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/ 17 November 2006
The controversy around police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi was expected to be discussed at the African National Congress (ANC) national executive committee meeting in Johannesburg on Friday, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported.
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/ 17 November 2006
A grade eight pupil is to appear in the Frankfort Magistrate’s Court on Friday for allegedly stabbing a classmate, Free State police said. Following the incident on Tuesday at 8am, police arrested an 18-year-old pupil at the Reseng Thabo High School in Tweeling, said Captain Hennie Labuschagne. The victim was in the classroom together with his classmates.
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/ 17 November 2006
Chad announced plans on Friday to send troops to help its southern neighbour Central African Republic and confront what it said was a widening regional war waged by Sudan from its violent Darfur region. The announcement signalled an escalation of the Darfur conflict, which has increasingly been spilling over Sudan’s western borders into Chad and the Central African Republic.
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/ 17 November 2006
Tonga on Friday declared a state of emergency and reportedly prepared to ask New Zealand and Australia to send troops after eight people were killed in the Pacific kingdom’s worst riots to date. The government gave police and military sweeping powers to prevent any repeat of Thursday’s violent rampage.
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/ 17 November 2006
From Madonna’s <i>English Roses</i> to Gloria Estefan’s Noelle’s <i>Treasure Tale</i>, Ed Pilkington brings out the best and worst of celebrity books for kids.
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/ 17 November 2006
Environment ministers ground their way towards the end of a 12-day climate summit on Friday, squabbling over a blueprint for negotiating the next round of carbon pollution curbs under the United Nations’s Kyoto Protocol. The talks gathered members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change.
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/ 17 November 2006
Britney, Tiger, Gandalf and Madonna will soon join the more usual Peters and Janes in Britain’s playgrounds, while Harry Potter may also drop in, according to a new survey of babies’ names. Other newly fashionable choices include Snoop, after the United States rap star, who may end up hanging out with Reebok and Adidas.
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/ 17 November 2006
The budding South African film industry should draw from the country’s own rich and painful experience of the apartheid era and not try to emulate Hollywood’s big-budget movies, veteran actor Morgan Freeman said on Thursday as he appeared at Cape Town’s Sithengi film festival.
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/ 17 November 2006
Japan on Friday declared its bid to host the 2015 Rugby World Cup and bring the event to Asia for the first time, after learning lessons from its narrow defeat to New Zealand for the 2011 contest. ”We decided because of the enthusiastic support at home and overseas,” said Japan Rugby Football Union president Yoshiro Mori.
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/ 17 November 2006
The ruling African National Congress has an ”amazing self-belief” that because it demands a majority among the electorate, it has a divine right to do ”what it wants, when it likes”, official opposition Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon charged on Friday in his regular internet column.