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/ 28 October 2005
Firefighters were on Friday working to contain a fire in the Rocklands and Elandsriver areas outside Port Elizabeth, a fire official said. Meanwhile, technicians were battling to restore power in parts of the Klein Karoo left without electricity after a fire, Eskom said on Friday.
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/ 28 October 2005
It’s not only shebeens and quarts of beer in Soweto. This weekend sees the fourth instalment of the yearly Soweto Beer Festival, where enthusiasts will be able to taste more than 40 beers. Godfrey Mautloa, owner of Masakeng Pub and Grill, started this initiative four years ago and expects 80Â 000 people to attend the four-day event.
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/ 28 October 2005
It’s one of the stranger consequences of globalisation: in India, salesmen are going door to door selling satellite radios that receive, among other things, National Public Radio’s All Things Considered. The company behind this combination of 1930s-style marketing and space-age technology is WorldSpace, a Washington, DC-based outfit that is trying to make satellite radio a global phenomenon.
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/ 28 October 2005
The Premiership is quiet. Too quiet. By this time last year, Paul Sturrock had been ditched by Southampton, doddery Bobby Robson was thrown out at rock-bottom Newcastle, Graeme Souness had made too many enemies to stay at Blackburn Rovers and Gary Megson had accepted defeat at West Brom.
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/ 28 October 2005
There is no such thing as the paparazzi in Korea, and until the 2002 World Cup there was not even a word for ”footballer”, only for ”sportsman”. That, though, has not stopped Park Ji-Sung becoming ever more famous in his homeland. The Manchester United midfielder was the centre of attention earlier this month after a cultural misunderstanding.
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/ 28 October 2005
Black people from South Africa’s neighbouring states do not qualify for grants from the South African government in terms of its black economic empowerment (BEE) policies, says South African Trade and Industry Minister Mandisi Mpahlwa.
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/ 28 October 2005
Thieves have spirited away the "flying" Ford Anglia car used in the Harry Potter films, British police said on Friday. The blue 1960s-style car’s disappearing act took place from under a tarpaulin at South West Film Studios in St Agnes, Cornwall, southwest England.
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/ 28 October 2005
Election officials on Tanzania’s politically volatile Zanzibar archipelago met on Friday to consider a possible delay in polls set for this weekend after a postponement of the vote on the mainland. Members of the Zanzibar Electoral Commission were discussing whether to follow the lead of their mainland counterparts who put off Sunday’s scheduled elections there until mid-December.
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/ 28 October 2005
The price of petrol is be reduced by 31 cents per litre from Wednesday November 2, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The department said that during the period September 30 to October 27, the average international product prices for petrol, diesel and illuminating paraffin decreased.
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/ 28 October 2005
Mike van Graan asks if we, as taxpayers are really getting our money’s worth from the staff — especially the senior management — of the arts department.