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/ 20 September 2005
A man attempting to walk the length of Britain stark naked for a second time was arrested once again — seconds after walking out of jail, police revealed on Monday. So-called "Naked Rambler" Stephen Gough (46) was stopped by officers as he left the gates of Edinburgh’s Saughton prison on Friday.
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/ 20 September 2005
British troops used tanks on Monday night to break down the walls of a prison in the southern Iraqi city of Basra and free two undercover British soldiers who were seized earlier in the day by local police. The governor of Basra on Monday night condemned the ”barbaric aggression” of British forces in storming the jail.
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/ 20 September 2005
A mother and her two children died in a fire in a house in Troyeville early on Tuesday morning, Johannesburg emergency services said. Spokesperson Malcolm Midgley said the father, suffering from serious smoke inhalation, was taken to a local hospital. The fire apparently started in a television room.
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/ 20 September 2005
Assisted by buoyant market conditions and the group’s diversified income streams, financial-services group FirstRand boosted headline earnings by 32% to R7,6-billion for the year to the end of June. This translated into headline earnings per share of 146,2 cents, which were 32% higher than last year’s earnings of 111 cents per share.
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/ 20 September 2005
Rapidly growing but still small, the black middle class is steadily spreading its spending influence and finding itself socially, research released over the past year shows. A new report, <i>Lost in Transformation South Africa’s Emerging African Middle Class?</i>,attempts to capture the economic and social nuances of South Africans.
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/ 20 September 2005
The discovery that the deities of ancient Palestine were female ought to be good news for all of humanity, not just women. Even the increasingly beleaguered monotheistic religions might find reason to be pleased, for it gives them opportunity to reinvent a deity that will represent the yin and the yang.
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/ 20 September 2005
Two European airlines will allow passengers late next year to use their own cellphones on commercial flights within western Europe, a Geneva-based technology firm said on Tuesday. TAP Air Portugal and British carrier bmi both have agreed to introduce OnAir’s voice and text service for cellphones in separate three-month trial runs.
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/ 20 September 2005
There are a number of disturbing trends currently sweeping through the black economic empowerment landscape. One is the intransigence of white capital. The other is what company directors would call dereliction of duty by both the government and the private sector.
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/ 20 September 2005
China is a nation on the move. But should its economic growth be cause for alarm? Other nations have risen fast — Britain during the industrial revolution, the United States at the turn of the century, and Japan during and after the 1960s. However, it took Britain 100 years to rise; 60 for the US and 30 for Japan. It seems China will be transformed in just a couple of decades.
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/ 20 September 2005
Four years ago the dust was still settling on Lower Manhattan. The Twin Towers of the World Trade Centre had been reduced to rubble and the United States was in shock. Rightly, there were fears for the health not just of the US economy but also that of the rest of the world.