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/ 3 September 2005
A teenager charged with the murder of baby Jordan Leigh Norton claimed he tried to comfort the distressed infant moments before she was stabbed in the neck, a Cape Town magistrate heard on Friday. The macabre disclosure was made during a bail application by taxi driver and shebeen owner Sipho Mfazwe.
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/ 3 September 2005
A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly hacking her nine-month old son to death with an axe and attempting suicide after they both tested positive for the Aids virus, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Enock Livason said the woman and her son had tested positive for the virus at a government hospital.
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/ 3 September 2005
Botswana’s government on Friday announced the temporary closure of southern and central parts of the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, saying this is necessary to contain an outbreak of contagious disease that endangers wildlife. But Survival International said the real reason is to restrict the movement of Basarwa tribesmen.
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/ 3 September 2005
A South African flight attendant appeared in an Australian court on Saturday on smuggling charges after 1kg of cocaine was found hidden in his luggage, news reports said on Saturday. Abdengo Morema Serane (26) arrived at Perth International airport on a flight from Johannesburg on Thursday.
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/ 3 September 2005
The Inkatha Freedom Party has to find ways of regaining municipalities lost to the ”fraud” of floor-crossing, its 30th annual conference heard in Ulundi on Friday. Top party official Professor Themba Msimang lashed out at what he described as the ”chequebook politics” of the African National Congress.
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/ 3 September 2005
The Ban Yanyao farmers meeting under the shade of a jumpa tree to protect themselves from the tropical midday sun form an unlikely vanguard of a task force to stop a bird-flu pandemic claiming tens of millions of lives around the world. ”We’d know within a day if someone … came down with something like bird flu,” said one farmer.
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/ 3 September 2005
”It is incredible, the government had no evacuation plan … the first power in the world and it left its own population adrift.” It will be particularly galling that the man voicing those thoughts, echoed on Friday by many across the United States and around the world, was Hugo Chávez, the President of Venezuela.
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/ 3 September 2005
Turkey on Friday threatened to abandon ”for good” its 40-year dream of joining the European Union if it is offered anything less than full membership. As the EU paved the way for negotiations to open on October 3, the Turkish foreign minister pledged to walk away if a proposal to downgrade its membership is on the table.
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/ 3 September 2005
The number of dead left in the wake of Typhoon Talim rose on Saturday to 18 on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, China’s official Xinhua news agency reported from the eastern coastal province of Zhejiang. Meanwhile, powerful Typhoon Nabi was churning on Saturday toward the southern Japanese island of Okinawa.
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/ 3 September 2005
United States President George Bush arrived on Friday night in the ravaged Gulf Coast region amid mounting criticism of his handling of the crisis and a prediction by one senator that the death toll in Louisiana alone could top 10Â 000 people.