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/ 19 February 2004
Llewellyn Herbert will be looking to post an Olympic A standard qualifying performance, pocket some Absa incentive and get the better of high-riding hurdlers Okkert Cilliers and Alwyn Myburgh in the third Absa Series meeting of the season at the Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria on Friday night.
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/ 18 February 2004
Reaction to tax cuts in Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s annual Budget speech has been favourable. But an economist said there was still not enough detail on black economic empowerment. ”I hope there won’t be unrealistic restrictions that will in turn create barriers for BEE. The devil is in the details,” he said.
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/ 18 February 2004
The United States and most European countries will not appear at the International Court of Justice in The Hague to press their arguments regarding the legality of the Israeli barrier in the Palestinian territories, a diplomat said on Wednesday. Thirteen countries will participate when the United Nations court convenes on Monday.
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/ 18 February 2004
Judgement has been reserved in the Cape High Court matter where an NGO is trying to overturn the government’s decision to enter into the multibillion-rand arms deal. The NGO is challenging a decision by Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to enter into foreign loan agreements that finance the deal.
‘Minister Manuel lied under oath’
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/ 18 February 2004
Court cases expected to determine the future of Zimbabwe’s popular anti-government newspaper the Daily News were postponed on Wednesday to next month, lawyers said. The two-week delay means the status of the paper will remain uncertain following its closure last September and short-lived reopening last month.
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/ 18 February 2004
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The Democratic Alliance will lay a charge of incitement to violence against the African National Congress, South African Communist Party and Congress of South African Trade Unions in the Limpopo province after the three organisations brandished placards with proclaiming: ”Enough is enough — Kill the farmer, kill the boer” and other slogans.
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/ 18 February 2004
The son of Gauteng safety and security minister Nomvulo Mokonyane appeared at the Krugersdorp Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday on charges of theft and malicious damage to property. He was arrested in August last year after he had allegedly broken into his aunt’s house.
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/ 18 February 2004
There is good news for South Africans this Budget day in the form of small, personal income tax cuts and decreases in transfer duties on houses, but there is also bad news, including further hikes in so-called sin taxes.
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/ 18 February 2004
The 2004/05 Budget lives up to expectations, said Nedbank’s group chief economist Dennis Dykes on Wednesday. ”It doesn’t divert too significantly away from what was expected,” Dykes said of Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Budget delivered to Parliament on Wednesday.
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/ 18 February 2004
Close to 200 people were killed and hundreds of others injured on Wednesday when runaway rail wagons loaded with an explosive cocktail of sulphur, petrol and fertiliser derailed and blew up in northeast Iran, local officials said after a day of wildly varying tolls.