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/ 26 October 2004
Self-confessed coup plotter Deon Crous testified on Tuesday in the Boeremag treason trial in the Pretoria High Court that he and five of the Boeremag accused had decided to assassinate Mandela with a home-made bomb after reading in a newspaper that he would open a school near Tzaneen in Limpopo.
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/ 26 October 2004
Armed combatants have brutally raped tens of thousands of women, girls and babies in the war-ravaged Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), and many are dying "needlessly" because the country’s health care system is incapable of dealing with the crisis, rights group Amnesty International said on Tuesday.
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/ 26 October 2004
Politicians and economists have reacted to Tuesday’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement, tabled by Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel in Parliament on Tuesday. George Glynos, market analyst at Econometrix Treasury Management, said: "One has to say that it was a relatively optimistic and fair speech."
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/ 26 October 2004
The attorney general of Equatorial Guinea lied when he applied to the South African government for Mark Thatcher to undergo questioning, the Cape High Court heard on Tuesday. Advocate Peter Hodes was arguing Thatcher’s bid for the overturn of a subpoena ordering him to answer questions on an alleged coup plot in Equatorial Guinea.
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/ 26 October 2004
Medicine pricing was thrown into further confusion on Tuesday when the Pharmacy Council confirmed it is scrapping its guidelines for fees charges on top of legislated dispensing fees. The fees were introduced on October 15 in a bid to cover operating costs not covered by the maximum R26 dispensing fee.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Gauteng province will consider increasing taxes to raise extra funds if research shows this to be justified, the provincial treasury said in Pretoria on Tuesday. Addressing the Gauteng legislature’s finance portfolio committee, Nomfundo Tshabalala, acting deputy director general, said greater revenue raising powers were needed in the province.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Tibetan Buddhist spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, will visit South Africa in November, it was announced on Tuesday. The Dalai Lama will spend a week in South Africa from November 3-7, according to an official release issued by his office in Dharmshala in the northern Indian hill state of Himachal Pradesh.
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/ 26 October 2004
Somalia’s newly elected president said on Monday his administration will not remain in exile, but will return to the war-ravaged country before security is completely restored. President Abdullahi Yusuf said once his Cabinet is selected it will return — although it will initially establish itself outside the capital, Mogadishu.
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/ 26 October 2004
The Medium Term Budget Policy Statement was tabled in the National Assembly on Tuesday by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel. It addressed several issues, including South Africa’s financial commitment to continental bodies such as the African Union, and the country’s current account deficit.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=124422">’No major surprises'</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za//Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-Business&ao=124405">Rand stability is policy goal</a>
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/ 26 October 2004
British artists Damien Hirst and David Hockney are to make gifts of some of their paintings to the Tate Gallery in London, which can no longer afford such works, its director Nicholas Serota said on Monday. It is so broke that it is asking for gifts and legacies to maintain its internationally famous collection of works of modern and contemporary art.