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/ 23 September 2005
Three councillors, a former MP and a Democratic Alliance office worker are set to improve their political fortunes if the DA’s court action against five defectors in Parliament is successful. On Monday the DA will ask the Cape High Court to declare unlawful and invalid the defection of four of its senior black MPs to the African National Congress.
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/ 23 September 2005
Thembi Sibisi encourages the young women she tutors to think of men as asses. ”In a pumpkin field, donkeys take a single bite from each pumpkin and if they are not happy with the taste, move on to the next. They don’t care if hundreds are left to rot. Men do the same. They ‘taste’ women until they find one they want to marry,” Sibisi tells them.
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/ 23 September 2005
Cope Housing Association, the Section 21 company that pioneered cooperative housing in South Africa, is set to close at the end of the month. Residents of the company’s seven cooperatives in the Johannesburg inner city fear eviction and blame the imminent closure on poor management and the negligent use of donor funds.
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/ 23 September 2005
Judgement in the high-profile fraud trial clearing three former executives at the Eastern Cape Development Corporation has strengthened pervasive perceptions in the province that Premier Nosimo Balindlela’s government is using state machinery to purge individuals loyal to former premier Makhenkesi Stofile and provincial African National Congress deputy chairperson Enoch Godongwana.
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/ 23 September 2005
Hurricane Rita weakened further on Friday but United States forecasters said it would still be a dangerous, major storm when it hits land. About one million people have left the area around Houston, Texas, ahead of Rita, including about 15Â 000 who were helped out by authorities, city officials said on Friday.
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/ 23 September 2005
Stray dogs of Jerusalem will soon be pampered in a deluxe municipal dog house complete with air-conditioned kennels, swimming pool, garden and panoramic view of the holy city, a newspaper reported on Friday. Staff will serve up three meals a day to boarders at the establishment.
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/ 23 September 2005
After a hiatus of four years, Nineties pop-rock favourites Collective Soul return with a new album. Guitarist Dean Roland spoke to Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 23 September 2005
The typhoid outbreak in Delmas, Mpumalanga, was caused by human waste in one of the boreholes, government biologists said on Friday. Vusi Kubheka, a bacteria specialist, said Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid, was found in a borehole in the area. ”Salmonella typhoid is carried in human waste,” he said.
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/ 23 September 2005
A bus carrying elderly evacuees from Hurricane Rita caught fire and was rocked by explosions early on Friday on a gridlocked highway near Dallas, killing as many as 24 people, authorities said. ”Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus,” Dallas county sheriff’s department spokesperson Don Peritz said.
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/ 23 September 2005
The deputy chief of Uganda’s notorious rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Vincent Otti, is seeking political asylum in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda’s defence minister said on Friday. Kinshasa has yet to make any decision on the matter, the minister, Amama Mbabazi, told reporters in Kampala.