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/ 26 October 2004
Sitting on a stool in one of Berlin’s most expensive Italian restaurants, Peter Liddell recalled the moment when he had been asked whether he would like an all-expenses paid trip to Germany. Liddell, a comprehensive schoolteacher in Burgess Hill, west Sussex, gave the offer a brief thought.
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/ 26 October 2004
Fraud and corruption accused Schabir Shaik threatened to withdraw his Nkobi group from Thomson-CSF operations in 1996, the Durban High Court heard on Monday. The court also heard about a tailor who appeared to act as a go-between for parties interested in acquiring a stake in the government’s multibillion-rand arms deal.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?cg=BreakingNews-National&ao=124349">Shaik thought connections would help</a>
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/ 26 October 2004
Close to one of Cape Town’s most popular beaches lies a wetland area that some claim is even more important than South Africa’s better-known wetlands — such as St Lucia, Langebaan and De Hoop Vlei — because it supports a higher number of endangered bird and plant species. But balancing Cape Town’s urban needs with the fragile biodiversity in the proposed False Bay Ecology Park is becoming increasingly tricky.
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/ 26 October 2004
The chemical industry has consistently maintained that regulatory best practice comprises unambiguous requirements set out in legislation, supported by compliance assessment and sanctions for non-compliance. In our ongoing series on proposed changes to environmental impact assessment regulations, Laurraine Lotter gives the chemical industry’s view.
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/ 26 October 2004
August brought a breakthrough for conservation in Africa when the governments of Malawi and Zambia concluded an agreement for the creation of new transfrontier conservation areas that will eventually cover 33 000km2.
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/ 26 October 2004
The national broadsheet <i>ThisDay</i> did not appear on Tuesday morning. <i>ThisDay</i> editor Justice Malala called the newspaper’s staff together after 6pm on Monday and told them that the publication would not be on the streets on Tuesday. Staff members were to meet later on Tuesday to be informed about their future.
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/ 26 October 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange bounced into the black at the opening on Tuesday, buoyed by a softer rand and a rebound on world markets. Early volumes were light as the market awaited Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s Medium Term Budget Policy Statement.
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/ 26 October 2004
Voters in Botswana go to the polls this week to elect a new parliament and local government. The diamond-rich nation will become the first to test a new electoral code of conduct adopted by the Southern African Development Community in August. In many respects, however, this will simply be a dress rehearsal for the tougher challenges that the code is certain to face in the months ahead.
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/ 26 October 2004
The old man’s rough brown hands clutch a pile of purple animal entrails that steam in the morning chill. As he staggers away, one of the young Somali slaughterers waves a dagger, and explains: "It’s all he can afford. We are all poor here. But he is the poorest. The old one has no money for good food." The election of an interim president is cause for optimism, but Somalia’s dispossessed have nothing to return to.
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/ 26 October 2004
The wealth gap between white households and Hispanic and African-American families in the United States has widened significantly, with the last recession inflicting a heavy toll on minority households. An analysis of US census data by the Pew Hispanic Centre revealed that the 2001 economic downturn deepened a legacy of economic discrimination, with Hispanics and African-Americans harder hit and taking longer to recover.