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/ 24 January 2005
President Thabo Mbeki paid a surprise visit to the troubled Moqhaka municipality in the Free State on Monday. Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff told journalists the meeting was part of the president’s unannounced visits to municipalities to check on service delivery. Marshoff said the Free State was privileged to be the first visited by the president.
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/ 24 January 2005
Kimi Raikkonen is confident the new McLaren car will be able to challenge Ferrari’s formula-one supremacy. McLaren launched the MP4-20 at Barcelona’s Circuit de Catalunya, hoping to avoid the mistakes that led to a terrible start to 2004. The car is an update of the MP4-19B, which was used for the second half of 2004.
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/ 24 January 2005
South African President Thabo Mbeki is due in Kinshasa on Tuesday to push the fragile peace process in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), but few believe elections will take place in June as scheduled. The country is struggling to reach the objectives of the December 2002 peace accord, which ended five years of war in the huge country.
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/ 24 January 2005
By pursuing an application for leave to appeal against their fraud convictions, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and broker Addy Moolman risk another court imposing heavier sentences, the state warned on Monday. ”There is no prospect of the sentences changing to their benefit,” advocate Jan Ferreira argued for the state in the Pretoria High Court.
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/ 24 January 2005
A powerful international consortium set up to accelerate research into a vaccine against HIV/Aids has identified major barriers to the first generation of commercially available HIV vaccines — and ways to overcome these obstacles, says a Science and Development Network report.
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/ 24 January 2005
Judges from Malawi’s high and supreme courts of appeal have gone on strike to press demands for a fleet of 26 new four-wheeled drive vehicles, a court official said on Friday. The judges said they want the new 4X4s because they regard themselves as equals to other top governmental officials and are entitled to the luxury vehicles.
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/ 24 January 2005
The new pharmacy operations of listed health and beauty retailer New Clicks Holdings continue to show a loss four months into the company’s 2005 financial year, with the government’s new dispensing-fee regulations eating into margins. This is leading the company to focus on rolling out pharmacy dispensaries in larger Clicks stores.
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/ 24 January 2005
Kenyan government plans to send 300 wild animals from the East African country to a zoo in Thailand has been heavily criticised by animal welfare organisations in the country. Animal welfare groups have questioned Kenya’s commitment to protecting its wildlife, as some of the animals on the list have been in steady decline in Kenya.
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/ 24 January 2005
Côte d’Ivoire’s air force took to the skies again at the weekend following permission from the United Nations to repair aircraft wrecked in November by French forces after they killed French peacekeepers, witnesses and UN officials said on Monday. a helicopter gunship made several test flights over the political capital of Yamoussoukro.
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/ 24 January 2005
Supporters of Iraq’s most wanted man, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, executed an Egyptian driver on a street in broad daylight, accusing him of working with United States-led forces, according to an internet video on Monday. On Friday, Zarqawi’s group posted a video on an Islamist website showing the beheading of two Iraqis.