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/ 18 February 2005
The case involving 23 MPs accused of misusing travel vouchers was postponed for further investigation in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on Friday. Earlier, Scorpions spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said he was hoping for a postponement because further investigation is needed.
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/ 18 February 2005
The South African government will not be pursuing a way of cushioning spikes in the oil price for consumers any time soon, according to Minister of Minerals and Energy Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka. She was addressing the media on Friday during Parliament’s media briefing week in Cape Town.
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/ 18 February 2005
South Africa will in April play host to the ICT in Government summit, industry research house and event organisers ForgeAhead announced on Friday. The summit will be attended by various African government leaders, decision-makers and representatives of the information and communications technology industry.
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/ 18 February 2005
British businessman Mark Thatcher answered two lists of questions from Equatorial Guinea prosecutors on Friday about his involvement in a botched coup attempt in the Central African country. A relaxed-looking Thatcher appeared before a Cape Town magistrate in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court to give his replies to the 43 questions.
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/ 18 February 2005
SA Rugby on Thursday announced the final squads of its four franchises that will participate in the 2005 Vodacom Rugby Super 12 competition. The competition kicks off next weekend. This year, each of the four local regional teams will have eight black players in their final squads of 30.
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/ 18 February 2005
Killarney professional Jaco van Zyl led the way after the opening round of the Telkom PGA Championships played at the par-72 Woodhill Country Club layout on Thursday. Despite the announcement that the course was playing tougher than ever, 66 golfers in the 156-man field shot below par with another 19 lying on level par.
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/ 18 February 2005
The JSE Securities Exchange was a mixed bag at noon on Friday after a dull morning session that lacked major drivers. At just over a billion rand, value traded was reasonable, but by no means fantastic. By 12.05pm, the all share index was down a marginal 0,07%. The financial and banks indices fell 0,55% and 1,08% respectively, while the platinum mining index weakened 0,86%.
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/ 18 February 2005
For more than eight years germ warfare expert Wouter Basson has lived in the shadow of the prison gates, accused of masterminding state-sanctioned mass murder under apartheid. Now the Constitutional Court will decide whether his 2002 acquittal on 64 criminal charges was justified, or the result of bias and bad findings by an old-guard Pretoria High Court judge.
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/ 18 February 2005
A survey released in London on Valentine’s Day indicates that the attitudes embodied in Sex and the City are over — and 2005 heralds a return to romance. Casual sex and pornography are no longer popular and singles are looking to be swept off their feet. Long-term relationships are also back in fashion, according to 73% of the 2 500 Britons interviewed.
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/ 18 February 2005
Cape Town mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo has reversed the controversial award of prime beachfront property to black economic empowerment companies — three with links to the African National Congress or its youth league — after a forensic audit found the tender process was ”flawed”. The Big Bay deal was an out of hand sale of 65 plots in Bloubergstrand.