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/ 8 February 2005
Israel and the Palestinians are to announce a deal to end more than four years of bloody intifada, which has claimed more than 4Â 500 lives, with ceasefire declarations on Tuesday. On Monday night the chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, said both sides were close to finalising the wording of a deal.
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/ 8 February 2005
An enduring mystery of the 1946 Nuremberg trials was apparently solved on Monday when an American former prison guard claimed it was he who, as an unwitting accomplice, passed to Hermann Goering the cyanide capsule with which the Nazi number two cheated the noose.
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/ 8 February 2005
Kenya’s top anti-corruption official resigned on Monday amid mounting international criticism of the government’s failure to take a firm line against high-level corruption. In a statement, John Githongo gave no reason for his decision, saying only he ”was no longer able to continue serving the government of Kenya”.
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/ 8 February 2005
Hats a size too large for most of the small heads, formal school uniforms equally incongruous, they march on regardless — the vanguard in an effort to bring pre-schoolers into Zimbabwe’s education system. Beginning this year, primary schools in this Southern African country are required to have at least one class that caters for four- and five-year-olds, to help these children prepare for first grade.
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/ 8 February 2005
"There were no guarantees when I started. I was brought in to learn about the business, the culture, the people and strategic issues. The agreement was that when the time was right, I would make the move. The timing for me is perfect."
New Anglo American CEO Lazarus Zim talks to the <i>Mail & Guardian</i> about transformation, South Africa’s place in the group and political risk.
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/ 8 February 2005
The South African rand was trading above 6,20 per dollar after United States President George Bush proposed a Budget that would cut the fiscal deficit to 3% of GDP from last year’s 3,5%. This shows that the administration is serious about addressing the problems of the twin deficits.
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/ 8 February 2005
Here is the truth about global warming: it is an anti-capitalist agenda, a Machiavellian political plot and a convenient rumour started by bungling Japanese pineapple farmers. It is a front for paranoia about immigration, an incitement to civil war, and the reason that the world’s attention was distracted from the risk of a tsunami. Welcome to Britain’s first meeting of climate-change sceptics.
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/ 7 February 2005
A ,5-trillion 2006 Budget plan proposed on Monday by United States President George Bush will cut many domestic programmes while boosting defence, with a projected deficit of -billion. The proposal, certain to ignite a battle from opposition Democrats, will raise military expenditures by 4,8% to ,3-billion.
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/ 7 February 2005
A Pretoria High Court judge has slated legislation that ”discriminates” between male and female child rape victims, with the rapists of boys facing far less severe sentences than those who raped girls. Jordaan described the discrimination as ”ridiculous” and said it cannot be countenanced in a constitutional dispensation such as South Africa’s.