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/ 29 November 2006
Andy Robinson lost his job as head coach of the England rugby team on Wednesday with the Rugby Football Union (RFU) announcing he was standing down with immediate effect. ”On behalf of the RFU I am announcing that … Andy Robinson OBE is standing down from the position of head coach,” said RFU elite rugby director Rob Andrew in a statement.
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/ 29 November 2006
A pledge by the Democratic Republic of Congo’s (DRC) defeated presidential candidate to enter the opposition peacefully came as a relief to many on Wednesday, but concerns lingered that President Joseph Kabila may deny his party a meaningful role. Fears of a violent backlash were allayed on Tuesday.
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/ 29 November 2006
Opposition parties have strongly criticised Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang over her medicine-dispensing fees policy, with the Democratic Alliance (DA) calling for the suspension of the new fees system. ”It may take another protracted … legal battle … to convince the minister,” DA spokesperson Gareth Morgan said on Wednesday.
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/ 29 November 2006
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu has been named to head a United Nations fact-finding mission to the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, where 19 civilians were killed by an Israeli artillery barrage earlier this month, UN officials said on Wednesday. Tutu will travel to Gaza to ”assess the situation of victims”, according to the president of the UN Human Rights Council, Luis Alfonso de Alba.
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/ 29 November 2006
Mohammad Hafeez scored an undefeated 57 to give Pakistan a lead of 174 runs at close of play on the third day of the final Test against the West Indies on Wednesday. Pakistan reached 130-2 after plodding along in the final two sessions, having bowled out West Indies for 260 runs at the stroke of lunch for a first-innings lead of 44.
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/ 29 November 2006
The attack on the Highgate Hotel in East London 13 years ago was not carried out by the Azanian People’s Liberation Army, but by a ”third force”, a former police investigator said. Captain Daryl Els, now of the Scorpions, said he was ”99%” sure the apartheid-era security forces were involved in the Highgate attack on May 1 1993.
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/ 29 November 2006
The international community has failed Darfur, allowing the situation to deteriorate into ”a really dangerous regional crisis”, Jan Egeland, the United Nations coordinator for humanitarian affairs, said on Wednesday. At his final press conference before leaving office, he said: ”We all failed to help when there was still time in 2004. The world woke up too late.”
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/ 29 November 2006
South African President Thabo Mbeki should use the opportunity of the visit by Sudan’s Vice-President Salva Kiir Mayardit to ”impress upon” the Khartoum government that a strong international peacekeeping force must be allowed to be deployed there as soon as possible, says the official opposition Democratic Alliance (DA).
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/ 29 November 2006
There is nothing irregular or sinister about the use of seized vehicles by the police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, or the South African Police Service (SAPS) headquarters, police said on Wednesday. ”The vehicle in question is being legally used by various SAPS members at head office,” said Senior Superintendent Vishnu Naidoo in a statement.
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/ 29 November 2006
Zimbabwe’s registry office has stopped issuing identification cards, passports and other crucial documents to citizens as an acute shortage of foreign currency appears to be steadily crippling vital state departments and enterprises. Senior officials at the registrar general’s office told ZimOnline that the office had now suspended the issuing of identity cards and passports.