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/ 14 February 2005
Although South Africa were disappointed to lose the Test series against England, a four-one victory in the one-day series was ”very sweet” said South African captain Graeme Smith after his team wrapped up the seventh Standard Bank match by three wickets on Sunday.
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/ 14 February 2005
The Southern African Development Community (SADC) observers should go to Zimbabwe soon to assist that country and to ensure that a proper climate is created for next month’s elections, President Thabo Mbeki said on Sunday. The Zimbabwe government has failed to give the necessary written invitation to the SADC delegation.
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/ 14 February 2005
Pakistani rescue teams battled against multiple disasters over the weekend as the death toll from a week of blizzards and torrential rainfall climbed to more than 360. A second dam ruptured in Baluchistan province on Sunday, killing seven people, after at least 135 died and up to 1 500 were still missing when the Shadikor dam burst over several coastal towns on Thursday.
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/ 14 February 2005
The traditional world music album award won by Ladysmith Black Mambazo at the 47th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles made South Africa proud, President Thabo Mbeki said on Monday. He said: ”This is the epitome of success for a group which had entertained our country and millions abroad for more than four decades.”
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/ 14 February 2005
Tensions between the United States and Europe over the conduct of the ”war on terror” — in particular, how to stop Iran building nuclear weapons — spilled over on Sunday at a high-level security conference. Sharp differences were exposed and even the usefulness of Nato was questioned.
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/ 14 February 2005
HIV and Aids scientists and advisers on both sides of the Atlantic urged caution on Sunday over suggestions that a new fast-acting strain of the HIV virus resistant to most anti-retroviral drugs had emerged in New York. Thomas Friedman, the city’s health commissioner, said on Friday the strain might be ”difficult or impossible to treat”.
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/ 14 February 2005
Iraq’s Shia Muslims sealed their historic political ascendancy on Sunday night when they won just under half of the votes in the country’s landmark multiparty elections, giving the long-oppressed majority its first taste of power in decades. Final results from the January 30 ballot released on Sunday showed the Shias won more than four million votes, or about 48% of those cast.
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/ 14 February 2005
Triumph Motorcycles South Africa has imported one of the last batches of the 955cc Triumph Sprint RS triples to sell at an extremely affordable R69 995 — considerably less than the current cost of any remotely comparable one litre sports tourer.
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/ 14 February 2005
Oil giant Shell is fighting calls for a windfall tax after it recorded the biggest profits by a British company to date. The £9,4-billion earned in 2004 from oil and gas — £1-million an hour and equal to nearly 1% of the United Kingdom’s gross domestic product — came after the prices of UK domestic gas, electricity and petrol soared. Banking group HSBC is predicted to match Shell’s profits.
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/ 14 February 2005
Leah Njoki’s face was bathed in perspiration as she made her way, limping, in front of the United Nations premises last week. Sleeping outdoors had also brought on an attack of flu. Njoki was one of about 300 disabled hawkers who had been demonstrating at the offices for several days, in the hope of forcing the UN to intervene in a local government decision to bar informal traders from doing business in the city centre.