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/ 9 December 2005
The fire which broke out on Friday on the back slopes of Table Mountain is still raging out of control and has damaged buildings in a youth camp. Cape Town fire control officer Mark Bosch said the fire was now burning on two fronts. There had been reports that the south easter, which is driving the flames, was reaching 45kph, he said.
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/ 9 December 2005
A political storm is breaking around a Cape Town journalist who has been suspended over his alleged moonlighting for the Western Cape provincial government and for links through his wife’s company to supporters of Premier Ebrahim Rasool.
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/ 9 December 2005
South African government negotiators played a central role in charting a future for reducing climate change at the giant United Nations conference in Montreal recently. Alf Wills, leader of the 50-strong South African delegation, presided over a central committee trying to ensure a way forward for the Kyoto Protocol and its attempts to limit harmful greenhouse gas emissions.
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/ 9 December 2005
Italian porn stars were up in arms on Thursday over plans by Silvio Berlusconi’s government to introduce a tax on their work. The proceeds from the proposed new ”porn tax” would go towards paying for working mothers to afford baby-sitters.
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/ 9 December 2005
Australian quick Brett Lee could kill a batsman unless cricketing authorities take action to prevent the beamers that have become a regular feature of his bowling, former New Zealand wicketkeeper Adam Parore said on Friday.
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/ 9 December 2005
New Zealand remains angry with Australia over its decision to back Japan for the 2011 Rugby World Cup despite the resignation of Australian chairman Dilip Kumar over the dispute. But in a terse statement Friday NZRU chairman Jock Hobbs said the resignation had changed nothing.
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/ 9 December 2005
It was once called Boxing Day. Now Bafana Bafana coach Ted Dumitru’s plan to start preparations for the African Nations Cup on the day after Christmas has received a shuddering, if not decisive knock-out blow from Fifa.
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/ 9 December 2005
Amakhosi have upset The Buccaneers’ applecart once this season and proved to themselves they have the ability to do it again. The form team, however, remains Pirates. A victory for Pirates will place them firmly in front on the title trail and all but eliminate defending champions Chiefs’ hopes.
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/ 9 December 2005
High-risk offenders in prisons will have their privileges curbed over the festive season to prevent possible escape attempts, says Correctional Services Minister Ngconde Balfour. Many offenders did all in their power to escape from incarceration, apparently in pursuit of further criminal activities over this time.
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/ 9 December 2005
Visitors to the Abu Aishe family in the heart of the biblical and bitterly-disputed city of Hebron either require an army escort to the front of the steel mesh cage protecting the three-storey home or risk assault by a barrage of stones, rotting food and shouts of ”Death to Arabs” from the neighbours.