No image available
/ 21 February 2006
Wallaby winger Wendell Sailor returned home in disgrace from the NSW Waratahs’ rugby tour of South Africa on Wednesday saying the nightclub incident that led to his early departure was a low point in his career. Sailor has already incurred a one-match ban and a fine from team authorities after he reportedly pushed a man to the ground outside a Cape Town nightclub.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
A university in Poland has banned an exhibition of T-shirts bearing slogans such as "I didn’t cry when the Pope died" and "I’ve got Aids," saying the show was too provocative, press reports said on Tuesday. "The texts printed on the T-shirts could have offended the feelings and beliefs of many people," said Wieslaw Kaminski, president of UMCS University.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
The death toll from a suspected cholera outbreak in southern Sudan has risen to 68 but the fatality rate of the epidemic is on the decline, the United Nations’s health agency said on Tuesday. The outbreak has hit two major southern Sudanese towns, the administrative capital Juba and Yei near the border with Uganda.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Southern Africa on Tuesday announced that it spent nearly R600-million ($100-million) in 2005 — double the amount in 2004 — buying more than half a million tonnes of food in the region to support vulnerable people across Africa.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
Muslims throughout Mozambique are meeting this week to discuss how to respond to the publishing by local newspaper Savana of the controversial cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad, which has stirred violent protest around the world. The independent weekly on Friday reprinted eight of the 12 cartoons.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
A group of powerful warlords controlling the Somali capital has formed a new political party, the Alliance for the Restoration of Peace and Counter-Terrorism, whose main goal is to oppose extremism associated with hard-line Islamic courts in the lawless Horn of Africa nation, officials with ties to the party said on Tuesday.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
The trappings of fame don’t mean a thing for South Africa’s golden girl.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
Three people were killed in an underground explosion at the Northam Platinum mine in Thabazimbi, Limpopo, on Monday, the mining company said. Spokesperson Marion Brower said in a statement released on Tuesday that the accident happened at 2pm at a depth of about 1,6km underground.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
The KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins, who led the Supersport four-day cricket standings after the first round in October, are now eager to resume their chase for some silverware on Thursday at Kingsmead after losing out in the Standard Bank and Pro20 tournaments. They take on the Cape Cobras.
No image available
/ 21 February 2006
The two expats of the Cheetahs, All Black centre Keith Lowen and Samoan hooker Trevor Leota, look set to play for the Free State Cheetahs in their Vodacom Cup match on Friday in Brakpan against log leaders the Falcons. Lowen and Leota practised with the Cheetahs on Monday afternoon.