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/ 8 December 2006
Barcelona and AS Roma made their own entries into the history books of the Champions League on Tuesday, although it was the defending champions who penned the most interesting reading. Frank Rijkaard’s Spanish giants calmed the nerves of their anxious fans with a 2-0 victory over Werder Bremen at the Nou Camp which secured entry to the last 16.
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/ 8 December 2006
Ethiopian troops have shelled a central Somalia town, two days after the United Nations passed a resolution to ease an arms embargo on Somalia, an official of the country’s Islamic courts said on Friday.
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/ 8 December 2006
The involvement of Cabinet ministers in the Gautrain rapid-rail project shareholding has been defended by South African President Thabo Mbeki, who has argued that there has been a determination to cast them in a bad light — motivated by the stereotype that black people are corrupt.
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/ 8 December 2006
South Africa’s current-account deficit continued to shrink in the third quarter of 2006 from 5,7% of the gross domestic product in the second quarter to 5,2%, the South African Reserve Bank said in its quarterly bulletin released on Friday. In value terms, the balance shrank to R90,4-billion in the third quarter compared with R95,3-billion in the second quarter.
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/ 8 December 2006
Reading through the heap of post-mortems performed on their cricket team by English journalists this week, the overwhelming impression was that the shock and palpitations being expressed were almost totally contrived. The analyses, though tending towards hyperbole, were fair and eloquent, and the outrage and frustrations well directed.
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/ 8 December 2006
Is there a man in football with more responsibilities than Stephen Pressley? The Hearts and Scotland stalwart is not only a centre-back and captain (though the latter is currently subject to debate), he is also his club’s shop steward, counsellor, leader of the players’ popular revolutionary front and whistle-blower in chief.
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/ 8 December 2006
Barcelona’s players woke up to a downpour on Thursday, proving that the rain in Spain does not fall only on the plain. The night before, the European champions sent out a message that, despite taking qualification for the next phase to the wire, they are alive and well in the Champions League.
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/ 8 December 2006
Ricky Ponting won the man-of-the-match award in Adelaide, making it two in a row, and that said almost as much about the manner of England’s defeat as it said about the victorious Australian captain. His runs — 256 in the first Test and 191 in the second — had something to do with it, but it was his positive leadership which tilted the balance.
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/ 8 December 2006
A combination of factors including complacency, the departure of leftist stalwart and former ANC provincial chair Makhenkesi Stofile and his deputy Enoch Godongwana, and alleged patronage lie behind the dramatic defeat of the leftist, pro-Zuma faction of the ANC in the Eastern Cape.
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/ 8 December 2006
Original ideas seem to be thin on the ground. Politicians reuse their predecessors’ policies. Television schedules are packed with the same old reality shows and police procedurals. And in fashion, retro rules, with designers currently channelling Eighties naff. It seems there is a fine line between inspiration and imitation.