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/ 14 October 2004
The African National Congress has rejected media speculation that it is opening debate on who is to succeed President Thabo Mbeki as South African leader. In a statement on Thursday — in response to such speculation — the party said it wants to clarify a number of issues regarding the leadership succession.
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/ 14 October 2004
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has urged the country’s Catholic Church to free itself from Western donations that are likely to ”suppress its voice”. ”In my view, the church … should extricate itself from offers of assistance that suppress its voice,” Mugabe said while addressing a meeting of regional Catholic bishops.
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/ 14 October 2004
Somali veteran politician and soldier Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed was sworn in as the new president of his Horn of Africa country on Thursday in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. Yusuf, who was elected on Sunday by members of his country’s transitional Parliament, took the oath of office before several African presidents.
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/ 14 October 2004
For Eitan Braun, a Jewish settler in the Gaza Strip, the equation is simple: "If Ariel Sharon falls, I get to keep my house." If the Israeli Prime Minister has his way, Braun and 8 000 fellow settlers will be uprooted from their homes next year as part of a wider plan that also envisages the strengthening of Israeli control over West Bank settlements.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-InternationalNews&ao=123723">Officer suspended over Gaza shooting</a>
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/ 14 October 2004
The heirs of a victim of Germany’s Nazi rule on Wednesday sued screen icon Elizabeth Taylor for ownership of a Van Gogh painting they claim rightfully belongs to them. The South African and Canadian descendants of a Jewish woman who fled Germany in the late 1930s say the actress should have known the painting had been stolen by the Nazis.
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/ 14 October 2004
The strategic black economic empowerment (BEE) partnership between listed financial services group Metropolitan and black-owned investment group Kagiso Trust Investments, details of which were announced in June, has been officially finalised with the transfer of both shares and money on the part of both partners.
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/ 14 October 2004
First National Bank (FNB) has announced that, through a pro-active approach and a basket of innovative products, it has secured the prestigious bank account of the South African Parliament. Parliament has approximately 1 300 people in its employ, which includes members as well as officials.
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/ 14 October 2004
Post-communist Bulgarians have reacted with shock to an increase in nudity and sexual innuendo in advertising, prompting the city fathers of Sofia to set up a committee to police the content of downtown billboards. Bulgarian advertising agencies have protested that they have to provoke in order to be successful.
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/ 14 October 2004
A Hong Kong teenager dressed in a black lace dress and high-heel boots was caught taking snaps of women in a public toilet, a press report said on Thursday. The 17-year-old was also wearing a long-haired wig when he was cornered in a toilet of a karaoke bar after a woman discovered he was using his cellphone to take pictures of her.