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/ 22 November 2004
The Department of Minerals and Energy said on Monday it had embarked on a process to introduce new power generation capacity to meet the country’s growing demand for electricity. According to the national integrated resource plan recently published by the national electricity regulator, there is a need for over 2Â 500 megawatts (MW) of new peaking capacity between 2006 and 2010.
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/ 22 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s main opposition leader took his campaign against President Robert Mugabe to Britain on Sunday, rallying expatriates and declaring their destitute southern African country ready for ”regime change”. ”We want regime change in Zimbabwe. But we want regime change by through the ballot, not the bullet,” said Morgan Tsvangirai, the head of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC).
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/ 22 November 2004
South African President Thabo Mbeki held a second day of talks on Sunday with Côte d’Ivoire rebel leader Guillaume Soro and Prime Minister Seydou Diarra to broker peace in the war-wracked West African nation. Rebel leader Soro hailed Mbeki’s insight into the Ivorian crisis but said no lasting solution could be found as long as President Laurent Gbagbo remained in power.
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/ 22 November 2004
More than 60 countries agreed to ban the killing of sharks for their fins in the Atlantic Ocean, a move that conservationists hope will increase protection of threatened species around the world. The agreement bans the practice known as shark finning in which fishermen slice off a shark’s fin and throw the carcass overboard, leaving room for more fins.
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/ 22 November 2004
Delegates to South Africa’s official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA) federal congress in Durban over the weekend were greeted by a flood of posters on just about every lamp post in the area surrounding the International Convention Centre, advertising the candidacy of an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) candidate and a DA candidate for the local municipal ward.
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/ 22 November 2004
Pam Golding Properties, South Africa’s largest independent real estate company, has been awarded three five-star awards at the Bentley International Property Awards in London in the categories of best South African estate agent, best advertising agent and best estate agency marketing.
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/ 22 November 2004
South Africa’s Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin on Monday launched the country’s first initial public offering (IPO) reference manual, which contains detailed information on the steps required to execute a successful IPO. The manual outlines challenges involved in IPO processes.
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/ 22 November 2004
Tributes have poured in for the National Council of Provinces chairperson Joyce Kgoali, who died in Johannesburg on Sunday. The African National Congress Women’s League called their late executive committee and working committee member ”unassuming and forthright” with an ”unshakeable” commitment to the
organisation’s policies.
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/ 22 November 2004
Dancehall reggae musicians are fuelling the spread of HIV/Aids in the Caribbean and the United Kingdom by their homophobic lyrics, a British government minister will say on Monday. In June, the Jamaican gay rights leader Brian Williamson was stabbed to death. Crowds gathered outside his home, singing in the street to celebrate his murder.
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/ 22 November 2004
He may not be his party’s most famous action hero, but United States President George Bush bolstered his tough-guy credentials on Saturday night when he waded into a melee in Santiago to rescue one of his secret service bodyguards. Bush reached into the crowd and yanked out the bodyguard, then walked away, straightening his cuffs and looking none too pleased.