No image available
/ 4 November 2005
Individuals with ”criminally selfish motives” should be prevented from being elected municipal councillors, President Thabo Mbeki said on Friday. The president spoke on the last day of a sitting of the National Council of Provinces in Nkowankowa outside Tzaneen in Limpopo.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
Johannesburg and Pretoria recorded the highest temperatures for November in 40 years on Thursday, the South African Weather Service said on Friday. Forecaster Lee-Ann Clark said Pretoria sweated in a sweltering temperature of 39 degrees Celsius on Thursday, while Johannesburg recorded 34.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
Police officers in Zimbabwe will be given houses under the government’s ambitious housing-construction programme, the state-controlled Herald newspaper reported on Friday. Government ministers have promised that hundreds of thousands of homes will be built in the next four years.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
The United States has called for a thorough investigation of alleged irregularities in polls that led, amid opposition claims of fraud, to this week’s re-election of President Amani Abeid Karume of the offshore Tanzanian state of Zanzibar. ”We remain troubled by the irregularities,” the US embassy in Zanzibar said.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
The eight young elephants that survived burn injuries in veld fires in the Pilanesberg Nature Reserve will be released back into the wild. The elephants will be kept in bomas and will eventually be released to join herds. Three female elephants have already been identified as possible matriarchs for the orphaned elephants.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
![]()
A further two accused have been added to the indictment against former deputy president Jacob Zuma, the National Prosecuting Authority said on Friday. Thint Holding (Southern Africa), formerly known as Thomson-CSF, and Thint, formerly known as Thomson, will be accused numbers two and three respectively.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
South Africa’s final codes of good practice on black economic empowerment (BEE) — released this week — will add "a whole new regulatory layer" to the South African industry, said official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon in his regular Friday internet column, <i>SA Today</i>.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
At least 60 people on their way to a memorial died on Friday when their overloaded ferry capsized in the Arabian Sea off southern Pakistan, a navy spokesperson said. The accident occurred near the remote coastal town of Kharo Chao, about 180km south-east of the port city of Karachi.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
Sunni-led insurgents killed six Iraqi police at a checkpoint on Friday and fired a mortar round that struck a home outside the capital, killing a mother and child, as Shi’ites began celebrating a major Muslim holiday. Meanwhile, in a statement posted on an Islamic website, al-Qaeda in Iraq threatened more attacks on diplomats in the country.
No image available
/ 4 November 2005
Minister of Provincial and Local Government Sydney Mufamadi will not be visiting Khutsong residents near Carletonville on Friday afternoon, his office said. Residents of the township have been protesting since Wednesday against a proposal that the Merafong municipality be included in the North West province.