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/ 12 February 2007
Premier Soccer League champions Mamelodi Sundowns qualified for the second round of the Confederation of African Football’s Champions League at a canter in beating Royal Leopards 2-0 in a second-leg, first-round game at the Somhlolo Stadium on the outskirts of Mbabane, Swaziland, on Sunday afternoon.
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/ 12 February 2007
The JSE was in positive territory just before midday on Monday, assisted by a weaker rand. The gains came despite weaker world markets. By 11.52am, the all-share index added 0,48%. Resources rallied 1,14%, the platinum-mining index jumped 1,85% and the gold-mining index climbed 0,38%.
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/ 12 February 2007
Envoys from the United Nations and the African Union arrived in Khartoum on Monday in a bid to revive peace talks in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur. Jan Eliasson of the UN and Salim Ahmed Salim of the AU are due to meet officials in Khartoum before heading to Darfur in a bid to win over rebel groups that did not sign a May 2006 peace deal.
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/ 12 February 2007
The Soweto Gospel Choir has been awarded the best traditional world music Grammy for its second album, Blessed. ”We are thrilled at this honour, it’s every musician’s dream and for us the dream has come true,” said the choir’s producer, Beverly Bryer.
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/ 12 February 2007
The Dixie Chicks, who stirred up a hornet’s nest with a jibe at United States President George Bush, won all five Grammys for which they were nominated on Sunday. The victory marked a stunning validation for the female country music trio from Texas, almost four years after their dream run as the darlings of Nashville came to an abrupt end.
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/ 12 February 2007
Tomas Rosicky headed a winner five minutes from the end as Arsenal came from behind to beat Wigan 2-1 on Sunday to keep fourth place in the English Premiership. Denny Landzaat’s goal in the 35th minute had threatened a major upset at Arsenal’s Emirates Stadium.
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/ 12 February 2007
A 22nd-minute goal of some considerable ingenuity gave Orlando Pirates a morale-boosting, if dour, 1-0 Premier Soccer League victory at Loftus on Sunday afternoon — although it was a winner that emerged as the product of a calamitous goalkeeping blunder by SuperSport United goalkeeper Dennis Onyongo.
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/ 12 February 2007
France winger Vincent Clerc scored a try one minute from time to clinch a nerve-rattling 20-17 win over Ireland in a Six Nations clash at Croke Park in Dublin on Sunday. Ireland flyhalf Ronan O’Gara had landed a penalty with two minutes to play but from the resulting kick-off, the ball went loose and fell to French hands.
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/ 12 February 2007
A German tourist appeared in a Manila court Monday charged with "alarm and scandal and acts of lasciviousness" after he dropped his trousers and walked through an X-ray machine at Manila’s international airport. Hans Jurgen Oskar von Naguschewski (66) was so annoyed when asked to walk through the machine for a second time that he dropped his trousers, police said.
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/ 12 February 2007
Soldiers and relief workers using helicopters and canoes have evacuated about 60 000 people from the flooded Zambezi River Valley in central Mozambique, where more than 100 000 others are at risk, officials said on Monday.