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/ 16 October 2004
Dearborn, a suburb of Detroit, is the hub of Arab America. Where electoral politics are concerned, it is extremely important. The latest tracking poll shows the Democrats leading by four percentage points in the swing state of Michigan; Arab-Americans comprise 5% of the state’s vote. By luck rather than design Arab-Americans are a sizeable force in many swing states, including Ohio, Pennsylvania and Florida.
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/ 16 October 2004
Libyan President Muammar Gadaffi on Friday embarrassed his latest high-profile western visitor, the German chancellor Gerhard Schröder, by demanding compensation for thousands of landmines left in the Libyan desert during the second world war.
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/ 16 October 2004
While the Zimbabwean government says it accepts and respects the court’s acquittal decision of leader of Zimbabwe’s main opposition party, Morgan Tsvangirai, it says the the verdict is wrong and it may take further legal action. Tsvangirai said the verdict could pave the way for a national reconciliation.
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/ 16 October 2004
Travel executive Soraya Beukes, one of the suspects in the parliamentary travel voucher scam, was taken back into custody on Friday after her R100 000 bail was revoked for giving false information in court. Beukes was the owner of the recently liquidated agency Business and Executive Travel.
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/ 16 October 2004
Schabir Shaik’s Nkobi group paid almost a quarter of a million rand to woo Zulu King Goodwill Zwelethini from the Inkatha Freedom Party to the African National Congress, according to a document handed to the Durban High Court. The document is the transcript of an interview Scorpions investigators conducted with Shaik’s former business associate, Professor Themba Sono.
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/ 16 October 2004
The Israeli army last night began withdrawing from Palestinian areas of the northern Gaza strip, winding down the largest assault on the territory in recent years and leaving more than 100 Palestinians dead and widespread destruction of homes. At least 20 of those killed in the 16-day Israeli operation were under 16.
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/ 16 October 2004
Some say that men’s tennis has lost its glamour — which may explain why a world tournament in Madrid is hiring long-legged models as ball girls. The ”ball models” were picked in a casting session by organisers who say that, by resorting to the gimmickry of boxing promoters, they are merely recognising that tennis is showbusiness.
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/ 16 October 2004
Ray Jennings was on Friday appointed coach of the national cricket team until the end of the tour to the West Indies in May next year. Jennings was named to the post after coach Eric Simons’ contract was terminated with immediate effect by the United Cricket Board of South Africa.
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/ 15 October 2004
The judge in the Boeremag treason trial on Friday made an interim order that the media may not publish the name and image of the next state witness, who is expected to start testifying on Monday. Argument on whether the court should grant an order to protect the identity of the witness, now only known as the elusive Mr C, will continue on Monday.
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/ 15 October 2004
Eritrea said on Friday that it has suspended sales of petrol due to soaring oil prices on the world market. The sale of petrol has been suspended since Wednesday afternoon ”in the wake of ever-increasing oil prices on the world market,” in a bid to curb consumption in the Horn of Africa country, which imports all its refined fuel products, said Eritrean Information Minister Ali Abdu Ahmed in Asmara.