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/ 18 November 2003
The state does not intend to call Italian count Riccardo Agusta as a witness in the corruption trial of former Western Cape premier Peter Marais and David Malatsi. Agusta paid a R1-million fine after conceding that he ”unlawfully and corruptly” gave a R400 000 donation through the two men to the New National Party.
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/ 18 November 2003
Draft legislation to further streamline abortion laws has been tabled in Parliament. According to a memorandum attached to the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Amendment Bill, the measure seeks, among other things, to allow registered nurses who have undergone the prescribed training to perform abortions.
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/ 18 November 2003
After spending most of the morning in the black, the JSE Securities Exchange South Africa drifted into the red just before noon on Tuesday on the back of futures-related selling and European markets coming off their highs. Gold stocks also weighed on the local bourse.
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/ 18 November 2003
Heralding the end of an era, the last of the South African Navy’s ageing operational submarines will finally rise from the water like a metal leviathan to settle in Simon’s Town as part of a naval museum. The SAS Assegaai, one of the few remaining Daphne-class boats in the world, will be decommissioned next Friday.
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/ 18 November 2003
Former intelligence operative Mo Shaik handed reporter Ranjeni Munusamy an intelligence report stating that head prosecutor Bulelani Ngcuka was a probable apartheid spy, the Hefer commission heard on Tuesday.
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/ 18 November 2003
It hasn’t been a good year for Birmingham — England’s second city. But, despite various calamities, it turns out that the latest makeover is Birmingham as a sophisticated city, the least plausible and yet most ambitious of all its many reincarnations.
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/ 18 November 2003
The three-week strike at all major South African airports falling under the authority of the Airports Company South Africa on Monday came to an end after the company and the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union reached a wage settlement. The two parties have been at loggerheads over wage increases.
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/ 18 November 2003
The Hefer commission heard on Monday that spying allegations against National Director of Public Prosecutions Bulelani Ngcuka stemmed from the Scorpions’ arms deal investigation. Advocate Stephen Joseph, for former transport minister Mac
Maharaj, told Judge Joos Hefer that ”the whole saga” started with a Scorpions raid at Durban businessman Schabir Shaik’s premises in 2001.
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/ 18 November 2003
Mozambicans cast their vote in municipal elections on Wednesday ahead of what is expected to be a tight presidential race next year, but opposition parties say their voters are under-represented since polling will take place mainly in cities.
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/ 18 November 2003
A Sudanese cargo plane exploded while preparing to land at Wau airport in southern Sudan, killing all 13 aboard, state-run Omdurman radio repoted on Tuesday. The Antonov 12 was carrying food and money on a routine flight late on Monday afternoon from Khartoum.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=23718">SPLA denies involvement</a>