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/ 24 February 2005
The South African Rugby Union (Saru) continues to enjoy the full support of the South African government, despite serious unhappiness with its president, Brian van Rooyen, within the ranks of Parliament’s sports portfolio committee. Saru seems to have sorted out its problems with Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile, but has not yet gained the unconditional support of the portfolio committee.
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/ 24 February 2005
A rapper who is in jail awaiting a murder trial has angered the sheriff by recording parts of his forthcoming music video behind bars. The rapper C-Murder, whose real name is Corey Miller, has been jailed for more than three years, facing a second-degree murder charge in the killing of a 16-year-old inside a nightclub.
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/ 24 February 2005
Telkom announced on Thursday that it is to reduce its ADSL prices from March 1 as part of its new broadband initiative unveiled by CEO Sizwe Nxasana. This includes the launch of HomeDSL 192 for residential customers and the commercial roll-out of the Telkom T-Zone in partnership with Wireless G.
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/ 24 February 2005
African Oxygen Limited (Afrox) is presently spearheading more than 40 growth projects, one of which is a R100-million re-engineering of its gases operations centre in Germiston on the East Rand. These projects cover organic growth as well as new greenfield’s projects and acquisitions.
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/ 24 February 2005
New York police were forced to intervene when a ”sneaker riot” broke out in Manhattan on Tuesday, with shoppers queueing to buy limited-edition Nike Pigeon Dunk skateboarding trainers. Despite the presence of a bouncer, fighting broke out when people tried to barge ahead of those who had camped out for up to 48 hours.
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/ 24 February 2005
A teacher has apologised for letters sent by his sixth-grade students to an American soldier, accusing the United States military of killing civilians and destroying Iraqi mosques in a futile war on terror. Alex Kunhardt sent the letters to Private Rob Jacobs for a social studies assignment.
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/ 24 February 2005
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Five percent Gross Domestic Product (GDP) growth in South Africa is ”doable” in 2005, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said in a post Budget briefing on Thursday. In his Budget speech on Wednesday, Manuel forecast 4,3% growth in GDP, which he said was in line with the consensus of economists, compared with last year’s 3,7%.
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/ 24 February 2005
Spying hasn’t worked, and neither has shooting. So the United States has turned to its great cultural weapon to flush out Osama bin Laden — television. After a fruitless three-year hunt, the US is funding advertisements on Pakistani television which it hopes will touch the hearts of those close to the elusive al-Qaeda leader.
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/ 24 February 2005
The fight against HIV/Aids is being hampered by a massive shortage of condoms — only about one-tenth of the 10,8-billion needed were available in developing countries in 2003 and there seems little chance of meeting a target of 18,6-billion by 2015.
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/ 24 February 2005
MPs from Kenya’s ruling party on Wednesday announced that they would push for a vote of no confidence in the president, a critical test of the government, which is under concerted pressure from western powers over its failure to fight corruption. Despite being elected on an anti-graft platform in 2003, the administration has been engulfed by allegations of sleaze.