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/ 24 February 2006
Three people have been arrested in connection with one of Britain’s biggest robberies, police said on Friday, after they recovered three of the getaway vehicles. A group of thieves made off with up to £50-million from a cash depot in the small market town of Tonbridge, south-east of London.
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/ 24 February 2006
Interested parties welcomed the election of Oregan Hoskins as the new president of the South African Rugby Union. Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile congratulated Hoskins on his victory and said he hopes the problems within Saru will now be sorted out.
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/ 24 February 2006
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni holds a solid lead over opposition challenger Kizza Besigye in the country’s landmark elections, the first official results showed on Friday. Meanwhile, deadly raids by Ugandan Lord’s Resistance Army rebels have forced scores of villagers in southern Sudan to flee their homes.
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/ 24 February 2006
SA Rugby turned a R12,8-million loss incurred by the end of 2004 into a R6,4-million net profit in the past financial year. The figures were contained in the company’s audited annual financial statements, adopted at Friday’s annual general council meeting at the Newlands rugby stadium.
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/ 24 February 2006
Four people died in the powerful earthquake on Thursday that forced thousands of panicked residents from their homes, Mozambique’s government and state radio reported on Friday. The United States Geological Survey said the quake struck on Thursday at 12.19am local time with a magnitude of 7,5.
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/ 24 February 2006
The petrol price is to decrease by 11 cents per litre next Wednesday, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The new retail price of petrol of R5,52 per litre inland means the retail petrol price will have declined by 8,5% since it peaked at a record R6,03 cents per litre in October 2005.
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/ 24 February 2006
The Wellington Hurricanes ran in four tries to one in a 29-16 win over gritty South African side the Cats in their Super 14 rugby clash in Wellington on Friday. The Cats defence disrupted the free-flowing Hurricanes backline in a match peppered with errors. Two touchdowns ensured a flattering scoreline for the home side.
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/ 24 February 2006
England will not be asking for immediate reinforcements ahead of next week’s Test series against India despite the 16-man touring squad being wrecked with injuries and illness. Captain Michael Vaughan was given a cortisone injection to speed up the recovery of a recurring knee injury in time for the first of three back-to-back Tests starting in Nagpur on March 1.
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/ 24 February 2006
Three hundred South African soldiers are returning from Burundi this week, after completing their protection mission in that country, the defence ministry said on Friday. The Burundi peace mission was subsequently taken over by the African Union, whose mandate for the protection force expired this month.
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/ 24 February 2006
The African National Congress has cautioned against ”alarmist responses” to the electricity outages that have affected especially the Western Cape over the past couple of days. In a statement on Friday, the ruling party criticised ”some parties” that ”seek to gain political mileage from these technical problems”.