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/ 19 February 2007
Jackie Maarohanye, the embattled principal of the Ithuteng Trust school in Kliptown, was taken to hospital after collapsing following her appearance in the Protea Magistrate’s Court in Soweto, media reports said on Monday. She was allegedly part of a group that held a reporter and driver from the Sowetan newspaper hostage at the weekend.
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/ 19 February 2007
The office of Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe, former Spanish President José MarÃa Aznar and the United States Navy Seals all had some connection to the alleged attempted coup in Equatorial Guinea, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Monday.
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/ 19 February 2007
A twin boy and girl burnt to death in a blaze that gutted their home in Sea View, Durban, on Monday afternoon, emergency services said. Netcare 911 spokesperson Chris Botha said the seven-year-old siblings had tried to escape, but could not because of burglar bars. Paramedics declared them dead on scene.
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/ 19 February 2007
An earthquake with a magnitude of 5,7 struck the Lake Albert region of western Uganda and eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Monday, officials said, but there was no immediate word of casualties or damage. ”An earthquake passed here but it did not hurt anyone or destroy any property,” Andrew Diboi, police chief for western Uganda, told Reuters by telephone.
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/ 19 February 2007
Two buses collided head-on, killing 17 people, in South Africa on Monday, after one swerved to avoid a donkey in the road, police said. At least 45 others were injured in what police called the worst road accident this year in the northern Limpopo province. ”The donkey was just passing by. Animals roam around here,” said Limpopo police Superintendent Mohale Ramatseba.
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/ 19 February 2007
Thousands of Liberians on Monday lined the road from airport to the seaside capital, Monrovia, to welcome their leader back from a donors’ conference where she secured a massive debt-relief deal. Villagers and residents of small towns along the 50km road from Roberts International Airport came out to praise President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf for a "job well done".
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/ 19 February 2007
French authorities issued an alert on Monday at the Canadian embassy in Paris when a staff member suffered from a nosebleed after receiving a suspicious envelope, firefighters said. But tests showed there was no danger and employees were allowed to return to their desks less than two hours later, said Florent Hivert, spokesperson for the Paris firefighters.
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/ 19 February 2007
The City of Cape Town needs to spend about R1-billion on treatment plants over the next five years to avoid a sewage crisis, mayoral committee member for trading services Lionel Roelf said on Monday. Most of the city’s waste-water treatment plants are already operating near or beyond capacity, with ageing, ineffective infrastructure, he said in a statement.
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/ 19 February 2007
Somalia’s government has formed an anti-terror unit to quell growing unrest in the capital, Mogadishu, a defence official said on Monday. The paramilitary force was trained by Ethiopian troops who helped the interim government rout an Islamic group that held the capital and most of southern Somalia until late last year.
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/ 19 February 2007
Hunger and desperation are driving pupils to suicide at a school near Mthatha in the Eastern Cape, the media reported on Monday. Upper Corana High School principal Suthukazi Lujabe said that most pupils walk long distances on empty stomachs to get to school. She said one or two pupils had killed themselves because of hunger every year from 2001 to 2006.