At least 100 Maasai tribesmen demonstrated on Friday in the Kenyan capital to demand back land ceded to British settlers under treaties signed with the colonial government in 1904 and 1911, which expire this weekend. The protesters, wearing traditional regalia, took to the streets carrying placards that poured scorn on Britain.
Filmmaker Michael Moore makes no apologies for his Bush-bashing documentary Fahrenheit 9/11, and his lawyer says he’ll make no apologies for its use of an Illinois newspaper headline, either. The Pantagraph says the headline, flashed briefly in the film, came from a letter to the editor about the 2000 presidential election recount but was doctored to look like a news story. Even the date was changed.
The ever-increasing emphasis on the development of small to medium-sized businesses in South Africa, to help combat the high unemployment rate, has led to a rise in the number of small building contractors. However, the existence of many of these registered small contractors is often short-lived.
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) remained in the black, but was off the boil, in noon trade on Friday on the back of a modest recovery in the rand. However, demand was still being seen for resources stocks, which benefit most from a softer currency. By 11.52am, the all-share index was up 0,32%.
Hurricane Charley zeroed in on Florida’s west coast on Friday and state officials urged about a million tourists and residents to evacuate and avoid the path of a storm that could submerge parts of this city’s downtown and other neighbouring areas. Charley’s expected 190kph winds and massive storm surge could devastate coastal areas.
Want to spend a few days holed up in Elvis Presley’s old digs — sleeping in his bedroom, eating in his kitchen? No, Graceland isn’t taking in boarders. But there might be a room available at the public housing apartment where Presley spent his teenage years.
Germany will finance infrastructure development on communal land in Namibia in a bid to boost land reform, the German Minister for Development Heidemarie Wiezcorek-Zeul said in Windhoek on Thursday. ”We will financially support initiatives on communal land to make that land more productive and develop its infrastructure,” she told reporters after meetings with President Sam Nujoma and Namibian Land Minister Hifikepunye Pohamba.
The council of Cape Town’s Peninsula Technikon has approved a severance package ”not exceeding” R2,3-million for vice-chancellor professor Brian Figaji. However the National Health and Allied Workers Union in the Western Cape has called on the national education ministry to intervene to reverse the council decision, which it says sets a bad precedent and is procedurally flawed.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa has ordered a probe into reports that State House, his office and residence, spent two billion kwacha ( 000) on beverages in a year, state television reported on Friday. ”I was alarmed, I think shocked is better, to learn State House spent two-billion kwacha on beverages,” Mwanawasa was quoted as saying by the state-run Zambia National Broadcasting Corporation.
London’s metropolitan police have for three years employed a serial burglar as a police constable, after the man simply lied about his past, The Daily Telegraph reported on Friday. The 34-year-old officer, who was patrolling the streets of Belgravia, one of the British capital’s most exclusive areas, has been suspended while investigations continue.