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/ 30 November 2004
Hundreds of delegates started arriving on Tuesday in Harare ahead of this week’s ruling party congress which is likely to see the election of Zimbabwe’s first woman vice-president. Around 9 000 delegates of President Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union – Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) are due to attend the five-day conference, which begins on Wednesday.
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/ 30 November 2004
Iran boasted on Tuesday that it had humiliated the United States at a board meeting of the UN atomic watchdog by agreeing to what it reiterated was only a temporary freeze of its suspect nuclear programme. ”The Islamic republic has not renounced the nuclear fuel cycle, will never renounce it and will use it,” top national security official and nuclear negotiator Hassan Rowhani told a news conference.
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/ 30 November 2004
The attitude of the Bush administration to the rest of the world encourages a new standard for international relations: blatant, flagrant unilateralism. It is Ali Mufuruki’s chilling phrase — the legality of the means we use to achieve this should be defined by us and nobody else — that captures the essence of this dangerous trend.
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/ 30 November 2004
The London High Court has frozen 13-million pounds (-million) worth of assets held in Britain by former Zambian President Frederick Chiluba and four other government officials on trial in Lusaka for theft and corruption, the government said on Tuesday. The freeze remains in effect until January 12, when the court will hear arguments from representatives of the Zambian government and Chiluba.
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/ 30 November 2004
Daniel Barenboim, the acclaimed Israeli conductor, on Monday unveiled his latest initiative to help the Middle East peace process — a music kindergarten for Palestinian refugee children. The kindergarten in the Palestinian town of Ramallah opened three weeks ago and is working extremely well, Barenboim said.
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/ 30 November 2004
A lesbian couple’s appeal to the Supreme Court of Appeal to have their marriage legally recognised and registered succeeded on Tuesday. The court, in a majority decision, declared that under the Constitution the common law concept of marriage was to be developed to embrace same-sex partners.
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/ 30 November 2004
The price of petrol will drop by 19c a litre from midnight, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Tuesday. Diesel with 0.3% sulphur content will drop by 20.7c per litre, wholesale, and diesel with a 0.05% sulphur content will drop by 22.7c per litre, wholesale.
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/ 30 November 2004
South Africa’s third-quarter 2004 gross domestic product growth increased by 5,6% on a quarter-on- quarter seasonally adjusted annualised basis from a revised 4.5% (initial estimate 3.9%) in the second quarter, Statistics South Africa said on Tuesday.
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/ 30 November 2004
One of Mozambique’s richest businessmen and leading candidate in this week’s presidential race, Armando Guebuza is a stalwart of the ruling party who was at the forefront of his country’s fight for independence from Portugal and negotiations to end the civil war.
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/ 30 November 2004
A Saudi man divorced his wife after she insisted on waiting 13 hours at an airport to take a flight that kept being delayed, the Saudi daily al-Yaum said on Tuesday. The couple waited from 9am until 11pm last weekend to take a flight at the Bisha airport in the south of the Saudi kingdom.