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/ 5 November 2006
A mortar attack on a Sunni district of Baghdad killed six people and gunmen kidnapped a legal expert, a security official said on Sunday, as Iraq braced itself for Saddam Hussein’s judgement day. Iraq’s beleaguered military was on a war footing and a total curfew came into force in three flashpoint provinces.
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/ 5 November 2006
Kenyan Muslims on Saturday accused the United States of lying about plans by Somali Islamists to carry out suicide attacks in Kenya and Ethiopia. The Supreme Council of Kenyan Muslims said Washington is using the alleged threats as a ploy to attack and destroy Somalia’s powerful Islamist movement.
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/ 5 November 2006
Political inequality in South Africa may be a thing of the past, but the racial and gender divide appears very much intact when it comes to the boardroom, a new book shows. ”It is a hell of a slow pace … Not much of an improvement,” says Renee Bonorchis, co-author of Executive Pay in South Africa — Who Gets What and Why.
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/ 5 November 2006
Self-proclaimed Premier Soccer League ”Cup Kings” Supersport United were shown the exit from the Telkom Knockout by an enterprising Black Leopards at Thohoyandou on Saturday afternoon as their hopes of securing the new competition’s record winners’ prize of R4,25-million bit the dust.
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/ 5 November 2006
Manchester United beat Portsmouth 3-0 on Saturday to move three points clear atop the Premier League standings. Also on Saturday, Liverpool beat Reading 2-0, Everton lost 1-0 at Fulham, Watford beat Middlesbrough 2-0 for their first win of the season, Sheffield United won 1-0 at Newcastle and Charlton edged Manchester City 1-0.
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/ 5 November 2006
South Africa’s standing in the international golf rankings is set to rise a notch or two in January next year with the launch of the inaugural Jo’burg Open. A public-sector partnership has rallied round the first staging of the multimillion-rand event, to be hosted at Royal Johannesburg and Kensington Golf Club from January 11 to 14.
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/ 5 November 2006
Zimbabwe will return to Test cricket in November 2007, almost two years after they volunteered to withdraw from tests because they were not competitive. Zimbabwe coach Kevin Curran announced in September the team will be ready in November next year, and that is ”realistic”, International Cricket Council president Percy Sonn said on Saturday.
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/ 5 November 2006
The first 100 troops of Liberia’s new army graduated on Saturday, as the country’s vice-president called for a new relationship after decades of military rule and civil war. About 500 people attended the passing-out parade at a Monrovia barracks of the troops, resplendent in new uniforms paid for by the United States government.
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/ 5 November 2006
The generous tributes paid by the first two black presidents of South Africa to one-time arch foe PW Botha have left many compatriots bemused and warning against a rewrite of apartheid’s history. Botha, regarded as an international pariah during his 11-year leadership of a whites-only government, died last week.
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/ 5 November 2006
As summer descends on Cape Town, visitors and locals are swapping bikinis for ponchos at the coastal city’s latest and undoubtedly coolest attraction — a cocktail lounge made entirely of ice. Sixty tonnes of frozen water have been used to construct the Ice Lounge in the Victoria and Alfred Waterfront complex.