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/ 28 November 2005
India’s cricket chiefs plan to speak to national coach Greg Chappell over a rude gesture he reportedly made to crowds in Kolkata last week, an official said on Monday. ”We will certainly discuss the matter at the board’s annual general meeting in Kolkata on Tuesday,” said Inderjit Bindra, former head of the Board of Control for Cricket in India.
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/ 28 November 2005
Hundreds of Nigerian troops deployed on Monday to the capital of the country’s biggest oil producing region after militant youths rallied around a state governor accused of embezzling millions of dollars, the military said. ”We have troops deployed in Yenagoa. They went in this morning. Their numbers are in the hundreds,” said Major Said Hamed.
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/ 28 November 2005
Not only does the Honda FR-V make a good first impression, but it reinforces that initial advantage at every opportunity, making the second, third, fourth, and so on, impressions as positive as the first. In a nutshell, the FR-V looks good, handles well, seats six people and shows off why Honda achieves such impressive scores on the JD Power and Associates survey.
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/ 28 November 2005
British mobile operator Vodafone has purchased another 11,5-million shares in South African investment holding group VenFin for R530,15-million, it was disclosed on Monday. This brings the total number of shares the United Kingdom group has purchased in VenFin so far this month to about 25,4-million.
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/ 28 November 2005
One boy has died and eight others were admitted to the Mthatha general hospital after they fell ill at a circumcision school in the area, the Eastern Cape Health Department said on Monday. ”When we got there on Sunday night one of the boys had already died. Two are in a critical condition and the others are stable,” said spokesperson Sizwe Kupelo.
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/ 28 November 2005
Zimbabwe last Friday paid an additional $10-million to the International Monetary Fund as it seeks to move out of the red, with only $25-million now outstanding under the critical General Resources Account, the state-controlled Zimbabwe <i>Herald</i> newspaper reported on Monday.
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/ 28 November 2005
People against elephant culling in the Kruger National Park will demonstrate that there are non-violent and non-lethal alternatives when they meet Environmental Affairs and Tourism Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk on Monday. The Elephants Alive Coalition said it would also argue that the plan to cull elephants in the park was ”deeply flawed, ecologically and ethically”.
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/ 28 November 2005
President Thabo Mbeki has appointed advocate Dumisane Ntsebeza as senior counsel, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Sunday. Ntsebeza is the first African in the entire history of the Cape Bar to be appointed senior counsel, which is the highest recognition in the legal profession.
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/ 28 November 2005
Everything the All Blacks touch seems to turn to gold. That’s the opinion of Wallabies coach Eddie Jones and the embattled handler is not far wrong. Aside from coming from behind to land the right to host the 2011 World Cup, New Zealand finish the year with the British Isles Grand Slam, a 3-0 series win over the British and Irish Lions and the Tri-Nations trophy.
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/ 28 November 2005
Hawk-eye technology will be used to officiate matches in a world first at next month’s Hopman Cup mixed teams tennis tournament, organisers said in Perth on Monday. It will be the world’s first elite level tennis tournament to formally utilise the revolutionary tennis technology, they said.