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/ 4 November 2004
World number-six gold miner Harmony on Thursday announced details of its proposed cost-saving measures, which it said will deliver at least R1-billion a year in improved pre-tax operating profit at Gold Fields’ South African operations. Harmony will do this through applying the "Harmony way".
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/ 4 November 2004
Government warplanes bombed the largest city in Côte d’Ivoire’s rebel-held north on Thursday in what a government military commander said was the launch of a new offensive to reunite the war-divided nation. The raid threatened to restart Côte d’Ivoire’s civil war, ended by a 2003 peace deal after nine months of fighting.
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/ 4 November 2004
The South African government’s refusal to disclose the number of children receiving anti-retroviral drugs in KwaZulu-Natal has raised fears among Aids activists that children’s rights to health care and life are being violated. A survey at 13 of KwaZulu-Natal’s public hospitals found only 39 children were receiving anti-Aids medication.
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/ 4 November 2004
A Swedish hunter saved the life of his dog by killing a golden eagle that attacked it in Lapland, northern Sweden, reports said on Thursday. Stefan Stalnacke was out hunting for capercaillies (a large, turkey-like grouse) in the forests near his home in Vittangi, 150km above the Arctic Circle, when the eagle suddenly swooped down on to his dog.
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/ 4 November 2004
Zimbabwe police re-arrested Zanu-PF businessman James Makamba along with two senior executives from his cellular network company, Telecel. The company’s managing director Anthony Carter and company secretary Edward Mutsvairo are currently in custody with Makamba, with all three being accused of ”externalising foreign currency”.
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/ 4 November 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) had moved into positive territory by midday on Thursday, after starting marginally weaker amid a strong rand. Although the rand remained firm by midday, it was off its intraday best levels amid dollar demand. By midday, the all-share index was up 0,29% and the industrial index added 0,68%.
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/ 4 November 2004
Joe Ncube, a Zimbabwean asylum seeker, spent a week in the Lindela Repatriation Centre in Krugersdorp. This is his story…
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/ 4 November 2004
Ayaan Hirsi Ali has called the prophet Muhammad a ”lecherous tyrant”, Islam a ”backward religion”, and the Koran ”in part a licence for oppression”. Theo van Gogh dubbed Muslims ”goat-fuckers”, a radical Islamic leader ”Allah’s pimp”, and Islam a ”retrograde and aggressive” faith.
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/ 4 November 2004
Botswana’s High Court on Wednesday resumed hearings into a land claim case brought by San Bushmen challenging their resettlement from what they claim is ancestral land in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. After a three-month break, the High Court began hearing the state present its case in Lobatse, south of the capital, but the proceedings quickly got bogged down.
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/ 4 November 2004
Twenty-four percent of urban-dwelling South Africans are in favour of abortion on demand, a market research company said on Thursday. Research Surveys said in a statement they had surveyed a sample of 500 adults living in metropolitan areas and with access to a landline telephone.