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/ 21 November 2006
A community of shack dwellers in the dusty Cape Town township of Mfuleni gathered on Monday to thank a group of Irish volunteers building brick homes to replace their corrugated iron ones. A group of around 350 volunteers are in Africa’s southernmost city this week to help build 50 houses in Mfuleni as part of a larger project to build 720 houses.
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/ 21 November 2006
How far can Parliament go in recommending changes in the structure and functioning of Chapter 9 and related institutions? At most it could suggest constitutional amendments to change appointment procedures and areas of responsibility, and perhaps even the continued existence of some bodies.
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/ 21 November 2006
Forces loyal to Jean-Pierre Bemba, the losing candidate in the presidential election in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), on Tuesday fired at police who were trying to break up a protest against the election results. Police fired tear gas at about 200 supporters of Bemba to prevent them getting too close to the Supreme Court.
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/ 21 November 2006
No further arrests have been made in connection with the murder of mining magnate Brett Kebble, police said on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said she could not say whether there had been any new developments in the case since the arrest last week of Glenn Agliotti.
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/ 21 November 2006
Ethiopia and Eritrea on Monday rejected a proposal put forward by an independent boundary commission as a way around a four-year impasse over the demarcation of their shared border. The Horn of Africa neighbors fought a war from 1998 to 2000 over a frontier area of dusty villages and scrubby plains during which 70 000 people were killed.
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/ 21 November 2006
First National Bank will launch cellphone banking in Botswana on Friday, which will make every handset a potential banking channel. The service will at first only be available on the Mascom network, which has approximately 500 000 subscribers.
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/ 21 November 2006
Japanese auto buffs with a passion for classic European designs will get to be builder, mechanic and driver with new do-it-yourself cars unveiled on Tuesday. The miniature car requires the owner to put together all the parts of the car, from the steering wheel to the brakes, with the help of a set of tools and an instruction manual.
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/ 21 November 2006
The three snorkels broke the surface of the ocean, tiny specks far off the Pacific coast of Costa Rica, and at a steady clip skimmed towards the United States. Six feet beneath the waves throbbed a vessel like no other, a 15m-long wood and fibreglass submarine carrying a fortune in cocaine and a crew with a mission improbable.
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/ 21 November 2006
Peter Jackson, director of the Lord of the Rings trilogy, the multiple Oscar-winning box-office leviathan, has revealed that he will not be making the next film based on the JRR Tolkien series, The Hobbit, after receiving a telephone call from a Hollywood studio executive.
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/ 21 November 2006
Tributes were flooding in for Australian swimmer Ian Thorpe after he announced his retirement on Tuesday at the age of 24. Political figures, former swimmers, coaches and officials all joined in acknowledging the achievements of a man who won 11 world titles, five Olympic gold medals and set 13 individual long-course world records in a glittering career.