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/ 5 December 2006
The Gauteng legislature ordered provincial education minister Angie Motshekga to apologise for infringing its code of conduct by not disclosing her husband’s financial interests in dormant companies. The ethics and privileges committee also warned speaker Richard Mdakane not to declare certain interests in the confidential section of the register of members’ interests instead of the public section.
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/ 5 December 2006
Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon has formally asked President Thabo Mbeki to appoint a tribunal in terms of the Police Act to investigate the allegations made against police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi. ”At worst, the commissioner is possibly guilty of wrongdoing,” Leon said.
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/ 5 December 2006
A United States marine was sentenced on Monday to 40 years in prison for raping a Filipino woman. The keenly watched trial had sparked widespread anger at the United States’s military presence in the Philippines. In the nationally televised ruling, the judge, Benjamin Pozon, acquitted three other marines and their Filipino driver of complicity, but found Lance Corporal Daniel Smith guilty
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/ 5 December 2006
As trips to the dentist go, it was straightforward: José Padilla needed root canal treatment. But because he was classed as an ”enemy combatant” being held without charge in military detention as a suspected terrorist, preparations for the visit were anything but simple.
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/ 5 December 2006
Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi’ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi’ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war. Gunmen killed the 14 employees of a Shi’ite religious foundation in the capital, while officials said three car bombs killed 16 people and wounded 25.
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/ 5 December 2006
Australia and New Zealand have been urged to put national rivalries aside and do what many say is unthinkable — merge to form a single nation. A committee of Australian lawmakers said in a report that the Tasman Sea neighbours should consider legal and monetary union with a view to eventually becoming one country.
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/ 5 December 2006
Gunmen killed 15 employees of a Shi’ite religious foundation on Tuesday, a day after one of Iraq’s most powerful Shi’ite leaders urged President George Bush to strike harder against Sunni rebels to avert a civil war. In a separate attack, three car bombs killed 16 people and wounded 25 near a fuel station in a religiously mixed area in southern Baghdad, officials said.
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/ 5 December 2006
Chiliboy Ralepelle, who became the first black captain of South Africa’s rugby side when he led them against the World XV in a non-Test fixture on Sunday, said the Springboks’ tour to Ireland and England was a chilly learning experience. ”The tour was all about getting everyone ready for Test rugby,” Ralepelle told reporters in Johannesburg.
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/ 5 December 2006
Australia beat England by six wickets with 19 balls to spare on an extraordinary final day to win the second Test and take a 2-0 lead in the Ashes series on Tuesday. Australia needed 168 for victory off 36 overs after England’s batting inexplicably crumbled, the touring side losing their last nine wickets for 60 runs to be all out for just 129.
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/ 5 December 2006
This week, a major film opens in the United States. Nothing unusual about that, but this one is unique. It has no stars, its plot is obscure, it has a made-up word for a title, it is told in a Mayan dialect and it has subtitles. Oh, and its famous director is most recently known for an anti-semitic outburst he unleashed this summer when stopped for drunk driving near his home in Malibu.