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/ 21 September 2005
Thousands of Zimbabwean television viewers are deserting that country’s ZTV and opting for foreign networks via satellite as uneconomic licence fees have crippled ZTV’s programming, Zimbabwe’s Herald Online reported on Wednesday. There is a roaring trade in decoders and satellites and their installation.
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/ 21 September 2005
Evidence gathering by a London High Court judge in the corruption and theft case against Zambia’s former president Frederick Chiluba would not undermine Zambia’s sovereignity or its courts. Zambian authorities began pursuing the case against Chiluba after he left office and in December sanctioned the London High Court in a bid to recover property he allegedly acquired with stolen public funds.
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/ 21 September 2005
A third of Nelson Mandela Bay’s population of about 1,3-million is HIV-positive, making the region’s prevalence the highest in the province, the Eastern Province Herald newspaper reported on Wednesday. The figure was revealed in the annual national ante-natal HIV prevalence study.
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/ 21 September 2005
A court in India’s western desert state of Rajasthan fined an Israeli couple $22 for kissing in public after their wedding ceremony at a revered Hindu pilgrimage site, reports said on Wednesday. The court in Pushkar imposed the 1 000 rupee fine on the couple, identified as Opez Alone and Selev Kermit, for "committing an act of indecency".
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/ 21 September 2005
South Africa’s largest listed wine and spirits producer Distell on Wednesday announced that it had entered into an empowerment deal with a broad-based black empowerment consortium to be led by women’s empowerment group Wiphold. Wiphold is a company driven by a dedication to the empowerment of women, and black women in particular.
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/ 21 September 2005
Marissa Naidoo, the 10-year-old child who was kidnapped and murdered last week in Benoni, will be buried in the town on Wednesday, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reports. Meanwhile, investigations have yielded no evidence that her killer worked with an accomplice, East Rand police said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 September 2005
Manchester United forward Wayne Rooney will miss the next two Champions League matches after being sent off at Villarreal last week. Uefa said on Tuesday that the 19-year-old England international will be absent when United hosts Benfica on September 27 and at Old Trafford against Lille on October 18.
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/ 21 September 2005
Wallabies centre Stirling Mortlock and prop Bill Young were dropped on Tuesday from the squad to tour Europe in November and told to work on their conditioning. The pair’s exclusion comes after hooker Jeremey Paul was ruled out of the tour earlier this week because of a neck injury and rookie forward Al Kanaar’s three month suspension for stomping on an opponent’s head.
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/ 21 September 2005
Japan’s Parliament went to work on Wednesday on breaking up the massive post office after the landslide election victory of Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, whose popularity keeps on rising. Hours before the 42-day special session opened, Koizumi’s Cabinet resigned, a formality in the wake of the September 11 general election, in which reforming the Japanese economy was the key issue.
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/ 21 September 2005
South Africa’s Public Investment Corporation (PIC) has concluded negotiations for the acquisition of a 20% stake in state-owned airports operator Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) at a cost of R1,675-billion, the two companies announced on Wednesday. The PIC manages funds on behalf of government employees.