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/ 2 November 2004
Authorities in Paris’s historic Pere Lachaise cemetery have sealed off one of its most-visited tombs to prevent the perpetration of lewd acts on the prostrate bronze form of a murdered 19th-century journalist. The funerary relic of Victor Noir has long been held as an aid to love or fertility by women.
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/ 2 November 2004
Fathi Arafat, one of ailing Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat’s brothers, is being treated in a Cairo hospital for terminal cancer, Palestinian sources said on Tuesday. The 67-year-old, whose cancer was diagnosed several years ago, is a trained doctor and was one of the founders of the Palestinian Red Crescent in 1968.
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/ 2 November 2004
The Ugandan army and police have arrested a Roman Catholic cleric they accuse of collaborating with Lord’s Resistance Army rebels, church sources said on Tuesday. Army spokesperson Major Shaban Bantariza confirmed the arrest, but declined to comment further.
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/ 2 November 2004
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The race between George Bush and John Kerry is not only a race that concerns the United States. The US president influences politics and economics all over the world. So, who do we prefer — and why? Who will be the best candidate for Africa? The Mail & Guardian Online asked South Africa’s political pros who they prefer.
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/ 2 November 2004
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Charges of crimen injuria and intimidation were laid on Tuesday against fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik. A police officer stationed at the Durban High Court claimed he was ”verbally and racially assaulted” before the resumption of Shaik’s trial on Tuesday morning.
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/ 2 November 2004
Democratic Alliance chief whip Douglas Gibson called on Tuesday for the immediate release of Zimbabwean opposition MP Roy Bennett and the suspension of links with Zimbabwe while Bennett is in prison. The DA also called on the world’s democratic Parliaments to refuse to have links with Zimbabwe while Bennett is held in prison.
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/ 2 November 2004
A pharmaceutical company producing Aids drugs in Zambia is ready to start clinical trials on 28 HIV-positive volunteers, the Zambia Daily Mail reported on Tuesday. Zambia is the first country in the Southern African region to produce anti-retroviral drugs outside South Africa.
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/ 2 November 2004
Minister of Correctional Services Ngconde Balfour and MPs experienced the toxic smoke and flammability of mattresses at Pollsmoor prison on Wednesday, where three inmates died in a fire last week. ”Honestly, we must check to change this,” said Dennis Bloem, chairperson of Parliament’s portfolio committee on correctional services.
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/ 2 November 2004
The National Council of Provinces (NCOP) was to meet later on Tuesday to pass a resolution that backtracks on one passed by the chamber last week — "which regrets the refusal of the president to address the serious crime of rape in our country and to acknowledge the suffering of women and children who are attacked on a daily basis".
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/ 2 November 2004
Privatisation came under fire on Tuesday afternoon in a debate in the National Assembly on the planned retrenchment of 7 600 workers at South Africa’s semi-privatised fixed-line telephone monopoly Telkom. Leading the debate was Freedom Front Plus leader Pieter Mulder.