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/ 28 January 2005
Scorpions spokesperson Sipho Ngwema said in a statement on Friday that the 40 MPs implicated in the Travelgate scandal — 27 current and 13 former MPs — will appear in the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court on February 18. The names of the MPs — who allegedly used their travel vouchers for illicit purposes — will be disclosed when they appear in court.
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/ 28 January 2005
The African National Congress has accused the influential British newspaper The Economist of publishing ”outright falsehoods” in an article on President Thabo Mbeki. It makes the claim in an anonymous article posted on the party’s website on Friday, in reaction to an Economist report on Mbeki last week titled ”The man with two faces”.
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/ 28 January 2005
Four South Africans are still unaccounted for following their disappearance during the Asian tsunami disaster, the Department of Foreign Affairs said in Pretoria on Friday. Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Sue van der Merwe said the South African government is still working closely with Interpol to trace the missing people.
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/ 28 January 2005
The Israeli army’s chief of staff, General Moshe Yaalon, ordered on Friday an end to ”offensive operations” in the Gaza Strip after the deployment of thousands of Palestinians security forces in the territory. Yaalon also said that targeted killing operations of militants in the West Bank will only be carried out with his own authorisation.
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/ 28 January 2005
Sport is elitist. Anyone who wants to argue that toss needs to go two rounds with a pro fighter, and then we’ll see if fuzzy notions of universal brotherhood persist.
Sport tolerates no affirmative action. Those who are up to its challenges are affirmed; the rest are crushed like the no-hopers and also-rans they always were, writes Tom Eaton.
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/ 28 January 2005
Despite recent rain, Lake St Lucia — South Africa’s first World Heritage Site — is still below its normal levels, Ezemvelo KwaZulu-Natal Wildlife said on Friday. At present, the level of the lake is about 80cm below mean sea level, and the lake’s surface area is about 30% of normal. The lake has become compartmented into three distinct water bodies.
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/ 28 January 2005
Nasdaq, the world’s biggest electronic stock exchange, is pro-actively canvassing issuing clients in emerging economies. It says that it sees more activity from, for example, Israeli, Russian and Chinese companies than from the more established economies of, say, France and Germany.
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/ 28 January 2005
She identified her uncle from the gaps between the teeth of a skull she was shown in Phalaborwa mortuary, Fetsang Jafta told the Phalaborwa Circuit Court on Friday. Jafta was testifying in the trial of three men accused of killing her uncle, Nelson Chisale, by feeding him to lions on January 31 last year.
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/ 28 January 2005
The Freedom Front Plus, which has waged a parliamentary campaign against retrenchments at Telkom, has congratulated the partly state-owned company and its three trade unions after an agreement was struck to put the redundancy of 4 300 of its workers on the back-burner.
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/ 28 January 2005
Alex Sudheim visits Kathryn Smith’s latest exhibition, Euphemism, and describes it as ”a sprawling, frustrating, incoherent exhibition by the 2004 Standard Bank Young Artist of the Year”.