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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.
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/ 21 September 2005
The first of what Absa says are many benefits in store for its private banking and affluent clients as a result of the acquisition of a majority stake in the South African group by British banking group Barclays in July this year were revealed on Wednesday. Absa is launching the first two offerings in a series of joint lifestyle solutions.
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/ 21 September 2005
The lesson to be learnt from the life of Holocaust survivor and indefatigable Nazi hunter Simon Wiesenthal is that ”justice does not have a sell-by date”, the South African Jewish Board of Deputies (SAJBD) said on Wednesday. ”It has to be striven for unceasingly,” said Michael Bagraim, the national chairperson of the SAJBD.
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/ 21 September 2005
Two members of Algeria’s security services were killed and five injured when a mine went off as an army patrol passed by, newspapers said on Wednesday. The incident occurred in the Msila region, 245km south of the capital, Algiers, the report said.
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/ 21 September 2005
Storm-weary residents prepared to flee devastated New Orleans on Wednesday as powerful Hurricane Rita threatened the United States Gulf Coast three weeks after Katrina’s deadly passage. US meteorologists upgraded Rita early on Wednesday to a powerful category-three category on the five-level hurricane-intensity scale.
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/ 21 September 2005
A group of Somali asylum seekers have arrived in Zimbabwe after a six-month trek over 4 000km from their Horn of African nation, a newspaper reported on Wednesday. said ”at least” 26 Somalis, including two women, had surrendered to police in Harare on Monday after ”trickling into the country” in smaller groups from Mozambique.
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/ 21 September 2005
Bush Bucks coach Professor Ngubane dropped a bombshell on Wednesday when he announced his resignation following a string of poor results. The announcement came ahead of Bucks’ crucial Premier Soccer League game against Ajax Cape Town at Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 21 September 2005
Being friends with George makes certain demands upon one’s patience. Most of the time, in one-to-one conversation, he’s chatty enough, and sometimes even witty. He’s prone to sudden outbursts of hostility, and to interrupting serious conversations about politics or morality to yell incomprehensibly about Joan Crawford or The Da Vinci Code.
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/ 21 September 2005
World champion Valentino Rossi says he is confident of capturing his seventh MotoGP world title in Malaysia this weekend, after crashing out of the Japanese Grand Prix last week. ”I am not feeling any more pressure than before and I will be riding to win at every round,” the 26-year-old Yamaha rider said in an e-mail.