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/ 20 September 2005
Zimbabwe were put out for only 161 runs by India at Harare Sports Club on Tuesday in their first innings of the second Test. In reply India had not lost a wicket by the tea break and have made 43 runs in reply, leaving a minor deficit of 119 for the lead.
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/ 20 September 2005
The presumed suicide bombers who killed themselves and 52 other people in London on July 7 checked out their targets a week beforehand with an apparent dummy run of the attack. Grainy stills from closed-circuit television cameras issued by the police showed three of the four men assumed to be the attackers gathering together before heading into the capital on June 28.
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/ 20 September 2005
Sales of Zimbabwe’s major export, Virginia flue-cured tobacco, officially closed on Tuesday after fetching about -million (about R661-million) on a crop that was just a fraction of what was harvested before the seizure of 5Â 000 white-owned commercial farms.
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/ 20 September 2005
Filmmakers in Muslim-majority Bangladesh who fail to heed government calls to ”cleanse obscenity” from the nation’s film industry will face up to three years in jail. Abu Abdullah, vice-chairperson of the Bangladesh Film Censor Board, said a law placed before Parliament earlier this month would plug holes in existing legislation and leave filmmakers facing prison sentences of between one and three years.
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/ 20 September 2005
Nationwide Airlines has accused trade union Solidarity of deliberately misleading workers around a pay dispute at the carrier. Financial director Peter Griffiths said the airline believed that Solidarity’s intention to call a strike at Nationwide had been taken ”without proper consideration”, and was ”irresponsible and mischievous”.
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/ 20 September 2005
Europe’s newspapers agreed on Tuesday that Germany was in an ”awful mess” after a weekend election left it politically adrift rather than at the helm of a long-anticipated economic recovery. Editorials in Germany focused on the likely makeup of a new government, with many facing the dreaded possibility of a so-called grand coalition.
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/ 20 September 2005
The state-owned Cape Town Community Housing Company (CTCHC) has failed to deliver on its promise for quality, low-cost housing, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Tuesday. Leon said the City of Cape Town and the CTCHC have to deliver on their promises of quality housing.
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/ 20 September 2005
The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Tuesday it is sending 100 000 malaria treatments to Niger, concerned that malnutrition in the sub-Saharan country could worsen the child death rate from the disease. ”Even under ordinary conditions in Niger, 50% of all deaths among children are from malaria,” the WHO said.
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/ 20 September 2005
Good news travels fast in the Williams household, with debutant Venus hyped up about this week’s China Open after glowing reports on the event from her 2004 defending champion sister Serena. ”It’s become a legend in our house, it’s hard to separate myth from reality about this tournament,” said treble Wimbledon winner Venus.
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/ 20 September 2005
Eviction raids on two buildings in Hillbrow on Tuesday were merely punishing the poorest of the poor and not addressing their need for housing, a member of the Wits Law School said. Stuart Wilson from the university’s Centre for Applied Legal Studies said people living in ”bad” buildings had a constitutional right to have their housing needs addressed by the state.