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/ 22 September 2005
South Africa needed more black accountants, President Thabo Mbeki told the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (Saica) on Wednesday evening. Mbeki was speaking at a dinner marking Saica’s 25th anniversary. ”I think we will agree that we should mobilise more resources” to help train black accountants, Mbeki said.
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/ 22 September 2005
Hundreds of police officers and civilians marched in Basra on Wednesday denouncing ”British aggression” in the raid to free the two undercover soldiers arrested by Iraqi police on Monday. The protesters, some carrying handguns and AK-47s, waved banners calling for the two men be tried as terrorists.
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/ 22 September 2005
Tens of thousands of people along the United States Gulf Coast grabbed their most prized possessions, boarded up their homes and fled on Wednesday in the face of the onslaught from Hurricane Rita, a category-five storm that could rival Hurricane Katrina in intensity when it makes landfall this weekend.
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/ 22 September 2005
Middle-class mothers in France could be paid up to â,¬1Â 000 (R7Â 700) a month — almost the minimum wage — to stop work for a year and have a third child under a government scheme to boost the birth rate, already among the highest in Europe.
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/ 21 September 2005
Capital gains tax (CGT) will have been in effect for four years next month, and people are starting to feel the effects of the tax on their profits. ”In the first few years asset prices had not risen that much, but now we are seeing a boom in both the property market and the share market and the capital gains are much higher,” says Tony Barrett, regional manager at BJM Private Client Services.
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/ 21 September 2005
Nearly 3Â 500 fishermen were missing in the Bay of Bengal on Wednesday as more than 200 fishing trawlers capsized in turbulent waves after setting sail from the southern Bangladesh coast three days ago, officials said.
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/ 21 September 2005
A Kanhym Estates worker was killed and four others wounded in Mpumalanga on Wednesday when security guards at the company opened fire on protesting workers. About 500 people were protesting for a wage increase at the farming company’s premises in Middelburg.
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/ 21 September 2005
The governments of Britain and Iraq insisted on Wednesday that recent tension over a British army operation in Basra will not have an adverse effect on relations. Speaking at a joint news conference with British Defence Secretary John Reid, Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim Jaafari described the events in Basra as ”regrettable”.
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/ 21 September 2005
In a second day of bluster following a landmark disarmament accord, North Korea on Wednesday threatened retaliation if the United States carries out what the North claims are plans to annihilate it in a nuclear attack. At six-nation talks in Beijing on Monday, North Korea had promised to give up its nuclear-weapons programme.