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/ 24 October 2005
Europe is on high alert after Greece became the first European Union country to confirm a case of bird flu. Greek Minister of Agriculture Evangelos Basiakos reported the case on a turkey farm on the Aegean Sea island of Oinouses, near the coast of Turkey, on Tuesday last week.
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/ 24 October 2005
”South Africa is in the grip of national controversy over so-called delivery problems associated with the new push for public infrastructure investment. This controversy is to be welcomed. The infrastructure-investment initiative is of huge economic importance, and it is crucial that it not fail,” writes Don Ross, professor of economics at the University of Cape Town.
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/ 24 October 2005
”Opposition parties and the media often portray municipal managers as a bunch of inefficient, incompetent and useless idiots who have no interests in the communities they serve. Your article (‘Fat cats take the cream’) is no exception and I object strongly,” writes Khayo Mpungose, the municipal manager of the Ugu District municipality.
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/ 24 October 2005
A recent report suggesting that 5% of adult South Africans belong to a labour union has annoyed Congress of South African Trade Unions economist Neva Makgetla. She argued recently that ”Afrobarometer’s data diverges significantly from that of the government’s Labour Force Survey, which found almost three million union members in March 2005. That comes to 10% of adults.”
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/ 23 October 2005
Former Australian captain Steve Waugh says he felt betrayed by a drinking culture and let down by his brother Mark and Ian Healy on his first cricket tour in charge of the Australian cricket team. Waugh takes aims at several high-profile Australian cricket figures, including Shane Warne and Ian Chappell in his autobiography, Out Of My Comfort Zone.
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/ 23 October 2005
Robert Pires fired Arsenal to a 1-0 win over Manchester City on Saturday but was then forced to publicly apologise after he squandered the opportunity to seal victory with his second penalty of the game. The France winger had already netted one second-half spot-kick, after Thierry Henry had been felled by David James, when Arsenal were awarded a second with 16 minutes remaining for a foul on Dennis Bergkamp.
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/ 23 October 2005
National coach Jake White named a predictable 28-man Springbok squad at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday for the tour of Argentina, Wales and France next month. White stuck mostly to his tried and tested charges for what will undoubtedly be a gruelling three-Test tour, but handed comeback places to Lions fullback Conrad Jantjes and Western Province scrumhalf Bolla Conradie.
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/ 23 October 2005
The international community failed to grasp the scale of the South Asian earthquake and more than two weeks after the disaster, the response is still not enough, a United Nations relief official said on Sunday. Rashid Khalikov, the UN humanitarian aid area coordinator in this quake-hit capital of Pakistani Kashmir, said international relief agencies were ”still coming to grips” with the disaster.
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/ 23 October 2005
Ricky Ponting has defiantly told would-be suitors to his Australian Test cricket captaincy that he’s staying put and not going anywhere. Ponting, who along with team coach John Buchanan received most of the fall-out from Australia’s relinquishing of the Ashes to England last month, says he is running the show and intends to remain captain.