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/ 23 November 2004
Fikile Mbalula is the newly elected president of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL). He is 33 years old and has high ambitions for himself, the country and the world. The Mail & Guardian Online spoke with him in his office on the seventh floor of Albert Luthuli House in downtown Johannesburg.
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/ 23 November 2004
Former United States president Jimmy Carter will lead a delegation of foreign observers monitoring elections next week in Mozambique that will mark the end of President Joaquim Chissano’s 18-year rule, officials said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 November 2004
Without urgent action ”the world is unlikely to gain the upper hand over Aids”, two UN agencies warned on Tuesday. New data shows nearly 40 million people now have HIV and over three million will die of Aids this year, the highest toll in the 23-year history of the killer disease.
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/ 23 November 2004
Colin Powell, the United States secretary of state, won an assurance from Israel on Monday that it would ease its grip on the occupied territories and allow greater freedom of movement before the Palestinian presidential election in January. But Powell disappointed the Palestinian leadership by declining to press an array of other issues, including the continued expansion of Jewish settlements.
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/ 23 November 2004
A woman who said her 10-year-old grilled cheese sandwich bore the image of the Virgin Mary will be getting a lot more bread after the item sold for  000 (R168 ,468 ) on eBay. GoldenPalace.com, an online casino, confirmed that it placed the winning bid, and company executives said they were willing to spend ”as much as it took” to own the 10-year-old half-sandwich with a bite out of it.
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/ 23 November 2004
A 25-year-old woman has been arrested for allegedly cashing a friend’s winning lottery ticket worth R23,7-million, Pretoria police said on Tuesday. The woman, a former domestic worker, allegedly used her friend’s money to buy two luxury cars, a R2-million smallholding in Bronkhorstspruit and a flat in Sunnyside, Pretoria.
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/ 23 November 2004
A state of emergency has been declared in Sudan’s North Darfur state because of attacks by rebels in which many people have died, a Sudanese government newspaper said Tuesday. The official Al Anbaa daily said local governor Osman Yusuf Kibir declared the state of emergency across north Darfur and a curfew in the wake of ”a grave military escalation by the rebels”.
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/ 23 November 2004
Former Black Sabbath lead singer Ozzy Osbourne wrestled with a burglar on Monday at his rural English home before the intruder and an accomplice made off with up to â,¬1,4-million, (R10.9-million) worth of jewellery, police said. Ozzy, 55, discovered one of the thieves around 4am in his wife Sharon’s dressing room, at their massive house near Chalfont Saint Peter, south England.
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/ 23 November 2004
Aids has hit sub-Saharan Africa so badly that the disease will cast a shadow over generations to come, even in countries that succeed in the battle against it, the United Nations warned on Tuesday. Africans account for about 25,4-million of the 39,4-million people around the world who have either the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) or Aids.
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/ 23 November 2004
People planning to go to Johannesburg’s Helen Joseph and Coronation hospitals were asked not to use the hospitals until the power failure in the western parts of the city had been repaired.
Parts of western Johannesburg were plunged into darkness when an electrical sub-station in Hursthill near the Helen Joseph hospital caught fire on Monday evening.