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/ 7 February 2003
Africans will be the worst victims of a war in Iraq, according to the Stop the War Campaign. The campaign is a broad alliance of organisations that aim to mobilise South Africans against war in Iraq. Addressing a press conference the coalition announced a mass campaign in opposition to the war.
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/ 7 February 2003
Business and government departments are to blame for more than a third of the R25-billion in municipal debt, according to a study by the Department of Provincial and Local Government. The findings were tabled at an, called to discuss the crisis of municipal finances.
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/ 7 February 2003
Investigators for the Special Court for Sierra Leone may complete their work by June, the Court said this week. Depending on the information the investigators collect, the Court may thereafter indict and eventually try suspects.
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/ 7 February 2003
Preliminary results from a survey of the small, micro and medium enterprise sector in Cape Town, Durban and Gauteng show 83,3% of small companies connect to the Internet via modem and ISDN.
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/ 7 February 2003
<b>Movie of the week:</b> Schrader’s new movie, <i>Auto Focus</i>, is based on the real-life story of Bob Crane, a minor Sixties TV star who was found bashed to death in a hotel room in 1978. Shaun de Waal reviews.
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/ 7 February 2003
Jeff Radebe told Transnet to hand a privatisation tender to a company that was patently unsuited to the job – but in which the ruling ANC had an alleged financial stake. Now, after a court battle, the transport parastatal has to pay R57-million in damages.
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/ 7 February 2003
Members of the South African Maritime Authority board are divided over an investigation into CEO Sipho Msikinya, amid allegations that chairpersonis protecting him. The allegations of money squandering and mismanagement were disclosed by the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>.
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/ 7 February 2003
A man who allegedly crushed 12 wombats in an Australian national park by repeatedly running over them in his car has been charged with cruelty, police said on Friday.
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/ 7 February 2003
Closed-circuit television, controlled access to change-rooms, cellphone restrictions and scrutiny of players for "unusual or suspicious" behaviour are among the steps being taken by the ICC to make the 2003 World Cup corruption-free.
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/ 7 February 2003
The question of who is responsible for what in Parliament remained unresolved this week, after an unprecedented public spat that put Speaker Frene Ginwala at odds with her own party, the ANC. Parliamentarians suggested that the fight was symptomatic of larger problems.