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/ 25 January 2007
Brett Kebble murder accused Glenn Agliotti had his case postponed to June 20 in the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Scorpions prosecutor Gerrie Nel told the court: ”It’s a fairly lengthy postponement date but the state is involved in extradition proceedings to ensure other accused appear in this matter.”
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/ 25 January 2007
Nigerian gunmen have abducted two or three Chinese oil workers in the southern delta state of Bayelsa, police said on Thursday. The men were working for the Chinese National Petroleum Company when they were seized by the gunmen, who also looted the company’s office, police said.
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/ 25 January 2007
South Africa’s producer price inflation (PPI) slowed to 9,3% year-on-year in December from November’s 10%, adding weight to the argument that interest rates may not rise much further. On a monthly basis, PPI decelerated by 0,6% compared with a 0,5% expansion in November, Statistics South Africa said on Thursday.
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/ 25 January 2007
With former Brazilian national coach Carlos Alberto Parreira due in the country on Friday to launch what has been hailed a new dawn for Bafana Bafana, everything at the South African Football Association remains in disarray. Parreira is due to launch South Africa’s bid to regain a measure of respect in international soccer with a three-day training camp from February 5 to 7.
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/ 25 January 2007
Maria Sharapova gate crashed Kim Clijsters’s farewell party at the Australian Open on Thursday to set up an historic final showdown with Serena Williams. Comeback queen Williams proved that she still belonged among the elite as she doused the youthful exuberance of Czech 10th seed Nicole Vaidisova 7-6 6-4 with a ruthless exhibition of power-hitting.
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/ 25 January 2007
Herschelle Gibbs’s appeal against the ban imposed by Chris Broad following an incident during the first Test between South Africa and Pakistan at Centurion has been rejected by Richie Benaud, the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) code of conduct commissioner.
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/ 25 January 2007
A Japanese toymaker selling miniature buses has discovered an unexpected fan base — balding men. The toy is a replica of a bus that used to run in the 1980s to Mashike, a northern town known for herring. But the characters for the town’s name can also be read as "Zoumou", which in Japanese means "increasing hair".
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/ 25 January 2007
The failure of efforts to demobilise thousands of fighters in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and train a army would risk destabilising the country, Amnesty International said on Thursday. The group urged the DRC to forge ahead with integrating ex-combatants into the national army.
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/ 25 January 2007
Seventy-one people have died in flash floods following torrential rains across Angola, with almost all the fatalities reported in the seaside capital Luanda, the fire service said on Thursday. Luanda is home to about 4,5-million people and despite Angola’s oil riches has a skeletal infrastructure, which has been further damaged by the downpours.
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/ 25 January 2007
Commonwealth secretary general Don McKinnon on Wednesday voiced disappointment at Zimbabwe’s worsening political crisis and hoped the Southern African nation would eventually rejoin the bloc. ”We are very sad about the situation in Zimbabwe, we hope they will uphold standards of human rights and they will come back and join the Commonwealth,” he said.