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/ 19 February 2008
South Africans will be able to see a total eclipse of the moon just before sunrise on Thursday. ”South Africans out [very] early on Thursday morning are in for a treat — an eclipsed Moon with Saturn over in the west, and a line of three planets over in the east above the rising sun,” said Claire Flanagan, Planetarium director.
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/ 19 February 2008
The class of Kumar Sangakkara once again revived Sri Lanka after a dismal start with the bat in their crucial tri-series clash with India in Adelaide on Tuesday. The Sri Lankan cause wasn’t helped by three runs outs, two dreadfully unlucky, but Sangakkara’s polished 128 helped them recover from a disastrous six for two to make 238 for six.
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/ 19 February 2008
Top-ranked tennis stars Roger Federer and Justine Henin received the Laureus Awards on Monday as the world’s top sportsman and woman for 2007. Federer won an unprecedented fourth Laureus, all in succession, while Henin was voted top for the first time. South Africa won the world team of the year award after going unbeaten to win the Rugby World Cup.
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/ 19 February 2008
A cholera outbreak in Mashonaland East and Central provinces that claimed at least 11 lives is now under control. The Minister of Health and Child Welfare Dr David Parirenyatwa said the epidemic taskforce committee was on the lookout for any suspected cholera cases in Nyamukuyo Village in Mudzi.
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/ 19 February 2008
With billions of dollars in illegal bets exchanged every year and allegations of match-fixing rife, the world’s most popular sport is waging a battle to protect its integrity. Early Warning System has the task of trying to keep Asian crime syndicates and other gambling mafias around the world from fixing matches.
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/ 19 February 2008
A Johannesburg restaurant manager has been charged with indecent assault after allegedly having sex with a street child at the weekend, a media report said on Tuesday. The man, who may not be named, apparently offered to pay the 16-year-old boy to have sex with him.
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/ 19 February 2008
Absa increased full-year headline earnings per share by about 19% and played down the potential impact of a slowdown in the domestic economy. Absa said on Tuesday that headline EPS rose to R14,01 in 2007 from R11,81 while headline earnings increased to R9,413-billion from R7,872-billion.
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/ 19 February 2008
United States President George Bush on Tuesday recognised the independence of Kosovo from Serbia and said it would bring peace to the Balkans. Bush said during an African tour in Dar es Salaam that the United States would soon establish full diplomatic relations with the majority Albanian country.
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/ 19 February 2008
At least 11 people are thought to have died after Madagascar was hit by Cyclone Ivan, a senior humanitarian official said on Monday, and the storm is also threatening Mozambique. Ivan, one of the largest cyclones ever to hit Madagascar, was packing winds of more than 200km/h when it hit the Indian Ocean island’s east coast.
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/ 19 February 2008
Microsoft unveiled a new initiative on Monday that will give college and high school students around the world free access to technology tools used to develop and design software. The development and design tools are available immediately to college students in the United States, Western Europe and China.