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/ 21 January 2007
African governments’ failure to deliver on a 2001 vow to spend 15% of budgets on health has cost the continent 40-million lives, activists including Nobel winners Desmond Tutu and Wangari Maathai said on Sunday. ”The governments are to blame of course, but nothing has been done about it because ordinary people have not demanded it,” Maathai said in a call to action.
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/ 21 January 2007
Saurav Ganguly scored a sparkling 98 on his one-day international return after a 16-month absence to help India to a 14-run victory over West Indies on Sunday. The 34-year-old opener struck 11 fours and three sixes to lead the hosts to a commanding total of 338 for three, enjoying good partnerships with Gautam Gambhir (69) and Sachin Tendulkar (31) after they were put in to bat
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/ 21 January 2007
All-rounder Jacques Kallis compiled a patient innings to nudge South Africa into the lead on the third day of the first Test against Pakistan on Sunday. Kallis was 84 not out at lunch, which South Africa reached on 191 for four in their second innings — a lead of 50 runs.
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/ 21 January 2007
France’s Stephane Peterhansel, driving a Mitsubishi, and compatriot Cyril Despres, riding a KTM, were crowned champions of the 2007 Dakar Rally after the 15th and final stage in Dakar on Sunday. It was Peterhansel’s third Dakar Rally car crown and ninth overall while for Despres this represented a second title after winning the 2005 edition.
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/ 21 January 2007
A leading Roman Catholic rights group in Zimbabwe urged the government on Sunday to address the grievances of striking state doctors, saying their weeks-old action was hurting poor patients. ”The strike by junior doctors has caused untold human suffering and loss of life to many,” the Catholic commission.
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/ 21 January 2007
The Titans duly won their SuperSport match against the Cape Cobras, which was played at Willowmoore Park, by 10 wickets. Cobras who were asked to follow-on, started the day on 131 for one. A second wicket partnership of 68 runs added a touch of respectability, but when Alfonso Thomas claimed the wicket of Henry Davids, the writing was on the wall
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/ 21 January 2007
A 35-year-old Muizenberg woman was wounded in the stomach on Sunday morning when her ex-husband shot her outside a church, Western Cape police said. Inspector Bernadine Steyn said the woman was shot in the parking lot of the church in Marina da Gama just before 10am.
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/ 21 January 2007
The KwaZulu-Natal minister for education, Ina Cronje, expressed concern on Sunday over the closure of at least four farm schools in the province. She said her department met on Saturday with the agriculture department’s provincial minister, Mtholephi Mthimkhulu and the members of Congress of South Africa Trade Unions to discuss the farm schools’ problems.
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/ 21 January 2007
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has expressed his deep disappointment at South Africa’s vote to block a United Nations Security Council resolution demanding an end to human rights abuses in Burma, saying it was a betrayal of his country’s ”noble past”.
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/ 21 January 2007
The police do not fear a renewed treason threat from the harbourers of Boeremag fugitives Herman van Rooyen (33) and Rudi Gouws (28). The pair were recaptured on Saturday after escaping from court last year. ”Although we have made no further arrests, people should not worry as we have the core group of 22 men believed to have been behind the treason plot,” said a a police spokesperson.