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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.
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/ 25 November 2004
A European judge has called for a closed-door meeting on Thursday to discuss the peace deals hammered out earlier this month between Microsoft and two of its biggest critics, the Computer and Communications Industry Association and the software firm, Novell.
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/ 25 November 2004
Insurgents increased their efforts to take control of Mosul on Wednesday, ambushing a convoy of Kurdish peshmerga fighters and attacking the Kurdish deputy governor of Nineveh province. The United States military commander in Mosul, Brigadier General Carter Ham, has warned that militants, mainly Sunni Arabs, are trying to foment civil war in the ethnically mixed city of 2-million.
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/ 25 November 2004
The British Foreign Secretary, Jack Straw, pressed Israel to re-embrace the road map to peace on a visit to Jerusalem on Wednesday. But although diplomats said there were signs of greater Israeli flexibility since the death of Yasser Arafat, its foreign minister, Silvan Shalom, repeated that the Palestinians must first ”end terror”.
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/ 25 November 2004
England’s tour to Zimbabwe was on the brink of cancellation on Wednesday night after David Morgan, the chairperson of the England and Wales Cricket Board, instructed Michael Vaughan’s team not to board a flight to Harare an hour before it was scheduled to leave Johannesburg.
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/ 25 November 2004
The United States on Wednesday night raised the stakes in Ukraine’s election crisis when Colin Powell, the secretary of state, insisted that Washington would not accept the official result and threatened to ostracise the Russian-backed regime. His intervention, which sets the Bush administration on a collision course with Moscow, came as the opposition leader, Viktor Yushchenko, called for a nationwide strike.
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/ 25 November 2004
Mark Thatcher must submit to questioning in South Africa over his alleged role in an attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, the Cape Town high court ruled on Wednesday, compounding legal woes which he said had left him ”destroyed”. ”I will never be able to do business again. Who will deal with me?” he told Vanity Fair. ”Thank God my father is not alive to see this.”
Thatcher’s bail conditions extended
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/ 25 November 2004
They just don’t make ’em like they used to. This week, it took the grey-haired man in the purple cassock to crystallise the national psyche, with all its imperfections and its challenges, perfectly. With the benefit of wisdom and age, Archbishop Desmond Tutu made clear his love for his "rainbow nation" — and then he laid right in. It had, he argued, by and large become the sycophantic nation.