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/ 19 February 2008
United Nations peacekeepers resupplied their food but were running low on fuel on Tuesday after being forced to withdraw all personnel to the Eritrean capital, unable to get permission to cross into Ethiopia. Eritrean authorities ordered the peacekeeping mission patrolling the border to ”regroup” at Asmara.
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/ 19 February 2008
Outrage mounted on Tuesday over an attack on a young woman at the Noord Street taxi rank in Johannesburg for wearing a miniskirt. Nwabisa Ngcukana (25) was humiliated when taxi drivers and hawkers at the rank tore off her clothes and said she was being taught a lesson for wearing a miniskirt.
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/ 19 February 2008
Nearly a third of New Zealanders are suffering from rugby fatigue, Research New Zealand polling shows. Research NZ director Emanuel Kalafatelis Wednesday said the poll found 29% of New Zealanders reported they would be taking less interest in the Super 14 this season, reports the NZ Herald.
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/ 19 February 2008
Wallabies winger Lote Tuqiri has labelled as ”short-sighted” remarks by Springbok flyer Bryan Habana that the new laws on trial in the Super 14 are making rugby union become more like rugby league. Tuqiri also applauded the way the new game requires players to be better all-round athletes.
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/ 19 February 2008
The Annestacia Wiese murder trial was postponed on Tuesday for the Cape High Court to rule on an application that the Department of Health provide an expert to testify about the accused’s state of mind. Murder accused Richard Engelbrecht has pleaded guilty to the rape and murder of the 11-year-old Wiese.
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/ 19 February 2008
The National Lotteries Board has ordered Vodacom to stop its win-a-BMW competition. ”The board is satisfied that it has done its duty in policing and stopping the illegal lottery,” the board said in a statement on Tuesday. It said Vodacom was instructed on Monday to cease the competition.
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/ 19 February 2008
Seven people were injured on Tuesday when riot-squad officers fired rubber bullets and stun grenades at squatters resisting eviction from a housing project in Delft near Cape Town, South African police said. The violence erupted as several hundred squatters tried to prevent contractors from loading their scant belongings on to removal trucks.
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/ 19 February 2008
Geraldine Pillay, who appeared to be in prime condition, and some of South Africa’s other top athletes were visibly excited and more than happy on Tuesday to share their goals and expectations ahead of the fourth Yellow Pages Series meeting at Germiston on Friday night.
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/ 19 February 2008
A devastating spell of swing-bowling by Pradeep Sangwan was too much for South Africa to handle in what had been billed as the big match of Group B, as India beat South Africa by six wickets in their International Cricket Council Under-19 World Cup match at the Kinrara Stadium in Kuala Lumpur on Tuesday.
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/ 19 February 2008
Kenya’s rival parties were stuck on Tuesday over how to share power despite pleas for quick resolution to a crisis that has killed 1 000 people and wrecked a nation’s reputation. Foreign powers and the majority of Kenya’s 36-million people are impatient for President Mwai Kibaki and opposition leader Raila Odinga to find a political solution.