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/ 5 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange was near an all-time high on Friday afternoon on the
weaker rand, resources stocks and buying interest in banks, brokers said. At 12.05am, the all share index was up 1,33% and the industrial index added 0,74%. Resources climbed 1,96%, while the gold mining index was up 1,04%.
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/ 5 November 2004
Michael Jackson faced fresh legal woes on Thursday after a man claimed to have recently remembered that the superstar sexually assaulted him 20 years ago. Court documents seen here showed that Joseph Bartucci filed suit this week in the state of Louisiana, claiming that repressed memories had revealed that Jackson repeatedly forced him into sex in May 1984.
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/ 5 November 2004
Doctors on Friday urged that a television programme set to show a man eating live centipedes and cockroaches be cancelled, saying it might endanger the lives of copycat youngsters. Local newspapers published front-page photographs of Wek Srikhaimook — nicknamed ”Wek Cockroach” — eating the insects during a taping of the show, which is to be aired on Monday.
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/ 5 November 2004
Palestinians are well-prepared for the death of Yasser Arafat. Through television reports of foreigners paying homage at Arafat’s battered compound and prison, Palestinians have watched their 75-year-old leader degenerate into a feeble, shaking and often incoherent shadow over the past two years.
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/ 5 November 2004
Three hundred years from now, the world’s population will have stabilised at about nine billion and most of us will look forward to living until age 95. In Japan, that bastion of longevity, people will be hanging around until they’re 106. India, China and the United States will still be the most populous countries on the planet — if they still exist — and Africa’s share of the world’s population will double to 25%.
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/ 5 November 2004
Specialist photographer at Beeld, Jan Hamman, died at his home on Friday morning after a long battle with cancer. Known for his wildlife and sports photography, Hamman had a hand in the fame of cricketer Jonty Rhodes, with his image of the fielding legend diving for a ball, said Beeld chief photographer, Halden Krog.
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/ 5 November 2004
Some time, way back, time stopped in Soguksu. Here, high in the mountains of Turkey, close to the border with Iran, the lives of carpet-weaving girls are measured solely in knots. Behind the breezeblock walls of impoverished homes, on slushy streets overrun by sheep, their dreary regimen is dictated at birth.
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/ 5 November 2004
The Department of Education turned up the heat on Thursday by dismissing teachers’ claims that the government has betrayed its salary promises. Buck-passing within the government over teachers’ salaries has let down teachers and now puts the future of 700 000 matric learners currently writing exams at risk, all four teacher unions say.
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/ 5 November 2004
South African struggle history and self-help books are all the rage with book thieves in Johannesburg. Recently retired librarian Jane McArthur told the Mail & Guardian, ”The last three years I was working at Rosebank public library it just became a joke. Among the most frequently stolen books is, oddly enough, Conversations with God.
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/ 5 November 2004
The agricultural portfolio committee in the Eastern Cape has asked the provincial minister for agriculture, Max Mamase, to explain allegations that the bond on his R2,7-million home is partially funded by a local citrus farmer. Last week the M&G revealed that Mamase may have received kickbacks in the form of bond payments for his East London house from Norman Benjamin.