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/ 23 November 2004
Namibia’s small opposition parties on Monday raised questions about last week’s election results which the ruling party and its presidential candidate, Hifikepunye Pohamba, won with a landslide victory. The ruling South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo) won 75,1% of the ballot in parliamentary elections and retained its 55 seats in the 72-member National Assembly, while Pohamba got 76,4% of the presidential vote.
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/ 23 November 2004
A New Zealand lifeguard told on Tuesday how a pod of dolphins saved him and three young women from a large shark that had threatened them on a training swim 100 metres offshore. Rob Howe said he and his daughter were with two others at Ocean Beach, near Whangarei, when six or seven dolphins ”raced in pretty quick and very, very agitated” and herded them together by turning tight circles around the group to protect them.
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/ 23 November 2004
Actor Winston Gama, popularly known as Motise, died at the Helen Joseph hospital in Johannesburg after a short illness, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Monday evening. He played the role of Mzilikazi in the 1986 mini-series Shaka Zulu and also starred in the films The Master of Dragonard Hill and Purgatory.
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/ 23 November 2004
A new computer game which allows players to recreate the assassination of John F Kennedy has been condemned as ”despicable” by the former United States president’s family. In JFK: Reloaded, players take the role of Lee Harvey Oswald and fire at President Kennedy’s motorcade. The player who most accurately recreates Oswald’s three fatal shots will win a 000 competition.
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/ 23 November 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Monday acknowledged that there is infighting in the upper ranks of his ruling party ahead of a key party congress due next month, state television reported. The 80-year-old leader’s remarks came amid speculation of intense jockeying for positions of power within Mugabe’s Zimbabwe African National Union — Patriotic Front (Zanu-PF) ahead of parliamentary elections to be held in March next year.
Zimbabwe needs a ‘regime change’
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/ 23 November 2004
A billion-dollar survey of the world’s oceans has so far pinpointed 38 000 marine species — and identified new fish at the rate of two a week. The census of marine life, a concerted effort by hundreds of scientists from more than 70 nations, is in effect the first hi-tech inventory of life in the so called ”blue planet”.
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/ 23 November 2004
Iran on Monday moved to avoid a showdown with the West over its contested nuclear activities by freezing all operations connected with the enrichment of uranium into nuclear fuel. Reacting to the news of a freeze during a visit to Colombia, United States President George Bush said: ”Let’s say I hope it’s true.”
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/ 23 November 2004
Down here, on the Deep South Coast, the pre-holiday panic is on. Supermarkets are full of frantic buyers, local authorities, understandably a little torpid during the rest of the year, are giving a spit and polish to those corners of the Hibiscus Coast that need it. This year, however, it’s been different, very different — the out-of-town holiday-makers have all been beaten to it by the purple alien …
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/ 23 November 2004
The Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa) on Monday tabled its comments and understanding of ministerial determinations in the telecoms sector and announced the schedule to be followed ahead of February 1. This comes as a result of Icasa’s two-day colloquium, which sought to engage the telecommunications sector on the scope of the determinations by Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri.
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/ 23 November 2004
George W Bush draped his pro-rich, pro-military, pro-Halliburton and profoundly un-American post-9/11 budget in the American flag. He threw the book of compassionate neo-conservatism at Congress with distracting stars and stripes covers. Now our compassionate neo-colonialist, RW Johnson, has swaddled his own book in our South African flag, writes Ronald Suresh Roberts.