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/ 10 December 2007
Megawatt Park was without megawatts on Monday when Eskom load-shedded itself. The power company could not even access its own website to check which areas were without electricity — the server was down, said an official who asked not want to be named.
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/ 10 December 2007
Michael Vandort scored an unbeaten 50 as Sri Lanka shook off a poor start to close on 105-2, 246 runs behind England, on the second day of the second Test on Monday. England were earlier bowled out for 351 after resuming on 258-5, with Matt Prior hitting 79 and Muttiah Muralitharan claiming his 62nd five-wicket haul in Tests.
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/ 10 December 2007
Pakistan’s new crisis men Misbah-ul-Haq and Kamran Akmal defied India in an unbroken sixth-wicket stand after Younis Khan’s masterly 80 in the third and final Test on Monday. In-form Misbah struck a controlled 54 and Akmal a gritty 32 as the visitors, searching for a series-levelling victory, ended day three on 369-5.
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/ 10 December 2007
An elderly British tourist found dead after a fire on Table Mountain could have died of a heart attack, the doctor who did the post-mortem examination conceded on Monday at the trial of British national Anthony Cooper, who is alleged to have started the fire in January last year by tossing a burning cigarette butt on to dry grass.
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/ 10 December 2007
Kenya’s main opposition party accused the government on Monday of bribing voters and risking regional insecurity by trying to rig polls due on December 27. ”A rigged electoral process will cause such chaos and political instability in Kenya, not only here but in the entire East Africa region,” presidential challenger Raila Odinga said.
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/ 10 December 2007
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, together with former president of Ireland Mary Robinson and Graça Machel, wife of former South African president Nelson Mandela, on Monday launched a human rights campaign marking the 60th year since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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/ 10 December 2007
A fake government office has been discovered in northern India that collected taxes, provided civic services and even handed out birth and death certificates, a report said on Monday. An office was set up outside Jhansi town in Uttar Pradesh state and 20 people employed to carry out jobs such as street sweeping.
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/ 10 December 2007
Authorities in Kyrgyzstan have launched a contest to track down Father Christmas somewhere inside the mountainous Central Asian state — a week after Swedish experts reported that he must be there. The contest runs until December 20, but the hunt could prove tough because of the former Soviet republic’s imposing mountain ranges.
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/ 10 December 2007
D-Day for the approximately 600 000 people who wrote matric in South Africa will be December 28 when the Department of Education releases this year’s final exam results. The results will be available in newspapers at 6am, said department spokesperson Lunga Ngqengelele.
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/ 10 December 2007
DaimlerChrysler South Africa would from Monday be trading as Mercedes-Benz South Africa, the car manufacturer said. The name change will not affect present contracts and undertakings. ”It is business as usual, with a fresh focus and renewed energy,” said Hansgeorg Niefer, chairperson of Mercedes-Benz South Africa.