A blistering afternoon at the Amahouro stadium in Kigali last October and deep into the second half Angola seem powerless to break the deadlock against Rwanda in the final game of their World Cup qualifying campaign. Angola need to match Nigeria’s victory against Zimbabwe, a 5-1 success that finished slightly earlier, to ensure an improbable berth in the finals for the first time.
Colin Montgomerie was the only player to pass golf’s toughest test in the red colours on Thursday, as his one-under 69 gave him the first-round lead in the 2006 US Open. Montgomerie’s was the only under-par effort on a day when a wind-blown Winged Foot humbled a host of top players, including Tiger Woods.
In the early summer of 2006 the Spanish government confirmed that it was considering regarding the great apes as ”legal persons”, thereby bestowing on them all the rights known at that time as human.
A recently released report by Amnesty International says Norinco 9mm pistols, which are cheaply manufactured in China, are commonly used in cases of robbery, rape and other crimes in South Africa. The report notes that, despite South Africa’s stringent Firearms Control Act of 2000, firearms are filtering into the underworld after being lost or stolen.
Ousted former African National Congress mayors and councillors in the North West have been accused of infiltrating the South African National Civic Organisation as a way of getting back at the ANC. But the allegations, made in a Sanco document sent to the ANC for response, also indicate deep divisions within the civic organisation.
Fresh conflict is boiling between the council and management of South Africa’s communications regu-lator, as the regulator pushes ahead with disciplinary action against its suspended CEO. Icasa suspended Manche on November 24 last year after the disappearance of cash from an Icasa safe and a dispute over vehicle purchases.
At least 19 people were killed across Iraq on Friday, including 11 in Baghdad when a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a massive Shi’ite mosque despite a security crackdown in the capital, police said. The blast, which also wounded 25 people, came just an hour before the main weekly Muslim prayers.
Sri Lanka’s president vowed on Friday not to allow the killing of 64 bus passengers derail the island’s peace process as the air force bombarded Tamil Tiger positions for a second straight day. President Mahinda Rajapakse insited the Norwegian-brokered process would not be allowed to collapse following Thursday’s Claymore mine attack on the bus.
Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula came to rare prominence two weeks ago when he controversially suggested persistent whingers about crime should leave the country. <i>Mail & Guardian</i> reporter Fikile Ntsikelelo Moya quizzed the largely invisible minister on his statement, and on crime and policing more generally.
The worst thing about having old friends is that they go and die on you. When they do, strands of a web of common experience die with them. You also lose what might be called the shorthand of your friendship; how you could talk to each other without ever having to explain why, what or wherefore.