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/ 16 September 2004
Congress of South African Trade Unions secretary general Zwelinzima Vavi has called on public servants to stay home on Monday and Tuesday next week. As Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi arrived to address a massive protesting crowd in Pretoria, Vavi told the public servants the department was robbing them.
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/ 16 September 2004
With the election of a Speaker of its newly formed Parliament late on Wednesday, Somalia edged closer to its first national government in 13 years. In a delayed and drawn-out session, the parliamentarians elected businessman Shariff Hassan Sheikh Adan as the new Speaker.
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/ 16 September 2004
Hundreds of guests and delegates gathered for the opening of the Pan African Parliament’s (PAP) second sitting at the Gallagher Estate conference centre in Midrand on Thursday morning. Delegates from 46 countries that have ratified the PAP protocol are to take part in deliberations from this Friday until October 7.
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/ 16 September 2004
This may not come as a surprise to millions of working mothers. And their partners probably know it too. But a comprehensive study of 21 000 people suggests that the rise of ”new men” has been greatly exaggerated. According to the survey, the average American working woman spends twice as much time each day on housework and childcare as the average working male.
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/ 16 September 2004
In a mea culpa as welcome as it was unexpected, the owners of France’s 60 000 bars, brasseries and cafes admitted on Wednesday that all too often their staff are surly, service slow and hygiene horrendous. ”Customers are right to complain of a poor or non-existent welcome, an excessively long wait and a lack of basic courtesy and reactivity,” said André Dugoin, president of the French hotel and catering in dustry’s main trade association, UMIH.
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/ 16 September 2004
Long hours spent in the office and the lure of easy contact over the internet are acting as a spur to divorce, marriage counsellors in Britain believe. The national divorce rate is up — again — and this time it’s not the permissive society that’s to blame, but rather the ease with which old flames, possibly from as far back as school days, can be contacted through a variety of websites.
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/ 16 September 2004
The JSE Securities Exchange (JSE) was firm at midday on Thursday ahead of the futures close-out at 2pm. Many players were away for the Rosh Hashanah religious holiday, but volumes — at just less than R1-billion so far — were described as "decent" ahead of the close-out.
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/ 16 September 2004
SABMiller, the world’s second-largest brewer by volume, has declined to comment on Thursday on media reports that the group is in talks regarding a possible joint acquisition of Canada’s Molson. SABMiller spokesperson Nigel Fairbrass said the group couldn’t comment on Thursday’s report in the <i>Wall Street Journal Europe</i>,
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/ 16 September 2004
More than 130 years after Alfred Packer ate his five companions to survive a Colorado winter, a museum curator is making a case that the notorious cannibal was innocent of murder. Packer was convicted of murdering the five men — all prospectors he was guiding — but always insisted he had killed only one of them.
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/ 16 September 2004
Gunmen abducted two Americans and a Briton on Thursday in a brazen attack on a house in an upmarket Baghdad neighbourhood where many embassies and foreign companies are based, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. It was the latest in a wave of kidnappings of foreigners in Iraq.
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