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/ 22 February 2005
A mystery man in a surgical mask and cap bought the most expensive car licence plate sold in Hong Kong since 1997, paying HK$7,1-million (about R5,3-million), a Hong Kong newspaper said on Monday. The winner bought the plate number 12 — which sounds like "certainly easy" in Cantonese.
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/ 22 February 2005
It was billed as a chance for British Minister of Finance Gordon Brown to quiz China’s young elite about what they want from the future. And he got his answer — more Harry Potter memorabilia. In a lengthy question-and-answer session, Brown, currently on a three-day visit to China, chatted to about a dozen teenage pupils, all star English students.
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/ 22 February 2005
As Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo made his reputation as the architect of the government’s campaign to silence criticism, and still had time to get his own jingles aired on state television. Moyo was fired over the weekend, but he has left a legacy of laws that effectively deny government critics a means of disseminating information.
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/ 22 February 2005
The state asked the Constitutional Court on Tuesday for a second chance at prosecuting apartheid-era chemical and biological warfare expert Dr Wouter Basson on six charges of conspiracy to murder. The alleged victims were ”enemies” of the then South African government, in London, Mozambique, Namibia and Swaziland.
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/ 22 February 2005
Peace talks between Ugandan authorities and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army will go on beyond the end this week of a unilateral government ceasefire, officials said on Tuesday. However, as the talks continue, Kampala will press ahead with military operations against the rebels, whose ranks the government maintains have been decimated.
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/ 22 February 2005
South African oil and chemicals group Sasol on Tuesday touched an all-time high on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) on the group’s strong earnings outlook. On Tuesday, Sasol announced that it expects that its headline earnings per share for the half-year ending December 2004 to be about 60% higher than in the previous comparative period.
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/ 22 February 2005
Foreign ministers from 15 African countries have agreed to press demands for Africa to be granted two veto-wielding permanent seats at the United Nations Security Council, ambassadors said on Tuesday. The ministers are to draw up a response to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s blueprint for UN reform.
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/ 22 February 2005
Kenyan authorities believe three terrorism suspects detained at the weekend are potential suicide bombers who may be linked to this month’s murder of a British Broadcasting Corporation journalist in Somalia, a senior police official said on Monday.
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/ 22 February 2005
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Former president Nelson Mandela offered to help to ”extinguish” the debt of Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Testifying at his fraud and corruption trial on Tuesday, Schabir Shaik said Mandela felt Zuma’s financial problems were ”distracting him from his duties at the African National Congress”.
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/ 22 February 2005
African intellectuals who had sat on the sidelines while the New Partnership for Africa’s Development was prepared, and complained about not being consulted, should now stand up and be counted. This was the challenge of President Thabo Mbeki, who addressed the 11th General Conference of the Association of African Universities in Cape Town on Tuesday.