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/ 21 September 2005
Roads leading in and out of Mpumalanga’s Moutse area were reopened on Wednesday following a protest over demarcations, police said. Earlier, residents of Moutse threatened to set the local magistrate’s court alight if people arrested on charges of public violence on Tuesday were not released from custody.
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/ 21 September 2005
European Union diplomats hammered out a new accord on Turkey on Wednesday, overcoming last-minute objections from Cyprus, but the bloc is still battling to clear the way for membership talks with Ankara next month. While progress was made, clear strains remained over whether the vast Muslim state can ever join the bloc, with Austria notably demanding that Turkey be offered an alternative to EU entry.
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/ 21 September 2005
Nigerian separatist militants warned foreign workers to flee the Niger Delta on Wednesday as they threatened to retaliate for the arrest of their leader by attacking oil wells and pipelines. The leader of the banned Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force, Alhaji Mujahid Dokubo Asari, was ”invited for questioning” in Abuja on Tuesday.
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/ 21 September 2005
Two-thirds of Swedes secretly read their partner’s cellphone SMSs, in particular when he or she nips off to the loo, a study published on Wednesday showed. Sixty-four percent of those questioned by mobile portal Halebop for Swedish operator TeliaSonera said they read their partners’ SMSs purely out of curiosity.
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/ 21 September 2005
With the excitement mounting ahead of Ireland’s Gaelic football final this weekend, one man has enlisted some extra supporters to back his favourite team — the animals on his farm. He has painted 30 ducks, 10 sheep, two cows, three goats and several geese in Kerry’s green-and-gold colours.
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/ 21 September 2005
West Indian cricketing legend Brian Lara on Tuesday met another hero, former South African president Nelson Mandela.
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/ 21 September 2005
The South African Police Service announced downward trends in 17 of the country’s most serious crime categories on Wednesday. Murder dropped by 5,6% in 2004 and 2005 from the previous financial year, attempted murder by 1,8% and serious assault by 4,5%, it announced in Pretoria.
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/ 21 September 2005
Six police officers at the Booysens police station in southern Johannesburg have been arrested on charges of corruption and assault, police said on Wednesday. This follows a recent television exposé.
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/ 21 September 2005
Botswana is embroiled in a new controversy over the fate of its San Bushmen after the government decided to close down part of the Kalahari game reserve, prompting clashes. British-based Survival International last month accused the government of shutting down the reserve as part of a stepped-up campaign ”to remove the Bushmen and end their way of life”.
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/ 21 September 2005
The mother of one of the sailors who was on the Durban yacht Moquini when it went missing in the Indian Ocean last week is positive her son and the rest of the crew are fine. Her son and the crew were participating in the Mauritius-to-Durban yacht race when they lost communication with race organisers last Tuesday.