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/ 30 September 2005
Some of David’s* earliest memories are of huddling around a paraffin stove, eating his grandmother’s fishcakes, while his grandfather kept him enthralled with ghost stories and old fishermen’s legends. David is one of the many Rastafarian fishermen who live in the informal settlement of Hangberg, above Hout Bay harbour
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/ 30 September 2005
More than 20 officials in the Limpopo department of health are facing a disciplinary inquiry after an audit report alleged that they irregularly received contracts worth millions of rands from the department. Recently, a departmental spokesperson confirmed that the officials, would be hauled before a disciplinary hearing on charges of irregularities and gross misconduct.
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/ 30 September 2005
British artist Patrick Caulfield, noted for his sparse, precise studies of interiors and still life, has died, a gallery said on Friday. He was 69. Caulfield died on Thursday in London. Coming out in the 1960s generation of artists, Caulfield’s bold images were often associated with pop art.
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/ 30 September 2005
Friday’s Constitutional Court judgement on medicine-pricing regulations should be interpreted as a victory for the Department of Health and citizens, Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang said. ”The judgement cannot be interpreted to say the department was wrong,” she told reporters in Pretoria. The court, she said, merely identified ”a few minor defects” in the regulations.
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/ 30 September 2005
Sunni-led insurgents killed at least nine people, including women and children, with a car bomb in a crowded vegetable market on Friday in the second blast against Shi’ite civilians in as many days, police said. The death toll rose to nearly 100 from the previous day’s coordinated string of suicide bombings and mortars in another town.
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/ 30 September 2005
Cooler, wetter air and calmer wind helped thousands of firefighters battling a wildfire early on Friday that has pushed hundreds of people from their homes in the hills and canyons along Los Angeles’s north-western edge. The fire, which has burned an estimated 8 300ha, was 20% contained on Friday morning.
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/ 30 September 2005
For years it remained a rumour, and at worst a suspicion, that the telephones of certain individuals in Ghana, mainly politicians, were being bugged. Now, however, a dramatic ”confession” by two journalists that they have the capacity to do it — and, indeed, have been doing it — has triggered an uproar in the West African country.
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/ 30 September 2005
German Chancellor Gerhard Schröder and his conservative rival, Angela Merkel, were back on the campaign trail on Friday ahead of weekend voting in the eastern city of Dresden, which will complete the country’s inconclusive general election. About 220 000 voters will go to the polls on Sunday.
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/ 30 September 2005
In what must rank as a world record, animal-welfare officers in France have discovered a total of 340 dogs living in a single house near the north-eastern city of Nancy. The dogs were confined to the first floor of the house in the village of Marbache and had been interbreeding for years, officials said.
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/ 30 September 2005
When an 11-year-old boy sneaked his first kiss under a British railway bridge in 1965, he most likely never expected it to be front-page news 40 years later. But then he did choose British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s future wife. Stephen Smerdon woke up on Thursday to find his fledgling love life of four decades ago splashed across newspapers.