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/ 10 September 2005
Hurricane Katrina is a reminder that all humanity needs to achieve the United Nations Millennium Development Goals, President Thabo Mbeki wrote in his weekly newsletter on Friday. He quoted reports saying poorer citizens of New Orleans were more vulnerable to the effects of Katrina than their wealthier compatriots.
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/ 10 September 2005
The Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs is disappointed at elements in the Transvaal Agricultural Union (TAU) South Africa who seem to cling to false assumptions about land reform, the department said on Friday. The department’s comment followed a two-day TAU SA conference in Pretoria.
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/ 10 September 2005
A security guard was arrested on Friday for allegedly helping robbers make off with R6-million after a patrol company was robbed in Nelspruit, Mpumalanga police said. Captain Leonard Hlathi said a cash-in-transit vehicle had just delivered the money at D and L Patrol offices on Louis Trichardt Street when the robbers arrived.
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/ 10 September 2005
Ukraine’s ”orange revolution” was dramatically unravelling on Friday night when one of its principal icons, Yulia Timoshenko, responded to her dismissal as prime minister by vowing to take her supporters into opposition against her former ally, President Viktor Yushchenko.
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/ 10 September 2005
Michael Brown, the head of the Bush administration’s disaster relief effort, was relieved on Friday of his role coordinating the response to Hurricane Katrina, after allegations that he had embroidered his professional record and had no emergency management experience. Meanwhile, hopes are rising that Katrina’s human cost might not be as high as some local officials had first feared.
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/ 9 September 2005
The deputy leader of the Independent Democrats, Themba Sono, crossed the floor to a fledgling party just hours after the Cape High Court reversed his expulsion from the ID on Friday. The ID had feared that Sono would defect. ”I have joined the Alliance of Free Democrats,” said Sono in a media statement.
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/ 9 September 2005
The president of the South African Rugby Union, Brian van Rooyen, survived an eight-hour president’s council meeting on Friday, and remains at the helm of rugby in South Africa. Van Rooyen confirmed that the council agreed unanimously to accept the recommendations of the Brandt-Heunis report on the affairs of rugby.
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/ 9 September 2005
They are on the cusp of a dream final at the United States Open, but first Roger Federer must confirm his domination over Lleyton Hewitt and then Andre Agassi needs to put down the challenge of upstart Robby Ginepri. A Federer-Agassi final under the lights on Sunday would potentially be the tennis match of the year.
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/ 9 September 2005
The number of confirmed typhoid cases in Delmas, Mpumalanga, rose to 100 on Friday, but the situation is gradually being brought under control, health officials said. Up to 700 people are now suffering from diarrhoea, but proper management and precautions should see the outbreak in Delmas brought under control.
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/ 9 September 2005
Zimbabwe’s Central Bank Governor, Gideon Gono, was in Washington on Friday lobbying members of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board not to recommend the expulsion of Zimbabwe, state radio reported. Gono met eight members of the IMF board to make a case for Zimbabwe’s continued membership.