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/ 23 November 2003
Criticism was mounting against the British Foreign Office on Saturday for leaving the British consulate in Istanbul exposed to a terrorist attack, despite repeated warnings of a high level of threat. Questions were asked about why Britain had not moved its consulate to a more secure part of the city, as the Americans had done.
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/ 23 November 2003
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan spoke on Saturday of his shame that the bombers who blew themselves up in a week of carnage in Istanbul were fellow Turks as police rounded up more suspects. But Erdogan vowed that the predominantly Muslim nation would not be cowed by the two sets of massive attacks.
Istanbul bombs: Warnings ‘ignored’
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/ 23 November 2003
South Africa’s exporters went into worry mode again this week as the rand hit a 42-month high against the dollar amid indications that the currency is set to strengthen even further. Nearly all exporting businesses have been reporting sharp losses this year due mainly to the rand’s ongoing strength.
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/ 23 November 2003
There has been no decision taken yet about the participation of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe in next month’s Commonwealth summit to be staged in Abuja, Nigerian presidential spokesperson Remi Oyo said on Saturday. Zimbabwe has been suspended from the Commonwealth’s councils for the past 20 months.
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/ 23 November 2003
The South African National Editors Forum on Saturday called ”for an immediate withdrawal of the calling of journalists to testify and provide documentation” after learning that the Hefer Commission of Inquiry intends to subpoena and request more journalists to give evidence at its investigation in Bloemfontein.
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/ 23 November 2003
After years of being labelled as highly corrupt, Kenya has put a number of measures in place to curb graft. The government is hoping that this will attract foreign investors back to the East African country. "Kenya is now open for business," President Mwai Kibaki said this week.
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/ 23 November 2003
The Americans suffered their first-ever Presidents Cup cleansweep defeat on Saturday when the internationals went on a 6-0 rampage over the Fancourt Links thanks to a breakthrough by Vijay Singh and Retief Goosen, who cracked the valuable Tiger Woods/Charles Howell III link in thrilling four-ball action.
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/ 22 November 2003
Former Truth and Reconciliation commissioners have expressed concern about the once-off payment being disbursed as final reparations to victims of apartheid identified by the TRC. This week the government starts disbursing the final payment of about R30 000 to each of the identified 18 000 victims.
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/ 22 November 2003
Two car bombs, one of them driven by a suicide attacker, exploded on Saturday at police stations in a pair of towns near Baghdad, killing at least 16 people, most of them policemen, United States and Iraqi officials said. One of the dead in the Khan Bani Saad explosion was a five-year-old girl.
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/ 22 November 2003
President George Bush returned from a state visit to Britain insisting on the importance of the ”special relationship” between the two countries despite public hostility to the United States-led occupation of Iraq. The three days of pomp and splendour were marked by a huge demonstration against the president in London.