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/ 22 October 2004
<i>Star Trek</i> star William Shatner and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Dave Navarro are among thousands who want to fly on Virgin’s proposed commercial space flights, company chief Richard Branson said on Friday. Branson said more than 7 000 people have registered their willingness to pay the R1,3-million fare.
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/ 22 October 2004
Five minerals and energy ministers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region have reaffirmed their commitment to ensure sufficient capacity within the region, South African government news agency BuaNews reported on Friday.
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/ 22 October 2004
Frans and Marian Sturkenboom shared their 29th wedding anniversary with a handful of onlookers, a few journalists and the entire world wide web, in a curious case of life imitating a computer game. The family is posing as a human version of <i>The Sims</i>, a popular game where players control a virtual family.
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/ 22 October 2004
Prince Harry has apologised to his father Prince Charles over a nightclub scuffle which left a press photographer with a cut lip after the prince threw a punch, London’s Evening Standard newspaper reported Friday. The paper said that 20-year-old Harry was ”extremely sorry” for his behaviour outside a London nightclub in the early hours of Thursday.
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/ 22 October 2004
Loyola de Palacio, the Spanish vice-president of the European Commission, was on Friday quoted by press reports as saying she hoped Cuban leader Fidel Castro would die as soon as possible. ”I hope he dies one day, and I hope to see it,” transport and energy commissioner de Palacio told Spanish journalists Thursday in Brussels.
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/ 22 October 2004
Like the career of its subject, London’s latest musical began in a blaze of publicity, set tongues wagging and ended, prematurely, in disgrace. Oscar Wilde: The Musical opened on Tuesday at the 500-seat Shaw Theatre. It closed the next day after receiving excoriating reviews and selling just five tickets for its second performance.
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/ 22 October 2004
South Africa’s Old Mutual Asset Managers (Omam) is still weighing its options regarding the bid by Harmony Gold for Gold Fields, Omam resources fund manager Patrice Rassou said on Friday. A key issue for Omam is that the fund manager feels that not all the information has been forthcoming from Gold Fields and Harmony.
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/ 22 October 2004
Foreign business chambers falling under the Bilateral Chamber Consultative Committee — an umbrella body representing 21 private-sector business groupings — have a high level of confidence in the South African economy. This was the message delivered on Friday to the National Assembly trade and industry committee.
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/ 22 October 2004
Two people were killed and five injured when a commercial building under construction in a south-eastern suburb of Kampala collapsed, crushing the building-site workers, police officials said on Friday. ”The building went down as the workers were pouring the concrete mix on the third floor,” the Kampala chief fire officer said.
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/ 22 October 2004
Like the career of its subject, London’s latest musical began in a blaze of publicity, set tongues wagging and ended, prematurely, in disgrace. Oscar Wilde: The Musical opened on Tuesday at the 500-seat Shaw Theatre. It closed the next day after receiving excoriating reviews and selling just five tickets for its second performance.