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/ 15 February 2005
For long, it epitomised the brutality of the apartheid state but Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela spent much of his life in prison, is now a lovers’ rendezvous. Fifteen couples from South Africa, Germany, Britain and the Democratic Republic of Congo on Tuesday said their ”I dos” in a church on the island.
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/ 15 February 2005
The gates to Tshwane University of Technology’s Ga-Rankuwa campus were blockaded on Tuesday morning by about 1Â 000 students who used burning tyres to keep out lecturers. They were protesting against a recently announced 6% fee increase imposed on them to bring the campus into line with the university’s other six campuses.
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/ 15 February 2005
A three-year-old boy with an intelligence quotient of 137 has become the youngest current member of the British chapter of Mensa, the international society for highly intelligent people, Mensa said on Monday. Mikhail Ali, from the northern English city of Leeds, was admitted to Mensa after undergoing tests at the University of York.
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/ 15 February 2005
Surging demand for toilet paper in China has some of the nation’s suppliers in a flush, state press said on Tuesday. The vice-director of the Shanghai Paper Trade Association said he is "beginning to worry about the large wood consumption", and the industry needs to consider other technologies and uses.
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/ 15 February 2005
The Cabinet reshuffle by Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in response to a recent outcry over corruption is ”completely unsatisfactory”, the countrys leading anti-graft watchdog said on Tuesday. ”It makes a mockery of Kenyans concerns [over corruption],” said Gladwell Otieno, head of the Kenyan chapter of Transparency International.
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/ 15 February 2005
Diversified mining group African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) is confident that gold-miner Harmony Gold, in which it has a 16,2% stake, will take control of Gold Fields, ARM executive chairperson Patrice Motsepe — who is also chairperson of Harmony — said on Tuesday. ARM continues to support the bid as it has been presented, he added.
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/ 15 February 2005
Dagga and a knife were found hidden in a grade eight classroom at a Diepsloot school on Tuesday in a raid by more than 100 police officers using sniffer dogs. Four youths were also arrested, but not in class. They were caught smoking dagga at a shebeen about 500m from Itirele-Senzele High School, said a Pretoria police spokesperson.
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/ 15 February 2005
The local and international community should take action against Swaziland’s King Mswati III’s ”insensitive expenditure”, the Swaziland Solidarity Network said on Tuesday. This comes after the monarch spent R5-million on 10 BMWs for his wives and R6-million on a Chrysler Maybach for himself.
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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.