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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
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
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
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.
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/ 19 February 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday congratulated the Springboks for winning the Laureus World Team of the Year award. ”With this prestigious award, they have once more shown that South Africa is a force to be reckoned with, and that we can take on the best of what the sporting world has to offer and come out on top,” the ANC said.
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/ 19 February 2008
The application of fuel-cell systems is an exciting emerging trend that may offer future solutions to the world’s energy problems, a conference heard on Tuesday. This is according to Vladimir Linkov of the University of the Western Cape, who addressed the South African Institute of Electrical Engineers’ power-generation conference.
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/ 19 February 2008
The Egyptian government has summoned the ambassador of Denmark in Cairo to protest the reprinting of cartoons lampooning the Prophet Muhammad in Danish newspapers, the Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. The Information Ministry also said it has banned issues of four Western newspapers.
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/ 19 February 2008
After seeing graphic reminders of the Rwandan genocide, United States President George Bush on Tuesday called for increased international efforts to help Darfur. Bush visited a memorial to the 1994 genocide, in which 800 000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were murdered by Hutu extremists.
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/ 19 February 2008
Billionaire philanthropist George Soros made his fortune on the markets and is giving a lot of it to Africa. Last week he hosted an Africa Forum in Dakar on whether the continent is moving closer to his open society ideal. Ferial Haffajee asked him about the global economy, African governance and the role of China in Africa.
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/ 19 February 2008
Media reports of a row over an ”inferior” contract the South African Rugby Union purportedly offered new Springbok coach Peter de Villiers were unfounded, his agent said on Tuesday. Rian Oberholzer said his client’s contract is still being negotiated. ”There is no sensational new development,” he said.