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/ 14 September 2005
The Freedom of Expression Institute (FXI) condemned Telkom on Wednesday for asking police to break up a small picket held on Monday outside Telkom’s head office in Pretoria. In a press statement on Thursday, the FXI said: "Telkom’s attempt to stop the picket by calling on the police to intervene was unjust."
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/ 14 September 2005
Britain’s government was on Wednesday launching a campaign to publicise its new ”gay marriage” law, which will give same-sex couples many of the same rights as married people. The first such partnerships will be sealed just before Christmas, with pop singer Elton John and his partner set to become one of the first ”married” gay couples.
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/ 14 September 2005
More than a dozen explosions ripped through the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 152 people and wounding 542 in a deadly series of attacks that began with a huge suicide car bombing that targeted labourers assembled to find work for the day. Al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility.
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/ 14 September 2005
Portugal’s biggest bank robber yet, on the run since escaping prison in March, has been recaptured by police after he returned to the country to rent a home, police and reports said on Tuesday. Manuel Simoes netted more than €500 000 (R3,91-million) in 29 bank robberies carried out between 1998 and 2000.
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/ 14 September 2005
Visitors to Croatia’s Zagreb zoo can now experience what it feels like to be a caged animal, zoo management announced on Tuesday. People will be able to walk through two cages and feel what it’s like to be held in captivity, as well as learn why humans are "the most dangerous species on the planet".
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/ 14 September 2005
The Independent Democrats suffered a setback on Wednesday with the defection of two of its seven MPs, Cecil Burgess and Chris Wang, to the African National Congress. Western Cape MPL Mzwandile Manjiya also defected to the ANC along with Burgess and Wang.
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/ 14 September 2005
Western Cape police are investigating cases of murder, assault, arson and public violence after a crowd turned violent in St Helena Bay on Tuesday evening. The violence followed a gathering by about 300 people in Laingville, St Helena Bay, at about 6pm, Inspector Bernadine Steyn said.
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/ 14 September 2005
So, a freelance cameraman films a National Women’s Day address by Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. He captures people protesting in favour of her predecessor, Jacob Zuma. South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) news fails to broadcast the incident.
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/ 14 September 2005
Crime levels in South Africa are decreasing but negative perceptions on crime have doubled since 1994, a conference on prison overcrowding heard on Wednesday. ”Crime in general has come down between 1994 and 2004. The public perception is contrary to that,” said Anton du Plessis, head of the crime and justice programme at the Institute for Security Studies.
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/ 14 September 2005
South Africa’s state-owned oil and gas entity, PetroSA, has posted a pre-tax profit of R1,8-billion for the financial year ended March 31 2005, a substantial improvement on the R240-million recorded in 2004, on the back of record high international oil prices, a firmer rand and strict cost containment.