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/ 3 December 2004
Bank consultant Juanita Coetzee was sentenced to life and 14 years in jail by the Johannesburg High Court on Friday for murdering her former husband shortly after their divorce. Judge Joop Labuschagne said that Coetzee was not a battered wife, as claimed, but a manipulative woman who had her former husband killed to inherit over R1-million.
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/ 3 December 2004
Former United States president Jimmy Carter gave Mozambique’s third multi-party elections a tentative thumbs-up on Friday despite a poor turnout, saying the two days of voting appeared to have gone off well. Carter said of the polls, which were held on Wednesday and Thursday: ”We interrogated any obsevers who were there, especially from the opposition parties… and we have found that they had no complaints.”
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/ 3 December 2004
President Joseph Kabila accused Rwanda on Friday of trying to create a confrontation with the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in an effort to disrupt Congolese efforts to secure the country and move toward 2005 elections. It was Kabila’s first public statement since Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame began warning last week that his country would act against Rwanda Hutu rebels in the eastern DRC.
Thousands flee clashes in the DRC
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/ 3 December 2004
Iran will resume enriching uranium after a maximum of six months, powerful former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani vowed on Friday, reaffirming that Tehran’s freeze on nuclear fuel cycle work is only temporary. The United States accuses Iran of running a covert nuclear weapons programme, but the Islamic republic insists it only wants to enrich uranium to low levels to produce fuel for a series of atomic power stations.
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/ 3 December 2004
The world’s most prestigious art prize has gone to a political artist who created a video of George W Bush’s ranch, writes Maev Kennedy.
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/ 3 December 2004
The Cape High Court’s rejection of the medicines appeal bid would not affect the Supreme Court of Appeal hearing, the Pharmaceutical Society of SA said on Friday. ”We note the judgement, also again that it’s a split decision,” said PSSA executive director Ivan Kotze.
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/ 3 December 2004
An independent candidate running for next week’s parliamentary polls in Taiwan stripped to his underwear on Friday as a gimmick to attract attention on television.
Chen Sheng-chun succeeded in getting the much-needed media attention by taking off his suit and giving his political views in front of TV cameras.
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/ 3 December 2004
Jonathan Hyslop has done a remarkable job piecing together the life of Bain in his book <em>The Notorious Syndicalist</em>. He has brilliantly integrated literary studies, history of the British empire and a range of other related disciplines to create a rich, finely textured work, writes Anthony Egan.
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/ 3 December 2004
For those who are fascinated by South African history and political biography, several books offer excellent prospects for a "comradely Christmas".
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/ 3 December 2004
As the festive season approaches, world publishing displays its finery, and nowhere is this more apparent than in the cookery book industry. The stars and their publishers fight for display space with gaudy dollops of ink. The texts come from deep within the psyches of the sensitive celebrity chefs (and their ghostwriters), each one giving more than they’ve ever had to give.