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/ 14 February 2005
Sakhikamva Investments, a broad- based black empowerment (BEE) investment company with shareholders including The Big Issue and the Black Sash Trust, has declared its third dividend of R200 per share to its shareholders. Sakhikamva was established in 2001 to facilitate broad-based, grassroots participation in the empowerment process.
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/ 14 February 2005
Every year, thousands of Africans fleeing war and economic hardship journey towards the tip of the continent — their sights set on a better life in South Africa. Along with hope for the future, many also bring with them the Aids virus, and South Africa is already grappling with the challenge of providing anti-retroviral drugs to its own citizens.
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/ 14 February 2005
A senior South African military law officer is to help the United Nations investigate allegations of sexual abuse in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Allegations of sexual exploitation of girls as young as 13 by peacekeepers in the DRC started emerging around the eastern town of Bunia in early 2004.
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/ 14 February 2005
Almaz Tela wants to return to her old ways, farming millet, sorghum, corn and tending to cows, goats, sheep and chickens. The only problem is her farmland is in a buffer zone that separates Eritrea and Ethiopia, and she has to live in a refugee camp.
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/ 14 February 2005
Investors reacted positively on Monday to the news that General Motors will pay Fiat â,¬1,55-billion (-billion) to divorce its loss-making Italian partner. Shares in Fiat were up more than 4% during morning trading in Milan on the back of what was being described as a victorious outcome for the Italian carmaker.
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/ 14 February 2005
The inspector general of Gambia’s police force was on Sunday in jail along with the West African state’s former top immigration official, police sources said. Police chief Landing Badjie and Tamsir Jasseh were arrested on Saturday by National Intelligence Agency officers and taken to the capital’s central prison.
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/ 14 February 2005
Bizet’s tragic opera Carmen has been translated for the first time into the South African language of Xhosa and turned into a stunning film shot in a Cape Town township. The film premiered on Sunday at the Berlinale film festival in Germany.
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/ 14 February 2005
Army-installed Togo President Faure Gnassingbe on Sunday brushed aside international condemnation of his rule and praised the actions of his police force during riots that left at least three protesters dead. Opposition leaders asked for a day of calm so the country’s faithful could attend church.
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/ 14 February 2005
Hip-hop impresario Russell Simmons has joined other celebrities and activists who have criticised Kentucky Fried Chicken, saying he will call for a boycott if the company doesn’t reform its slaughter practices. Simmons called slaughter practices used by the fast-food chain’s suppliers ”grossly inhumane”.
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/ 14 February 2005
Rescue teams in helicopters searched for dozens of people missing as a result of floods and landslides that cut a trail of destruction through small Andean towns and killed at least 37 people in Venezuela over the past few days. In Colombia, similar flooding in the north-central part of the country, near Venezuela, has left at least 25 people dead.