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France and Switzerland opened their World Cup campaigns with a goalless draw high on endeavour but short on flair on Tuesday. France, the 1998 champions, were out to erase the nightmare they endured at the last World Cup when they never recovered from a first-match defeat to Senegal.
A high-ranking diplomat from South Africa’s High Commission in Zimbabwe was shot dead outside a house he had recently bought near Midrand, police said on Tuesday. North Rand police spokesperson Superintendent Eugene Opperman said Kingsley Sithole, a counsellor at the office in Harare, was attacked by unidentified people late on Monday night.
Aids-treatment programmes need to expand dramatically in Africa, an expert said on Tuesday, suggesting nurses do some of the work of doctors and more people be trained as counsellors in order to meet the enormous need. ”We need to expand four- or fivefold from where we are now,” said Dr Mark Dybul, the United States State Department’s deputy global Aids coordinator.
Sex between teachers and pupils is inexcusable, the South African Democratic Teachers’ Union (Sadtu) said on Tuesday. There could be no excuse for ”inappropriate behaviour” between teachers on school premises, said Sadtu general secretary Thulas Nxesi. Equally unacceptable are the exploitative and predatory activities of some male teachers towards female pupils.
Eleven people, including two children, were killed in the northern Gaza Strip on Tuesday in the deadliest air strike this year by the Israeli military in the territory. Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas swiftly condemned the strike as ”state terrorism” and called on the international community to intervene.
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Ahn Jung-Hwan scored the winning goal in the 72nd minute on Tuesday to give South Korea a 2-1 win over Togo and their first World Cup victory away from home. Ahn, who also scored the winner against Italy four years ago to send the Koreans into the World Cup semifinals, sent a 25m shot past Togo goalkeeper Kossi Agassa.
East African states on Tuesday imposed travel sanctions and froze the bank accounts of Somali warlords who have been blamed for igniting the latest round of deadly fighting in Mogadishu. A ministerial meeting of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, a regional bloc key to the formation of Somalia’s transitional government, agreed to the sanctions.
Talks about the continuing security guards’ strike were adjourned on Tuesday for the parties to ”clarify and reflect on issues still in dispute”, the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) said. ”Given the fact that discussions continued to approximately 2am, parties agreed to adjourn to clarify and reflect on issues,” CCMA spokesperson Lusanda Myoli said.
Former South African president FW de Klerk is to undergo a tracheotomy, his spokesperson Dave Steward confirmed on Tuesday afternoon. De Klerk originally went to hospital the weekend before last to have a cancerous growth removed from his colon. He has been sedated for about a week.