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/ 21 November 2007
Wales have never been an easy side to beat at home — not for the Springboks, anyway. In fact, after 13 matches, the Boks’ biggest winning margin against the Dragons in Wales is 17 points. This weekend won’t be any different when the two sides meet at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff, promises acting head coach Nigel Davies.
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/ 21 November 2007
Colombia upset the leader of the South American qualifying round for the 2010 World Cup with a 2-1 victory on Tuesday in Bogota over Argentina. Argentina still tops the table to advance to the World Cup in South Africa with nine points from four games, but Colombia is now second on eight points.
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/ 21 November 2007
Teko Modise netted twice to give Bafana Bafana a 2-0 win in an international friendly against Canada at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Tuesday. The Orlando Pirates playmaker netted a splendid goal from 20m in the 39th minute and got his second on the stroke of halftime with a well-taken penalty.
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/ 21 November 2007
African states should harmonise their aviation regulations to attract financing needed by the continent’s carriers to compete in the global market, Nigeria’s minister for air transport said Tuesday. Experts say Africa has the world’s highest rate of air accidents, while accounting for just 4,5% of global air traffic.
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/ 21 November 2007
Condoleezza Rice taught crisis management at Stanford University but experts say the top United States diplomat will need more than academic prowess to mediate an end to six decades of Israeli-Palestinian conflict. ”The question is, will she have that diplomatic skill to pull it off?” asked Daniel Levy, a former Israeli mediator.
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/ 21 November 2007
It has been more than 31 hours since a petrol tank was struck by lightning at Durban’s Engen Refinery and by 7am on Wednesday the tank was still burning. plant officials said. ”The fire seems to be very persistent,” said Engen spokesperson Herb Payne.
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/ 21 November 2007
Zimbabweans endured hours in long queues at banks on Tuesday as a cash shortage forced limits on withdrawals, with the country in the midst of an economic crisis. ”Things have gotten worse since the weekend,” said an official at a bank in central Harare where a queue of customers snaked outside the building.
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/ 21 November 2007
German authorities closed a secondary school in the west of the country on Tuesday after being warned of a plan to carry out a massacre, in the latest of a string of violent plots believed to have been hatched by students in internet chat rooms.
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/ 21 November 2007
More than three-quarters of Aids-related deaths occur in sub-Saharan Africa — and South Africa is now officially the country with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. The South African government currently estimates about 5,5-million of the country’s 48-million people are living with the disease.
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/ 21 November 2007
In the run-up to the World Cup preliminary draw in Durban on Sunday, fresh questions are being raised over South Africa’s preparedness to host the world’s second-largest sporting event in 932 days. Once again the spotlight is on the 10 World Cup stadiums after strikes by thousands of workers.