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/ 25 February 2004
More than 20 aftershocks rattled northwestern Morocco through the night and into Wednesday morning in the wake of the killer earthquake on Tuesday that claimed more than 560 lives in the region of Al Hoceima. One of the aftershocks measured 4,2 on the Richter scale, after the primary quake that registered 6,3.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=31755">Flouting of building law blamed</a>
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/ 25 February 2004
Chris Harry is a model employee for the United States’s call centre industry. The 25-year-old arrives promptly at his cubicle, speaks courteously on the phone and is never late or absent. He plans to stick with his job for three years, a boon in an industry plagued by high turnover.
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/ 25 February 2004
The South African Transport Workers Union (Satawu) on Wednesday accused the airports baggage handing company Equity Aviation of "lying" in the media about an
ongoing strike dispute. Satawu said it was astonished at the lengths Equity Aviation was prepared to go to to misrepresent the truth about the current dispute.
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/ 25 February 2004
Media ethics are once again in the spotlight after popular television presenter Siphiwe Mtshali announced his intention to sue the Sunday World newspaper for defamation after it published photographs of a couple having sex in a car outside a nightclub and it claimed it was Mtshali.
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/ 25 February 2004
South African telecommunications company Telkom is facing a fine of billions of rands for anti-competitive practices. The Competition Commission found on Tuesday that Telkom had "abused its dominant position by engaging in a pattern of anti-competitive practices", said commissioner Menzi Simelane.
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/ 25 February 2004
World leaders must address the ”ethical vacuum” at the heart of globalisation or face the danger that the widening gap between rich and poor will lead to further conflict, political upheaval and war, the International Labour Organisation said on Tuesday.
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/ 25 February 2004
It is, you might think, the sort of thing that only happens in the fantastical, colourful world of ”magical reality” conjured up in the stories by the Colombian Nobel prize-winner Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez.
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/ 25 February 2004
The British Home Office is in negotiation with Tanzania over a £4-million aid deal to take failed Somali asylum seekers from Britain and house them in a camp, The Guardian has learned. A Home Office team went to Dar es Salaam last year for discussions with their counterparts in the Tanzanian government.
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/ 25 February 2004
President George Bush on Tuesday plunged headlong into the United States’s culture wars, allying himself with the Christian right-wing of his Republican party by endorsing a constitutional amendment to ban same sex marriage, and calling heterosexual marriage ”the most fundamental institution of civilisation”.
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/ 25 February 2004
In the same week that the Swiss went to the polling booths to decide, among other things, what to do about dangerous criminals preying on their children, the people of Katlehong also made their views on the matter known. The East Rand community decided there and then to castrate a man who was allegedly caught raping a five-year-old child.