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/ 22 February 2005
As Information Minister, Jonathan Moyo made his reputation as the architect of the government’s campaign to silence criticism, and still had time to get his own jingles aired on state television. Moyo was fired over the weekend, but he has left a legacy of laws that effectively deny government critics a means of disseminating information.
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/ 22 February 2005
Peace talks between Ugandan authorities and the rebel Lord’s Resistance Army will go on beyond the end this week of a unilateral government ceasefire, officials said on Tuesday. However, as the talks continue, Kampala will press ahead with military operations against the rebels, whose ranks the government maintains have been decimated.
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/ 22 February 2005
South African oil and chemicals group Sasol on Tuesday touched an all-time high on the JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) on the group’s strong earnings outlook. On Tuesday, Sasol announced that it expects that its headline earnings per share for the half-year ending December 2004 to be about 60% higher than in the previous comparative period.
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/ 22 February 2005
Foreign ministers from 15 African countries have agreed to press demands for Africa to be granted two veto-wielding permanent seats at the United Nations Security Council, ambassadors said on Tuesday. The ministers are to draw up a response to UN Secretary General Kofi Annan’s blueprint for UN reform.
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/ 22 February 2005
Kenyan authorities believe three terrorism suspects detained at the weekend are potential suicide bombers who may be linked to this month’s murder of a British Broadcasting Corporation journalist in Somalia, a senior police official said on Monday.
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/ 22 February 2005
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Former president Nelson Mandela offered to help to ”extinguish” the debt of Deputy President Jacob Zuma. Testifying at his fraud and corruption trial on Tuesday, Schabir Shaik said Mandela felt Zuma’s financial problems were ”distracting him from his duties at the African National Congress”.
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/ 22 February 2005
African intellectuals who had sat on the sidelines while the New Partnership for Africa’s Development was prepared, and complained about not being consulted, should now stand up and be counted. This was the challenge of President Thabo Mbeki, who addressed the 11th General Conference of the Association of African Universities in Cape Town on Tuesday.
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/ 22 February 2005
Student leaders at the University of Johannesburg’s Bunting Road campus were regrouping on Tuesday morning after being banned from marching to the nearby former Rand Afrikaans University campus. Earlier, a large police contingent blocked the route the students were expecting to take in three waiting buses.
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/ 22 February 2005
New York officials on Monday began their pitch to host the 2012 summer Olympic Games in a series of meetings with the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Mayor Michael Bloomberg and his deputy, Daniel Doctoroff, led a team of experts in the field of sports to meet with the IOC’s 13-member evaluation commission.
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/ 22 February 2005
World high-jump champion Jacques Freitag was back on the winning trail on Sunday when he defeated a strong international field at the 2005 Tallinn Indoor Jumping Gala with a height of 2,28m. His win came after a lacklustre performance at the Stockholm meeting last Tuesday when he could not manage a height better than 2,21m.