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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.
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/ 7 February 2005
Togo’s Constitutional Court swore in 39-year-old Faure Gnassingbe as this tiny West African nation’s new president on Monday, despite volleys of international condemnation after the military installed him as his late father’s successor. The six-member court conducted the ceremony at the presidential palace.
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/ 7 February 2005
Kenyan anti-graft chief John Githongo on Monday resigned amid complaints from donors that the government is not doing enough to stamp out corruption. His resignation comes less than a week after the British High Commissioner to Kenya, Edward Clay, mounted a renewed attack on what he called major corruption in Kenya.
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/ 7 February 2005
A Pretoria woman was arrested at Cape Town International airport after allegedly admitting to having swallowed cocaine ”bullets” worth an estimated R1,9-million. The consignment is one of the largest found on one individual at the airport and is the ninth such arrest at the airport over the past few months.
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/ 7 February 2005
A range of international scientists are preparing to come to South Africa for this year’s national festival of science in Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. The Sasol Scifest is not only considered the biggest science festival on the African continent, but it is also opening up dialogue between local and developed-world scientists.
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/ 7 February 2005
The Cook Islands appeared to have escaped the worst of Cyclone Meena despite earlier fears of widespread destruction, the New Zealand high commissioner to Rarotonga said on Monday. The cyclone battered houses on the islands, cut power and brought down trees but there were no reports of injury.