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/ 20 October 2005
Johannesburg police do not want to comment on claims that slain mining entrepreneur Brett Kebble’s car was taken to panel beaters and cleaned before forensic tests had been carried out. Sources close to the investigation said that Kebble’s Mercedes was out of police control or custody for ”a significant period of time” after the murder.
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/ 20 October 2005
South Africa’s online publishing industry grew 13,8% in local readership to 1,98-million users and 97,37-million page impressions in the third quarter of 2005 compared with the second quarter, the Online Publishers Association said on Thursday. The latest Nielsen/Netratings audited figures also indicate a large increase in international visitors to South African websites.
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/ 20 October 2005
David Beckham and Jonathan Woodgate made Real Madrid history on Wednesday as it was the first time that two Englishmen had scored in the same game for the Spanish giants. The England internationals, with Woodgate hoping to soon be back in England coach Sven Goran Eriksson’s plans after 17 months out injured, scored Real’s first and last goals in their 4-1 Champions League thrashing of Rosenborg.
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/ 20 October 2005
Australia said on Thursday it was confident the Indonesian military was not involved in recent violence on the East Timor border and rejected a report that militia activity in the area was increasing. Australia, which angered Jakarta by supporting East Timor’s successful push for independence, said it had received no reports of Indonesia provoking border violence.
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/ 20 October 2005
Uganda on Thursday sought approval from its neighbours to send troops into the Democratic Republic of Congo to hunt members of the Lord Resistance’s Army (LRA) seeking refuge there, Foreign Minister Sam Kuteesa said. ”The LRA is a terrorist organisation which has been operating out of Sudan for the last 10 years, now they are moving into DRC which brings a new dynamic,” Kuteesa said.
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/ 20 October 2005
The Israeli military has blocked Palestinians from driving on the main artery through the West Bank in a first step towards what Israeli human rights groups say is total ”road apartheid” being enforced throughout the occupied territory. The army sealed off access to Route 60 after the fatal shooting of three settlers near Bethlehem on Sunday.
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/ 20 October 2005
Taxi operators told Transport Minister Jeff Radebe on Thursday that they would accept the taxi recapitalisation programme if they were given subsidies on top of the R50 000 scrapping allowance for their unroadworthy taxis. ”If we get rid of our taxis and get the R50 000 scrapping allowance which we can spend as a deposit for a new taxi, we won’t be able to make ends meet,” said Tom Muofhe, president of the SA National Taxi Council.
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/ 20 October 2005
Human rights activist group Khulumani International is to appeal against a New York court judgement dismissing an application for reparations from international companies that did business in South Africa during the apartheid era. The appeal will be heard in the Second Circuit Court of Appeal in New York on November 5.
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/ 20 October 2005
Ethiopian children are being sold for as little as $1,20 (about R7,90) to work as domestic workers or prostitutes, the International Organisation for Migration said on Wednesday. Up to 20 000 children, some 10 years old, are sold each year by their parents and trafficked by unscrupulous brokers to work in cities across Ethiopia.
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/ 20 October 2005
Makarem al-Deiri is standing for election to the Egyptian Parliament next month after a long academic career, but she makes no bones about her view that a woman’s place is in the home. The 55-year-old mother of seven insists there is no point arguing for sexual equality, as such a demand ”goes against nature”.