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/ 1 February 2005
The Bush administration suffered a legal setback over its conduct of the war on terror on Monday when a United States federal judge ruled that the special military tribunals at Guantánamo Bay were unlawful. ”This means that these folks are actually going to get a hearing,” said Barbara Olshansky, of the Centre for Constitutional Rights.
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/ 1 February 2005
A senior Vatican official has supported the use of condoms to fight Africa’s Aids pandemic, contradicting the Catholic church’s official position. Cardinal Georges Cottier, theologian of the pontifical household, told the Italian news agency Apcom that the use of condoms was ”legitimate” to save lives in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
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/ 1 February 2005
The value of black economic empowerment (BEE) deals last year will easily be the highest value of deals recorded by the BusinessMap Foundation, surpassing the 1998 and 2003 peaks of about R21-billion. Last year’s BEE deal-making activity is unlikely to be replicated this year. Deal-making last year was driven largely — but not only — by the Financial Services Sector Charter and the Mining Charter.
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/ 31 January 2005
The African National Congress on Monday came out in support of the Congress of South African Trade Unions’ plans to visit Zimbabwe, while the South African government has criticised the trade federation’s plans. Said ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama: ”Cosatu should go there, but respecting the laws of the country.”
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/ 31 January 2005
The Department of Justice and Constitutional Development will respond on Tuesday to a Sunday newspaper report that claimed an administrative bungle had resulted in the arresting powers of some peace officers being wrongfully withdrawn — rendering illegal certain of their actions, such as the issuing of fines.
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/ 31 January 2005
Iran said on Monday that its current freeze on uranium enrichment will be short-lived but insisted that its nuclear activities pose no risk to the region, as claimed by arch-enemy the United States. Enrichment is a key process that makes what can be fuel for nuclear reactors but also the explosive core of atomic bombs.
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/ 31 January 2005
Russia pledged its ”active” support on Monday for visiting Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas amid growing signs of a revival in the long-dormant Middle East peace process. Abbas said Moscow will play a decisive role in restarting the Israeli-Palestinian talks.
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/ 31 January 2005
Giant soccer clubs Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates, together with the biggest church in the country, the Zion Christian Church (ZCC), have merged to form a cellular network distribution. ZOK, derived from the first letters of Zion, Orlando and Kaizer, was officially announced at a media briefing in Midrand on Monday.
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/ 31 January 2005
The Department of Public Works is compiling a shortlist of candidates to be interviewed to head the government’s R15-billion Expanded Public Works Programme. The programme’s aim is to create a million jobs over a five-year period — at least 200 000 each year. But the Democratic Alliance said it is all going too slowly.