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/ 25 November 2004
Media and entertainment group Johnnic Communications on Wednesday reported an increase of 727% in headline earnings to R124-million for the six-month period to 30 September 2004. Revenue for the period rose by 52% to R1953-million from R1284-million in 2003, while profit from continuing operations before exceptional items leapt by 800% from R17-million in 2003 to R153-million.
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/ 25 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s government is to unveil a 2005 budget on Thursday that will seek to reduce poverty affecting close to 80% of the population. Acting Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa is to present the budget covering the 2005 calendar year that will also aim to attract investment and improve crumbling social services.
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/ 25 November 2004
The South African criminal case against alleged coup plotter Mark Thatcher has been postponed to April 8 next year after a brief appearance in a Wynberg court on Thursday. Alan Bruce-Brand, a member of Thatcher’s legal team, said on Thursday that the conditions under which Thatcher had been released were extended, including a R2-million surety.
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/ 25 November 2004
A gang of 30 to 40 hungry monkeys surrounded a group of frightened passengers when they stepped off a bus at a rural Hong Kong bus stop. Panicked passengers dialled police for help when the monkeys, believed to be scavenging for food, rushed towards them at bus stop near the territory’s Lion Rock Country Park on Wednesday.
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/ 25 November 2004
The three-day power failure in western Johannesburg was not a surprise, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said, and the party was seeking answers from the council on events surrounding the power failure. The latest development is the discovery that oil spilled from the power station through storm water drains into the nearby Westdene dam, a statement from the DA read.
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/ 25 November 2004
Hundreds of federal agents stormed a town on the outskirts of Mexico City on Wednesday night after two undercover police officers were attacked and their bodies burned by a crowd who mistook them for kidnappers thought to be preying on a local school. About 500 police sealed off the streets and broke down doors in the search for the leaders of the mob.
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/ 25 November 2004
President Jacques Chirac, who arrived in Libya on Wednesday on the first visit by a French head of state, expressed the desire for a ”true partnership” with Tripoli after years of ”heavy turbulence”. Speaking to about 200 people at the residence of the French ambassador, Chirac said he wished to ”rebuild a strong dialogue and to establish a true partnership” with Libya, after years in which the North African country had supported terrorism.
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/ 25 November 2004
The real value of recorded building plans passed by municipalities (at constant 2000 prices) during the first nine months of 2004 increased by 29,5% or R5,167-billion from R17,507-billion to R22,674-billion compared with the first nine months of 2003, according to figures released on Thursday by Statistics South Africa.
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/ 25 November 2004
”You have to take it,” insisted my friend Alex, a vigorously hedonistic, endearingly irresponsible type. ”If you go to the Mexican desert, you simply have to try the peyote, otherwise it’s a wasted trip.” Simon Mills rides the mind-blowing Chihuahua al Pacifico railway into the Copper Canyon for a glimpse of the real Mexico — but steers well clear of the peyote.
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/ 25 November 2004
For a chap with a few pounds in his pockets and a furtive fondness for forbidden fruit, it’s damned hard to beat Cannes. For well over 150 years, the British upper crust have been coming here to sin in the sun — and, it seems, they still are. French police say they have no clear idea of why or how Anthony Ashley-Cooper, the 10th Earl of Shaftesbury, should have vanished so completely from the Cote d’Azur early this month.