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/ 19 January 2005
South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) chief executive Peter Matlare announced his resignation following a special meeting with the broadcaster’s board of directors on Wednesday. His resignation follows media speculation of a tiff between Matlare and the broadcaster’s managing director of news, Snuki Zikalala.
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/ 19 January 2005
For 75 of his 95 years, William Wagstaff rode the same bicycle — until a brush with a car finally made him decide to stop pedalling and donate the bike to a transport museum. Wagstaff, from Croydon in southern England, bought the bicycle for £14 in 1929, the Daily Mirror newspaper said on Wednesday.
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/ 19 January 2005
A wave of car bombings shook the Iraqi capital on Wednesday, killing at least 12 people as rebels stepped up their offensive to block the January 30 national election. Other attacks were reported north and south of the capital, but the United Nations election chief said only a sustained onslaught can stop the ballot.
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/ 19 January 2005
The government of the City of Cape Town has been given an unqualified audit report for the first time by Auditor General Shauket Fakie, for its financial year ended June 30 2004, Cape Town executive mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo announced on Wednesday. "It is with humility that I can announce a great achievement," Mfeketo said.
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/ 19 January 2005
The share price of Distell South Africa’s largest listed wine and spirits producer, has gained 7,4% or R1,80 to reach its previous all-time high on Wednesday on the back of its bullish trading update, issued late on Tuesday. At 4.30pm, Distell shares were quoted on the JSE Securities Exchange at R26, up from R24,20 at Tuesday’s close.
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/ 19 January 2005
Rugby’s squabbling administrators have brought the game into disrepute, the chairperson of Parliament’s sport portfolio committee said on Wednesday. His comment, during a presentation by SA Rugby’s 2011 World Cup bid committee, came as the Democratic Alliance accused the minister of sport and recreation of ”taking sides” with his brother in the row.
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/ 19 January 2005
Trade unions are gearing up for a march in Pretoria on Thursday to protest staff shortages in prisons. Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union president Zizamele Cebekhulu said the Department of Correctional Services has thus far failed to address the issues of prisoner overcrowding and staff shortages.
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/ 19 January 2005
The construction of a road network for southern Sudan will be crucial to rebuilding a region that, after two decades of civil war, has virtually none at all. Most of those that do exist are usable only in the dry season and all are unpaved and in desperate need of repair.
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/ 19 January 2005
The United Nations’s World Food Programme said on Wednesday it would feed in coming months more than a half million people in northern Burundi, where famine has claimed about 100 lives since November. The operation is aimed at tens of thousands of families in the Kirundo and Muyinga provinces where harvests were poor last year.
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/ 19 January 2005
The United Nations has warned that nearly two thirds of the population of Eritrea, 2,3-million people, will need food aid this year, news reports said on Wednesday. The tiny Horn of Africa country is facing severe food shortages in 2005, following several successive droughts in the main grain-producing areas of the country.