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/ 2 November 2004
A British acupuncturist in Tokyo has promised to treat everyone who walks into his clinic for free the day after Tuesday’s United States election, if George Bush loses — even the would-be ex-president himself. Edward Obaidey, who treats about 20 people a day, said he stands to lose about 120 000 yen if Senator John Kerry wins.
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/ 2 November 2004
Another day of unrest and violent clashes resulting in deaths and injuries were reported on Tuesday by local residents in China’s south-western province of Sichuan after more than 20 000 farmers protested against a dam project. Officials are putting ”the money into their own bag” said a farmer.
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/ 2 November 2004
French environmentalists reacted with fury on Tuesday after hunters shot dead one of the last remaining bears in the Pyrenees mountains separating France and Spain. The 15-year-old female was killed on Monday in the Aspe valley when she and her cub were surprised by a group of hunters taking part in a wild-boar shoot.
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/ 2 November 2004
Chad’s security forces have arrested 15 people and recovered assault rifles, knives and machetes they suspect were used in fighting in which 12 people were killed and 15 others wounded. A dispute between a local resident and a trader from a neighbouring community sparked off widespread fighting on Saturday.
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/ 2 November 2004
Foreigners are regularly detained at the Lindela Detention Centre outside Krugersdorp for longer than the permitted 30 days, the South African Human Rights Commission hearings on xenophobia heard on Tuesday. The hearing’s findings will guide what action Parliament will take on the problem of xenophobia.
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/ 2 November 2004
White-collar crime is currently costing the South African economy upward of R40-billion a year, Stallion Security and its division Stallion Investigations said in a statement on Tuesday. A recent KPMG fraud survey detected a massive 13% leap in employee fraud reported since the last survey in 1999.
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/ 2 November 2004
The former police officer who broke down at the Vito Palazzolo inquiry on Monday has been admitted to a clinic, the Cape Town Magistrate’s Court heard on Tuesday. Abraham Smith was to have testified at the inquiry, in which questions from Italian prosecutors are being put to a series of South African witnesses.
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/ 2 November 2004
Gauteng’s 153 roadworthy centres will be audited over the next two years amid fears of widespread fraud and corruption, provincial ministers said on Tuesday.
The move follows Talk Radio 702’s exposure earlier this year of fraud and corruption at the privately owned Wynberg testing station.
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/ 2 November 2004
Black empowerment projects in agriculture could be jeopardised if the government does not ensure farmers’ safety, said AgriSA in Pretoria on Tuesday. AgriSA president Lourie Bosman said in a statement it is cause for concern that an increasing number of incidents are reported where the attackers wore police uniforms.