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/ 3 February 2004
South African impressionist and black comic Billy Prince has died after being injured in a car accident in November last year, Parker Leisure Management announced on Tuesday. Owner Joe Parker said Prince (42) was the first black comedian to appear on a white comedy programme in South Africa.
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/ 3 February 2004
Tension between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress had not been the cause of the IFP’s losing one of its three Cabinet posts, the presidency said on Tuesday. Former arts, culture, science and technology minister Ben Ngubane took up, from Monday, an ambassadorship to Japan.
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/ 3 February 2004
The British government will hold an inquiry into the intelligence used in deciding to go to war with Iraq, Prime Minister Tony Blair said on Tuesday. The announcement comes a day after United States President George Bush announced he would name an independent, bipartisan inquiry into faulty intelligence in Iraq.
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/ 3 February 2004
Indonesia said on Tuesday that tests have shown it is suffering from the same strain of bird flu that has killed 12 people in Thailand and Vietnam. Indonesia was among the last countries in the region to order a cull to stop the spread of the disease, which has hit 10 countries.
Germany tests two for bird flu
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/ 3 February 2004
Israel’s Prime Minister Ariel Sharon plans to hand over Arab Israeli towns to the Palestinians in exchange for settlement land in the West Bank in a future deal, his spokesperson Ranaan Gissin said on Tuesday. ”These exchanges can only take place if we have a Palestinian partner and terrorism is stifled,” Gissin said.
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/ 3 February 2004
A new education initiative has been started in Swaziland to assist children who have lost parents to the Aids pandemic. The government says it will start paying the tuition fees of all Aids orphans, many of whom would not be able to attend school otherwise.
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/ 3 February 2004
One of the United Kingdom’s fastest-growing insurance companies, the Budget Group, has announced its decision to set up a call centre in Cape Town, in an investment valued at R100-million. The call-centre industry in Cape Town already comprises more than 70 companies.
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/ 3 February 2004
The Road Accident Fund Amendment Bill of 2003 and its successor were deliberated in the parliamentary committee on transport from November 19 to October 3. Minister of Transport Dullah Omar said deliberations in the committee were useful and that it should proceed with aspects of the Bill that are not contentious.
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/ 3 February 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange South Africa (JSE) defied conventional wisdom on Tuesday by coming off its opening lows despite continued strength in the rand, which would normally weigh heavily on dual-listed and resources stocks. At midday the rand was quoted at R6,93 per dollar from R7,05 when the JSE closed on Monday.
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/ 3 February 2004
Tropical storm Elita hit the Indian Ocean island state of Madagascar early on Tuesday — returning to the country for the second time in a week — but there were no initial reports of casualties, weather officials said. Elita left two people dead and 5Â 000 homeless when it first hit the island on January 28.