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/ 23 September 2005
Judgement in the high-profile fraud trial clearing three former executives at the Eastern Cape Development Corporation has strengthened pervasive perceptions in the province that Premier Nosimo Balindlela’s government is using state machinery to purge individuals loyal to former premier Makhenkesi Stofile and provincial African National Congress deputy chairperson Enoch Godongwana.
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/ 23 September 2005
Hurricane Rita weakened further on Friday but United States forecasters said it would still be a dangerous, major storm when it hits land. About one million people have left the area around Houston, Texas, ahead of Rita, including about 15Â 000 who were helped out by authorities, city officials said on Friday.
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/ 23 September 2005
Stray dogs of Jerusalem will soon be pampered in a deluxe municipal dog house complete with air-conditioned kennels, swimming pool, garden and panoramic view of the holy city, a newspaper reported on Friday. Staff will serve up three meals a day to boarders at the establishment.
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/ 23 September 2005
After a hiatus of four years, Nineties pop-rock favourites Collective Soul return with a new album. Guitarist Dean Roland spoke to Riaan Wolmarans.
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/ 23 September 2005
The typhoid outbreak in Delmas, Mpumalanga, was caused by human waste in one of the boreholes, government biologists said on Friday. Vusi Kubheka, a bacteria specialist, said Salmonella typhi, the bacteria that causes typhoid, was found in a borehole in the area. ”Salmonella typhoid is carried in human waste,” he said.
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/ 23 September 2005
A bus carrying elderly evacuees from Hurricane Rita caught fire and was rocked by explosions early on Friday on a gridlocked highway near Dallas, killing as many as 24 people, authorities said. ”Deputies were unable to get everyone off the bus,” Dallas county sheriff’s department spokesperson Don Peritz said.
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/ 23 September 2005
The deputy chief of Uganda’s notorious rebel Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), Vincent Otti, is seeking political asylum in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Uganda’s defence minister said on Friday. Kinshasa has yet to make any decision on the matter, the minister, Amama Mbabazi, told reporters in Kampala.
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/ 23 September 2005
Six Iraqi civilians were killed and 10 wounded on Friday in a bomb blast on a public bus in Baghdad as supporters and opponents of the draft Constitution started in earnest to campaign ahead of the October 15 referendum. United States President George Bush has warned that Iraq should brace for more violence in the next three weeks.
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/ 23 September 2005
Members of Ethiopia’s Jewish community in Addis Ababa complained on Friday that police had prevented them from continuing a hunger strike to press their demand that they be taken to Israel. Members of the Bete Israel community, the so-called Falashas or Ethiopian Jews, had been on hunger strike for three days.
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/ 23 September 2005
Authorities in Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland said on Friday they have arrested a senior al-Qaeda operative allegedly in the region to organise attacks on local leaders and foreigners. The operative was arrested along with two other al-Qaeda members after an overnight shootout in the capital, Hargeisa.