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/ 27 September 2005
A massive brain drain is depriving Zimbabwe of health professionals, teachers, accountants, scientists and engineers, according to a government report quoted in a newspaper on Tuesday. Half a million Zimbabweans, mainly professionals in the health and education sector, have migrated, according to the study by the Scientific and Industrial Research Centre.
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/ 27 September 2005
More than one million children, mostly from poor homes, are to be affected by cuts in the Eastern Cape’s school-feeding scheme, the Herald Online reported on Tuesday. The programme will be scaled down from five to three days a week because the education department does not have money to run the scheme every day.
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/ 27 September 2005
The world has sufficient oil resources but needs capacity to explore and deliver the product, Saudi Arabia’s minister of petroleum and mineral resources said on Tuesday. ”There will be no scarcity of petroleum in the foreseeable future,” he told the 18th World Petroleum Congress in Johannesburg.
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/ 27 September 2005
Manchester United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz has slammed the fans who booed manager Alex Ferguson off the pitch after their 2-1 defeat to Blackburn as stupid. ”People have been crying out for us to use a 4-4-2 formation and we played with that system for the first time and lost,” he said.
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/ 27 September 2005
Tiger Woods and his fellow United States golfers proved they have passion for playing as a team, winning the Presidents Cup in dramatic fashion to boost the event’s status compared to the Ryder Cup. Chris DiMarco’s dramatic birdie putt on the 18th hole to beat Australian Stuart Appleby one-up on Sunday gave the US men an 18-and-a-half — 15 and-a-half victory, the first by a US PGA squad in a team event since the 2000 Presidents Cup.
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/ 27 September 2005
All Blacks Doug Howlett and Marty Holah have renewed their contracts with the New Zealand Rugby Union for at least another two years, taking them past the next World Cup in France. Winger Howlett has committed himself to Auckland and the All Blacks until the end of 2009.
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/ 27 September 2005
Up to 15km of a protective dyke have been destroyed by Typhoon Damrey in the two provinces in northern Vietnam hardest-hit by the storm, local officials said on Tuesday afternoon. Tens of thousands of houses in Thanh Hoa and Nam Dinh have also reportedly been destroyed, and in China the storm killed at leatst 16 people.
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/ 27 September 2005
The Kruger National Park wants to shoot up to 6Â 000 elephants as part of a national culling programme that could start next winter, the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> has learnt. Thousands of elephants in other state and private reserves around the country will also be culled, if a South African National Parks report on elephant management is endorsed by the public.
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/ 27 September 2005
South Africans are lagging far behind the Australians when it comes to investing directly into shares on the JSE. In South Africa about 200 000 private investors invest directly into shares rather than through mutual funds or pension funds. That figure for Australia is 5,7-million. There are many lessons South Africa can learn from the Australian stock exchange.
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/ 27 September 2005
The leader of a splinter group of Rwandan Hutu rebels operating in the volatile eastern Democratic Republic of Congo has said his fighters are disarming and preparing to return home. Seraphin Bizimungu said members of his breakaway faction of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, had turned in their weapons and begun educational courses to ready themselves for re-integration into Rwandan society.