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/ 29 October 2004
South Africa will give consideration to reviewing its policy on the ownership by foreign interests of South Africa’s banks, says Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel. In Parliament, he said the current policy "is informed by the view that four major banks is the minimum number necessary to ensure a certain level of competition in the market".
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/ 29 October 2004
A British former MP left bankrupt and publicly disgraced just three years ago has recouped much of his riches by exploiting his notoriety in the world of show business, a report said on Friday. Neil Hamilton, who was left with debts of £3-million in mid-2001, has now bought a million-pound manor house.
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/ 29 October 2004
A bomb attack in Athens on two buses carrying riot police caused no injuries early on Friday, but sparked fears of a reinvigorated leftist radical scene after a pre-Olympics crackdown. The remote-controlled bomb was placed at the railings by the side of a road and went off just after 7am local time when the buses drove by.
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/ 29 October 2004
Gunshots were heard until early on Friday as angry youths carrying stones and sticks roamed the streets of the Liberian capital, Monrovia, two days before the scheduled end of a United Nations campaign to disarm fighters from the West African state’s civil war. A riot spread throughout the night across the city.
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/ 29 October 2004
The evening news contains footage of bombs exploding in Baghdad and the ensuing carnage, as well as gruesome details from crime cases such as the murder of Leigh Matthews. SABC2 on Friday launches a news programme with the big news explained for kids.
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/ 29 October 2004
Justin Cartwright’s entertaining <i>The Promise of Happiness</i> debunks the myth of the formula: getting married and having children who survive to adulthood ensures happiness, writes Fumane Diseko.
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/ 29 October 2004
Ranging from the funny and far-fetched to the downright ridiculous, Alexander McCall Smith’s collection of stories are of ordinary people in outlandish situations, told with irony and wit, writes Sarah Kiguwa.
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/ 29 October 2004
Two critically endangered South China tiger cubs born in captivity and named Madonna and Tiger Woods were flown to South Africa on Friday so they can learn how to survive in the wild. With fewer than 30 of the tigers left at large and 60 in zoos, international experts predict the species could disappear by 2010.
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/ 29 October 2004
A ship transporting 61 200 tonnes of wheat arrived at the Eritrean port of Massawa on the Red Sea on Friday to help about 600 000 people affected by drought, the United Nations World Food Programme said in a statement. The wheat will assist two-thirds of Eritrea’s population unable to meet daily food needs.
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/ 29 October 2004
Chey are charting now with the funky summer anthem Lola’s Theme, and you can see London house duo the Shapeshifters live at the Tang Sour Apple/5fm Ibiza Street Party on Saturday October 30. The party takes place at Johannesburg’s ever-more-popular Carfax in Newtown. DJ and producer Ton TB is the other visitor from abroad. Also […]