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/ 17 January 2005
United States special forces have been on the ground inside Iran scouting for US air strike targets for suspected nuclear weapons sites, according to the renowned US investigative journalist Seymour Hersh. ”The last thing this government wants to do is to bomb or strafe, or missile attack, the wrong targets again. We don’t want another WMD flap. We want to be sure we have the right information.”
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/ 17 January 2005
South African business owners are the second most optimistic among their peers internationally, the first results from the 2005 Grant Thornton International Business Owners Survey released on Monday reveal. Proudly at number two, South Africa beat countries such as Ireland, Australia and Canada
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/ 17 January 2005
Wilbert Rideau, imprisoned since the days ”whites only” signs hung across the South in the United States, enjoyed his first full day of freedom, after a jury effectively decided he had been punished enough for a killing that continues to divide his hometown along racial lines.
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/ 17 January 2005
The last time an ousted Chinese leader died, in 1989, millions marched in the streets and gathered in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in student-led protests that shook Beijing’s Communist Party leadership to the core. Today’s leaders looked determined to ensure that the death of former leader Zhao Ziyang on Monday does not result in similar upheavals.
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/ 17 January 2005
The government of Canada has cancelled $21-million in debt owed to Canada by Madagascar under the Canadian Debt Initiative. Canada has also announced $42-million in increased funding to support the Global Polio Eradication Initiative, according to Paul Boothe, the G8 personal representative for Canada.
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/ 17 January 2005
Health and beauty retailer New Clicks has increased its turnover from continuing operations by 25% in the four months from September 1 to December 31 2004, versus the previous year, aided by the inclusion of pharmacy operations compared with the year-earlier period. Group sales totalled R2,97-billion for the four months.
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/ 17 January 2005
Barloworld Handling — a division of South African diversified brands group Barloworld — has secured an agreement worth more than R90-million to supply Hyster equipment and services to Beaulieu of America, one of the largest carpet manufacturers in the United States.
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/ 17 January 2005
Diggers are ripping apart ceilings that obscured a dazzling glass roof and beautiful mosaics hidden beneath modern floorboards. The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, famed for its collection of Rembrandts and Vermeers, is opening its buildings to the public in the middle of a renovation. Visitors attending the weekly tour have to wear a yellow hard hat.
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/ 17 January 2005
Investigations were continuing into the origins of some of the artefacts at Johannesburg’s SA National Museum of Military History, a South African National Defence Force spokesperson said on Monday. This follows a raid last week and the arrest of the museum’s director and two curators under laws governing the way military items are disposed of.
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/ 17 January 2005
Like much of the hidden richness of Africa, the diamond mine at Catoca in eastern Angola strikes the rare visitor as a surprising oasis of wealth in the middle of a desert of poverty. The open-sky mineworks look like a huge upside-down pyramid where the Catoca Mining Company turns out more than three-million carats of rough diamond a year.