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/ 6 December 2006
World soccer governing body Fifa announced on Wednesday that the next World Cup will take place between June 11 and July 11 2010, and granted South Africa an automatic berth as host nation. Fifa’s executive committee decided to maintain the qualifying set-up used at this year’s World Cup in Germany.
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/ 6 December 2006
The government’s accelerated effort to contain the impact of HIV and Aids will move South Africa from a confrontational platform of reactive crisis management to a win-win platform of comprehensive response, the United Nations Children Fund said on Wednesday. Its comment comes after Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka launched a new HIV/Aids plan last week.
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/ 6 December 2006
Britain’s prime minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown pledged on Wednesday to use faster economic growth to fund a £36-billion rise in education spending to help the nation compete with India and China. Throwing down the gauntlet to opposition Conservative leader David Cameron, Finance Minister Brown set out the priorities for his likely premiership.
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/ 6 December 2006
United States troops should begin withdrawing from combat and Washington should launch a diplomatic and political push to halt a ”grave and deteriorating” crisis in Iraq, a high-level panel studying the war said on Wednesday. US President George Bush said he would take the highly anticipated report ”very seriously”.
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/ 6 December 2006
What a strange business the Nationwide fracas has been. What is spin and what is the truth?
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/ 6 December 2006
The National Prosecuting Authority is to ask the Durban High Court to request that Mauritian authorities hand over documentation which may show that a meeting took place between Jacob Zuma, Schabir Shaik and the former chief executive of French arms manufacturer Thint.
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/ 6 December 2006
South Africa and Australia signed a letter of intent on Wednesday to cooperate on climate-change issues, the Ministry of Environmental Affairs and Tourism said. ”South Africa and Australia are at comparable latitude in the southern hemisphere and consequently have similar climatic conditions,” Minister Marthinus van Schalkwyk said in a statement.
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/ 6 December 2006
Joseph Kabila was sworn in on Wednesday as the first democratically elected president of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) at a colourful ceremony attended by thousands of guests and seen by many as a possible turning point for the war-ravaged nation. Kabila raised his right hand before Supreme Court judges and pledged to ”uphold and defend the Constitution”.
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/ 6 December 2006
Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and Minister of Science and Technology Mosibudi Mangena are the government’s top 2006 performers, while Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang continues to languish at the bottom of the class, according to the Democratic Alliance’s (DA) end-of-year Cabinet report card.
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/ 6 December 2006
There is little joy for consumers in Zimbabwe this festive season where the cost of living shot up by nearly 50% last month, the Consumer Council of Zimbabwe was reported as saying on Wednesday. An urban family now needs ZÂ 000 () to meet its basic food, housing, transport and clothing needs for a month, way above the average wage, the consumer watchdog said.