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/ 6 February 2006
Team South Africa travel to Jakarta, Indonesia, this weekend for the eighth round of the A1 Grand Prix of Nations in an upbeat mood. Official practice at the Sentul circuit is on Friday, qualifying on Saturday and racing on Sunday. The team are feeling confident and will be aiming for another good result.
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/ 6 February 2006
Host nation South Africa is to refurbish five existing stadiums and build five new venues for the 2010 Soccer World Cup, in terms of an agreement with international football association Fifa. Five new stadiums will be built, including ones in KwaZulu-Natal’s eThekweni metro and in Cape Town.
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/ 6 February 2006
Opener Salman Butt hit a punishing century and Shoaib Malik a quickfire 90 to help Pakistan score a dramatic seven-run win under special bad-light rules against India in Peshawar on Monday. Pakistan, chasing 329 to win, were 311-7 in 47 overs before the light stopped play.
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/ 6 February 2006
The White House on Monday condemned the violent protests against the publication of caricatures of the prophet Muhammad and urged governments to take steps to lower tensions as demonstrations continued around the world over the cartoons published in European newspapers.
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/ 6 February 2006
At least one person was killed and seven others wounded in the Puntland region of Somalia on Monday as security forces clashed with hundreds of Muslims protesting the publication in Europe of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad, witnesses and police said.
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/ 6 February 2006
A hapless visitor who accidentally smashed a set of rare 300-year-old Chinese vases at a British museum after tripping up on his shoelaces said on Monday he has been banned from returning. The 42-year-old tripped as he came down a flight of stairs, causing the £100 000 (about R1,07-million) mishap.
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/ 6 February 2006
A human chain of villagers pulled a hunter from the jaws of a man-eating crocodile in north-eastern Zimbabwe, state media reported on Monday. Letikuku Sidumbu (32) was attacked by the crocodile while trying to cross the swollen Mubvinzi River in Goromonzi district, east of Harare, during an early-morning hunting expedition with his uncle.
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/ 6 February 2006
prominent Hungarian actor, Peter Halasz, was on Monday preparing to attend his own funeral after being diagnosed with incurable liver cancer. ”This is not at all morbid, but a nice and honourable farewell,” said Erik Novak, the event organiser and producer of Halasz’s last film, adding that the ”funeral” would be filmed for use in a biopic of Halasz.
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/ 6 February 2006
Student registration came to a halt on Monday when students’ and workers’ unions protested at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a union official said. The South African Students’ Congress joined forces with the National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union to present a list of demands to the university management.
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/ 6 February 2006
The ministers responsible for the criminal justice sector are discussing who is responsible for the witness-protection programme, Minister of Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula said on Monday. He was reacting to newspaper reports that all 85 operational staff of the witness-protection unit had been ordered to vacate their posts.