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/ 16 November 2006
As the United Nations continues to battle waste, mismanagement and corruption, an outgoing senior official has proposed that all high-level UN staffers should not only disclose their private financial assets but also make them public. Outgoing Secretary General Kofi Annan Annan signed his financial disclosure forms last month.
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/ 16 November 2006
South Africa coach Jake White has promised England flyhalf Charlie Hodgson a second torrid match at Twickenham in as many weeks as the Springboks bid to send the world champions crashing to a record eighth straight loss. Hodgson was taken off early in the second half of England’s inept 25-18 defeat by Argentina last weekend.
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/ 16 November 2006
Bafana Bafana captain Aaron Mokoena believes his country can make a big impact on and off the pitch when they host the 2010 World Cup. Although South Africa were beaten 1-0 by Egypt in the Nelson Mandela Challenge Cup in London on Wednesday, Mokoena was encouraged by his side’s determined display.
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/ 16 November 2006
Cyprus held three-time champions Germany to a 1-1 draw on Wednesday in European Championship qualifying, and Eduardo da Silva scored a hat-trick to give Croatia a 4-3 win over Israel. Michael Ballack gave Germany the lead in the 16th minute at Cyprus, and it appeared that the Germans were on their way to a fourth victory in a row in Group D.
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/ 16 November 2006
Inzamam ul-Haq on Thursday urged the International Cricket Council to play six-day Tests during the winter in Pakistan to reduce the impact of bad light and poor weather. ”We lost 15 overs a day because of poor natural light,” said the Pakistani captain of the first Test against the West Indies in Lahore, which his side nevertheless won by nine wickets inside four days, finishing on Tuesday.
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/ 16 November 2006
Several players will be hoping to impress the selectors when the Rest of South Africa take on India at Willowmoore Park in Benoni on Thursday. Among those hoping to force their way into the national team are batsmen Hashim Amla and Neil McKenzie, fast bowler Dale Steyn and all-rounder Johan van der Wath.
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/ 16 November 2006
The Eastern Cape health department says it is not correct that extreme-drug resistant tuberculosis (XDR-TB) patients at a Port Elizabeth hospital are being kept in the same wards as other TB patients. This follows a protest on Wednesday by about 40 patients at the Jose Pearson TB hospital with the less virulent multi-drug resistant strain of the disease.
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/ 16 November 2006
Former England skipper Ian Botham expects current captain Andrew Flintoff to lead an Ashes backlash following the sudden departure from Australia of Marcus Trescothick. Somerset opener Trescothick returned home Wednesday after a recurrence of his stress-related illness forced him to quit the Australian tour.
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/ 16 November 2006
Cuban dissidents who were given millions of dollars by the United States government to support democracy in their homeland instead blew money on computer games, cashmere sweaters, crabmeat and chocolates, which were then sent to the island.
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/ 16 November 2006
Pakistan on Thursday test-fired a nuclear-capable ballistic missile, the military said, a day after agreeing to fresh atomic safety measures at talks with rival India. The Hatf V missile with a range of 1Â 300km was fired from an undisclosed location and the test was successful, it said.