true regional integration will remain a pipe dream if goods cannot move efficiently between Southern African states.
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/ 18 October 2005
Only a handful of scientists have security clearance to access the laboratory at the United States government’s Centres for Disease Control and Prevention. Before entering, they must pull on protective hoods, don breathing apparatus and pass through electronic fingerprint and retina scanners to prove their identity. Inside the lab lies a batch of a virus that more than justifies the extreme level of security.
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/ 18 October 2005
The Malawi Council of Churches has threatened to enter the country’s National Assembly draped in gowns to protest against opposition moves to impeach President Bingu wa Mutharika and to press politicians to focus on ”problems besetting the people”. It is estimated that up to 4,2-million Malawi citizens, of a population of 12-million, face serious food shortages.