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/ 26 February 2004
British intelligence agents spied on United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan in the run-up to the Iraq war, a former member of Prime Minister Tony Blair’s Cabinet said on Thursday. Blair refused to say whether the allegation was true, but said the former minister had been ”deeply irresponsible”.
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/ 26 February 2004
The South African government would like to see Zimbabwe enjoy the same press freedom that existed in this country, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday. He was addressing the Cape Town Press Club. ”We believe in press freedom,” Zuma said in a reply to a questioner.
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/ 26 February 2004
Homeless Talk, most often seen on the dashboards of the well-heeled from Johannesburg’s northern suburbs, is now going online. News provider I-Net Bridge said this week that it will be bringing the popular community newspaper to its subscribers at a cost of R500 a month.
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/ 26 February 2004
Tropical Cyclone Ivy cut a swathe through the centre of the South Pacific nation of Vanuatu on Thursday, tearing down homes, ripping out trees and cutting communications with winds of up to 190kph. Two Taiwanese fishing boats in the harbor of the capital, Port Vila, were driven ashore by pounding seas.
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/ 26 February 2004
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/41909/10-X-Logo.gif" align=left>Companies should be involved in the funding of political parties in order to contribute toward a vibrant multiparty political system, Andre Fourie, CEO of the National Business Initiative, told the Johannesburg Press Club on Thursday. Fourie said, however, that there should be fair disclosure of donations.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3_fl2.asp?o=40922">Special Report: Elections 2004</a>
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/ 26 February 2004
Gay marriage, likely to become a hot issue in this year’s United States presidential election, stirs little emotion in Europe although few countries have accepted it. Even The Netherlands, the first state to legalise homosexual civil marriage on April 1 2001, still restricts the ability of gays to adopt children.
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/ 26 February 2004
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has prepared a series of protest actions to support baggage handlers who have been on strike over a wage dispute for the past two months, Cosatu secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi said on Thursday.
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/ 26 February 2004
A pause for rest during a traverse in the Hex River Mountains led to the serendipitous discovery of a new species of Disa flower, a nursery manager at the Kirstenbosch botanical gardens said on Thursday. The new flower is related to the red Disa, which is unique to the Western Cape.
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/ 26 February 2004
In a statement issued on Thursday following the first of the monetary policy committee meetings for 2004, South African Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said the success achieved in bringing inflation down to levels last experienced in the 1960s has been a major accomplishment
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/ 26 February 2004
The South African Reserve Bank’s monetary policy committee decided on Thursday to leave the repo rate unchanged at 8%. Bank Governor Tito Mboweni said the expectation of the committee is that inflation will remain within the target range during the forecast period while the economy continues to pick up momentum.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=31824">Mboweni hails inflation success</a>