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/ 15 February 2005
The tender for Cape Town’s multibillion-rand N2 Gateway Project, involving the building of high-density, low cost housing units in informal settlements adjacent to the national road on the outskirts of the city, has been won by the Sobambisana Consortium.
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/ 15 February 2005
Iraq’s Arab Sunnis will do a U-turn and join the political process despite their lack of representation in the newly elected national assembly, Sunni leaders said on Monday. Many Sunnis protested that the election was flawed and unfair, but in the wake of Sunday’s results, their political parties want to lobby for a share of power.
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/ 15 February 2005
A committee has been appointed to investigate allegations of racism in the Cape High Court, Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson said on Monday. He said he had requested the committee to give urgent attention to the matter and report back to the heads of the court as soon as possible.
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/ 15 February 2005
Nearly 60 people perished and more than 200 others suffered burns on Monday when a fire swept through a Tehran mosque crammed with worshippers, police said. Media reports said the fire was probably caused by a heater, brought into the mosque to protect worshippers from the bitter cold.
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/ 15 February 2005
South African shipping group Grindrod has invested nearly R2-billion in a major expansion of its shipping fleet in recent weeks. The company bought a geared container ship of 605 twenty-foot equivalent units for $7-million and has ordered four new 12Â 800 deadweight ton (dwt) oil/chemical tankers.
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/ 15 February 2005
A Johannesburg high school will be searched for guns and drugs on Tuesday morning, metro police said. ”We have received numerous complaints from the principal [of Intereleng Secondary School in Diepsloot] that learners go to school with illegal firearms,” said metro police spokesperson Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
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/ 15 February 2005
Scheduled elections will take place in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) come rain or come shine, the speaker of the national assembly promised on Monday at the start of a special session on a new Constitution. But Olivier Kamitatu warned against being too rigid about holding the poll before the end of June, as the opposition insists.
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/ 15 February 2005
After two years in the wilderness after a drugs test that went sour, talented Sharks flyhalf Herkie Kruger is back in the frame and the controlling body has once again got his signature on paper. A delighted Sharks coach Kevin Putt said: ”He is now available to play and this is hugely exciting for us.”
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/ 15 February 2005
France coach Bernard Laporte paid little heed to the 18-17 victory over England on Monday when he recalled three of last year’s Six Nations Grand Slam heroes for the crucial clash with Wales on February 26. He recalled number eight Imanol Harinordoquy, winger Aurelien Rougerie and centre Yannick Jauzion, France’s player of the year.
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/ 15 February 2005
Clay-court kings Juan Carlos Ferrero and Guillermo Coria broadened their tennis horizons with convincing opening-round victories indoors at the €782 250 Rotterdam Cup on Monday. Ferrero and Coria have both abandoned the inviting red-dirt events of South America this month to polish their indoor fitness in Europe.