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/ 11 December 2007

Sri Lanka fighting kills 32 rebels

At least 32 Tamil Tiger rebels and five soldiers were killed in Sri Lanka’s north on Tuesday, the military said. ”Sporadic clashes between the Army and the LTTE [the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam] broke out south-west of Adampan in Mannar,” said a spokesperson at the media centre for national security.

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/ 11 December 2007

ANC warns against ‘divisive’ behaviour

The African National Congress (ANC) on Tuesday laid down some house rules aimed at preventing factionalism ahead of its national conference, at which its new leadership structure is to be elected. The warning comes after heated debate over whether President Thabo Mbeki should continue for another term, or whether party deputy Jacob Zuma should succeed him.

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/ 11 December 2007

George Bush gets pipped to Foot in Mouth award

Former England soccer manager Steve McClaren fought off tough competition from United States President George Bush to win a dreaded Foot in Mouth award on Tuesday from the Plain English campaign. He was hailed for a supreme example of gobbledegook in talking about star player Wayne Rooney: ”He is inexperienced but he’s experienced in terms of what he’s been through.”

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/ 11 December 2007

Eleven robbers killed as cops foil heist

A crack police team killed 11 would-be robbers and wounded one when it thwarted a cash-in-transit heist on the R101 near the Carousel casino in Limpopo on Tuesday. National police spokesperson Director Phuti Setati said members of the task force had received a tip-off that the men were going to rob a Coin security van at about 11.40am.

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/ 11 December 2007

DA: Govt’s Land Bank claims suspicious

The assertion by the Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs that all is well at the Land Bank and there has been significant progress in the past three months ”does not fly”, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Tuesday. It is common knowledge that ”the situation at the Land Bank has been all but rosy,” DA spokesperson Kraai van Niekerk said.

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/ 11 December 2007

Cosatu backs Vavi over ‘sexist’ remarks

”Sexist” remarks made by Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi about women’s equity were misunderstood, the trade-union federation said on Tuesday. ”It was for some reason interpreted as an attack on women and this we totally reject,” said Cosatu spokesperson Patrick Craven.

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/ 11 December 2007

Germany protests as Zim calls Merkel a ‘fascist’

The German Foreign Ministry on Tuesday summoned Zimbabwe’s chief diplomat in Berlin to protest comments from the country’s information minister, who was reported as calling Chancellor Angela Merkel a ”fascist”. Merkel told a summit on the weekend that the government of Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe was ”damaging the image of Africa”.