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/ 28 January 2007
Centuries by Ricky Ponting and Matthew Hayden helped Australia maintain their winning streak with an unexpectedly narrow eight-run victory over a plucky New Zealand in their triangular series one-day international in Perth on Sunday. Ponting won the toss and elected to bat in extremely hot conditions. His decision was vindicated as Australia capitalised on New Zealand fielding errors.
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/ 28 January 2007
AfriForum has offered the government a panel of 13 Afrikaner historians and academics to help deal with the issue of name changes, and threatened legal action if the offer is refused. The civil rights initiative, established by the trade union Solidarity, said on Sunday that it had asked Arts and Culture Minister Pallo Jordan to consult with the panel.
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/ 28 January 2007
Gauteng provincial minister of safety Firoz Cachalia must provide figures of each major crime category when he releases feedback on his six-month initiative to bring crime under control in the province, the Democratic Alliance (DA) said on Sunday. Cachalia launched ”Operation Iron Fist” in July 2006, pledging to resign if it can be found that he has failed to control crime levels.
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/ 28 January 2007
Defending champion Roger Federer swept to his 10th Grand Slam title with a commanding straight sets victory over Chile’s Fernando Gonzalez in the final of the Australian Open on Sunday. The peerless Swiss world number one fought off two set points in the opening set and went on to secure his third Australian title with a 7-6 (7/2), 6-4, 6-4 win over the Chilean 10th seed.
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/ 28 January 2007
Knife-wielding muggers have again struck above Cape Town’s world-famous botanical gardens, the media reported on Sunday. Seven hikers in two separate groups became the latest victims near Kirstenbosch on Saturday, bringing to 14 the number of people mugged in the area in the past nine days.
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/ 28 January 2007
The uproar at the murder of KwaZulu-Natal battlefields historian David Rattray continued into Sunday, with leading businessmen expressing their deep concern at crime in South Africa. The legendary Rattray was attacked and killed at his lodge at Rorke’s Drift on Friday evening. He was instrumental in putting the province’s battlefields on the international tourism map.
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/ 28 January 2007
At least 24 Iraqis were killed in ambushes, car bombs and fire fights on Sunday as Shi’ite Muslims headed to the shrine city of Karbala for Ashura, one of their most sacred ceremonies. A car bomb ripped through Baghdad’s Sadr City, the impoverished Shi’ite bastion of radical cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, killing eight people and wounding 18, a security source said.
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/ 28 January 2007
Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s Kadima party will name senior statesman and Nobel peace laureate Shimon Peres as the party’s candidate for president, a senior government source said on Sunday. ”Kadima ministers have agreed to name Shimon Peres as the party’s candidate for the presidential election,” the source told the media.
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/ 28 January 2007
Pakistan ordered a federal probe and beefed up security on Sunday after a suspected suicide bomb killed 14 people, including two top police officers — the second such attack in two days. As investigators hunted for clues about the bombing in Peshawar, thousands of mourners attended the funeral prayers of its slain police chief and deputy superintendent.
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/ 28 January 2007
Xenophobia is on the rise in South Africa where foreigners are increasingly being blamed for spiralling crime and growing unemployment, thereby damaging the country’s credentials overseas. Africa’s largest economy started welcoming foreigners of all hues after the demise of apartheid in 1994 but the public mood is turning hostile.