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/ 2 December 2006
The African National Congress condemned the behaviour of a crowd of people who disrupted President Thabo Mbeki’s speech at the funeral of struggle veteran Moses Mabhida in Pietermaritzburg on Saturday. ”Such behaviour is unacceptable for members of the ANC and alliance, and completely alien to the culture of the movement,” party spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama said in a statement.
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/ 2 December 2006
Car bombs tore through a fruit and vegetable market in a Shi’ite area of central Baghdad on Saturday, killing 43 people in another devastating attack that is fuelling an increasingly vicious cycle of sectarian violence. The bombing came two days after United States President George Bush met Iraq’s prime minister to discuss ways to avert all-out civil war and 10 days after the bloodiest attack since the US invasion killed more than 200 people in the capital.
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/ 2 December 2006
Central African Republic government troops, backed by French forces, have launched an offensive against rebels who had captured several north-eastern towns, the government and the French military said on Tuesday. The government in Bangui said its troops had retaken one town, Birao, which had been in rebel hands since October 30.
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/ 2 December 2006
A century ago, Paul Roos led the first touring Springbok side to a 29-0 win over a Midlands XV at Leicester. On Sunday, Chiliboy Ralepelle will captain South Africa against a World XV in the same English city and make his own indelible mark on history.
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/ 2 December 2006
Jim Furyk sprinted four strokes clear at the Sun City Challenge on Friday while former European number one Colin Montgomerie had a second round to forget, carding a quintuple-bogey nine in his 77. World number two Furyk shot a six-under-par 66, picking up three birdies on each nine, to finish 10-under on 134 after lightning held up play for nearly three hours.
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/ 2 December 2006
The World Bank has said that Angola needs to make the full transition from a centralised economy to a free market and better manage its spending. The World Bank also warned Angola needed a clear strategy for managing its oil and diamond resources through ”healthy and transparent governance”.
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/ 2 December 2006
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About 1,2-million people in countries hard hit by HIV/Aids are receiving life-extending drugs thanks to two major United States and international funds, double from a year ago, but many millions more need help, the funds said on Friday. The figures were announced on World Aids Day as activists around the world turned a spotlight on the scourge of Aids and pleaded for more action
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/ 2 December 2006
Two men were arrested in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Saturday morning for the murder of a policeman. They allegedly repeatedly stabbed Inspector Goodman Simelane (41) in his Ulundi home last week Saturday. The men, aged 26 and 18, were being detained in Ulundi and were expected to appear in the Mahlabathini Magistrate’s Court on Monday.
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/ 2 December 2006
Mixing a cocktail is no minor undertaking for a new breed of bartenders — it’s a matter of science. In kitchens and bars across North America, bartenders, or ”molecular mixologists,” are tinkering with liquid nitrogen, syringes and sodium chloride to make drinks while shunning powdered mixes and commercially flavoured alcohol.
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/ 2 December 2006
Paul Collingwood became the first Englishman to score a Test double-century in Australia in 70 years on a record-breaking day for England in the second Ashes Test at Adelaide Oval on Saturday. Collingwood and Kevin Pietersen shared in England’s highest fourth-wicket partnership in Ashes Tests as they pushed the tourists towards an unbeatable target on a benign pitch.