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/ 6 September 2005
South African Rugby vice-president Mike Stofile claimed on Monday the appointment of Andre Bester as spokesperson for rugby boss Brian van Rooyen had been irregular. ”Bester is being paid R300 000 a year and he was never properly appointed by SA Rugby. I lodged a complaint in December about Bester,” said Stofile.
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/ 6 September 2005
Police have dropped their case against two men suspected of breaking into the Sandton home of Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, The Star newspaper reported on Monday. Charges were dropped for lack of evidence, but the two will be tried for other burglaries committed in Sandton.
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/ 6 September 2005
The top half of a pedestrian’s body was found in Slovoville on the West Rand a day after his legs were discovered 30km away on the Golden Highway offramp, Johannesburg metro police said on Monday. Spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar said the man had been run over on the offramp from the N1 on Saturday.
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/ 6 September 2005
An army court martial on Monday heard the first graphic account of how seven British soldiers allegedly carried out a ”brutal” and ”unprovoked” attack on a group of Iraqi civilians that led to the death of an unarmed teenager from severe head injuries. Two women who tried to intervene were ”hit and hurt”, the court martial heard.
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/ 6 September 2005
Nine German tourists, including six children, were killed on Monday when a helicopter dropped a concrete block on a cable-car line they were travelling on at a popular Austrian ski resort. The helicopter was ferrying building materials to a construction site atop a nearby mountain when the 750kg block tumbled free.
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/ 6 September 2005
A fire that began when an actor knocked over a candle on the set of a play ripped through a crowded theatre in the central Egyptian city of Beni Suef late on Monday, sparking a stampede of audience members and killing at least 29 people, survivors and officials said. The fire spread quickly across the set, which was made entirely of paper.
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/ 6 September 2005
Primeserv has recorded a turnaround for the year ended June, delivering an operating profit of R2,2-million compared with an operating loss of R3,5-million for the previous year. This resulted in a net profit for the year of R3-million compared with a loss of R8,54-million previously.
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/ 6 September 2005
Investigators on Tuesday hunted for clues in the wreckage of the crashed jetliner in northern Indonesia as the airline ruled out terrorism in the disaster that killed at least 150 people. The Mandala Airlines Boeing 737-200 plunged into a suburb of Medan on Monday, seconds after taking off from the city’s airport.
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/ 6 September 2005
"When they leave our school at some stage," says the principal of United Herzlia Schools, Geoff Cohen, of his learners, "hopefully they leave as a mensch." That last word — mensch — captures something of the cultural diversity that the term "Jewish" embraces. It’s not Hebrew. It’s Yiddish, a language dating back to the Middle Ages spoken by Jews in Eastern European countries.
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/ 6 September 2005
Some significant legal and political victories for mother-tongue education were gained in the recent past. In relation to Afrikaans in particular, there was Mikro Primary School’s successful defence against court action by the Western Cape department of education to enforce its language policy on the school governing body.