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/ 17 October 2005
In the week of AgriSA’s annual conference, the Mail & Guardian speaks to chairperson Lourie Bosman about the recent land summit and whether farmers are doing enough to facilitate land reform in South Africa.
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/ 17 October 2005
A year after Harrismith’s impoverished Intabazwe township erupted against poor service delivery, the community has vowed they will not vote, or will vote for opposition parties, in the upcoming local government elections. They insist that promises made by the African National Congress-led council have been dishonoured.
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/ 17 October 2005
Less than 5% of pupils receive exemptions from school fees, while the poor borrow R2,7-billion a year to spend on education, it emerged from Human Rights Commission(HRC) hearings recently. The points are contained in a submission by the Education Law Project of Wits University’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies at HRC hearings on the right to basic education, which the Constitution guarantees.
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/ 17 October 2005
Easynet said on Monday that it had received an approach which may lead to a takeover, amid a report that British satellite broadcaster BSkyB wanted to snap up the London-listed telecoms group. <i>The Sunday Telegraph</i> newspaper had reported that BSkyB was to muscle in on the lucrative internet broadband market.
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/ 17 October 2005
The South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) on Monday welcomed the efforts by the Department of Transport, nationally and provincially, to encourage the general public to use public transport by pronouncing October "transport month".
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/ 17 October 2005
China on Monday strongly protested over Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi’s controversial visit to a war shrine, calling it a ”serious provocation” ”The Chinese government firmly opposes Prime Minister Koizumi worshipping the Yasukuni Shrine, which enshrines A-grade war criminals,” China’s ambassador to Japan Wang Yi said in Tokyo, according to the Xinhua news agency.
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/ 17 October 2005
Leg-spin terrors Stuart MacGill and Shane Warne spun Australia to a comprehensive 210-run victory over the World XI in the Super Test at the Sydney Cricket Ground on Monday. The Australians wrapped up another conclusive triumph following last week’s 3-0 clean sweep of the one-dayers, ending the match just over an hour after lunch on the fourth day of the scheduled six-day Test.
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/ 17 October 2005
Annika Sorenstam’s march to another LPGA milestone was overshadowed on Sunday by the disqualification of teen sensation Michelle Wie in her first professional start. Initially lost in the hype surrounding Wie’s professional debut, Sorenstam was the undisputed star on Sunday as she posted an eight-shot victory at the 000 Samsung World Championship, while Wie was disqualified.
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/ 17 October 2005
Heavy rains receded on Monday in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, giving hope that efforts could resume to bring aid to the millions of homeless survivors of a monster earthquake that killed an estimated 54Â 000 people. Two strong aftershocks struck the region in the early morning, including one with a magnitude of 4,5, but there was no immediate report of damage.
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/ 17 October 2005
Saddam Hussein, the ousted dictator who delivered a brutal brand of justice to Iraqis during his 24-year reign, faces trial on Wednesday by an Iraqi tribunal which could sentence him to death if he is convicted. Rights groups have amply documented his ruthlessness and cruelty, and the court will attempt to make him answer charges of crimes against humanity during a Shi’ite civilian massacre in 1982.