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/ 8 November 2004
Nigerian doctors working in government hospitals on Monday began a two-day warning strike to press for the payment of salary arrears, officials said in a statement in Lagos. The National Association of Resident Doctors said the warning strike is aimed at reminding the federal government of the association’s pay demand.
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/ 8 November 2004
Zimbabwe’s opposition is accusing a committee appointed by President Robert Mugabe of tampering with voters’ lists ahead of key parliamentary elections in March. Movement for Democratic Change secretary general Welshman Ncube has cited irregularities in voter registration that took place between May and July this year.
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/ 8 November 2004
The trial of three Kenyans charged with plotting the bombing of the United States embassy in Kenya in August 1998, which killed more than 200 people, resumed in the Kenyan capital on Monday after a three-month break. The US embassy in Dar es Salaam, in neighbouring Tanzania, was bombed at nearly the same time, killing 11 people.
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/ 8 November 2004
An internet auction house in Germany on Monday featured what was said to be the bronze lower left leg of the statue of Saddam Hussein that was toppled in the heart of Baghdad last year as millions of television viewers watched. The 170cm cast-bronze leg from mid-thigh downward was all that was left standing on the plinth at al-Ferdaous Square in Baghdad.
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/ 8 November 2004
The man accused of murdering Diepkloof police station commissioner Senior Superintendent Shonisani Elias Mashau was not allowed to change his plea in the Johannesburg High Court on Monday. In an explanation of the plea change, Khumalo claimed a previous legal representative had offered to make up a version of events for him.
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/ 8 November 2004
An Italian prosecutor on Monday sought to probe the link between alleged Mafioso Vito Palazzolo and Count Riccardo Agusta, who achieved notoriety in the Roodefontein saga. The Cape Town Magistrate’s Court is hearing evidence for Palazzolo’s trial in absentia in Italy.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125163">Failed bid to charge Palazzolo</a>
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=125147">Stressed policeman unfit to testify</a>
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/ 8 November 2004
Seventies British pop star Leo Sayer said on Monday he will move to Australia to restart his career in a country that respects its musical heroes. The London-based, curly-headed singer had hits in Britain, the United States, Australia, Canada, Europe and South Africa with songs such as You Make Me Feel Like Dancing and When I Need You.
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/ 8 November 2004
It’s literally because he has an answer for everything that Ken Jennings is now rich and famous, having broken world records in a game-show winning streak that has Americans holding their breath. Jennings has won more than 65 games and correctly answered more than 2 000 questions since his first appearance on Jeopardy!.