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/ 21 November 2006
More than R810-million has been stolen in about 3Â 400 cash-in-transit robberies in South Africa since 2000, the Mercury reported on Tuesday. Its website said these figures emerged on Monday in the Durban Regional Court in response to bail applications by 26 men charged with two robberies in the Umfolozi area.
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/ 21 November 2006
Iran and Zimbabwe ”think alike” and ”should fight against Western superpowers and their evil systems”, President Robert Mugabe was quoted as saying on Tuesday. The Zimbabwean leader said his country and Iran had to come together and work out ”mechanisms for defending ourselves”, according to Zimbabwe’s state-controlled Herald newspaper.
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/ 21 November 2006
The frequent and widespread misquoting of Schabir Shaik trial Judge Hilary Squires was ”a most regrettable error”, the South African National Editors’ Forum (Sanef) said on Tuesday. ”Sanef was of the view, however, that the error was not deliberate and did not indicate any pervasive lack of professionalism,” it said in a statement on Monday.
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/ 21 November 2006
If violence, abuse and drug use are allowed to become a familiar and accepted part of schooling, the future is lost, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday. She was speaking at a school-safety colloquium in Pretoria. ”All of us must act and act in unison to indicate that these objectionable forms of conduct have no place in education,” Pandor said.
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/ 21 November 2006
Rome’s second-largest airport, Ciampino, briefly closed early on Tuesday following an anonymous telephone call claiming that a bomb was on board a cargo plane, airport officials said. Inspections of aircraft found no evidence of a bomb and Ciampino was reopened about an hour later, officials said. Six flights had been rerouted east to the city of Pescara.
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/ 21 November 2006
Platinum stocks were setting the pace on the JSE just after noon on Tuesday after renewed talk of a platinum exchange-traded fund sent the metal to a record high. However, a stronger rand kept a bit of a lid on the local bourse. Platinum was last quoted at $1Â 390/oz from $1Â 249,50/oz when the JSE closed on Monday. It earlier touched a record high of $1Â 415,50/oz.
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/ 21 November 2006
Michael Vaughan arrived in Brisbane, Australia, unannounced on Monday and laughed at suggestions he will play for England in Thursday’s first Ashes Test against Australia at the Gabba. The sidelined England captain told reporters at the airport he was in Brisbane only to receive treatment from England’s medical staff on his knee, reports said on Tuesday.
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/ 21 November 2006
English Premiership club West Ham United announced on Tuesday that it has accepted a takeover bid from an Icelandic group, which values the team at £85-million. WH Holding Limited, controlled by Eggert Magnusson, president of the Football Association of Iceland, and investor Bjorgolfur Gudmundsson, offered 421 pence per share for the east London club.
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/ 21 November 2006
Cricket South Africa has been informed by the International Cricket Council (ICC) that Proteas off-spinner Johan Botha has passed reassessment tests of his bowling action at the University of Western Australia in Perth and has now been cleared to bowl again in international cricket.
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/ 21 November 2006
An indignant Glenn McGrath says Australia doesn’t need an all-rounder to ease the workload on his 36-year-old body in Thursday’s Ashes Test opener against England at the Gabba. There have been suggestions that the selection of all-rounder Shane Watson, now in doubt with a hamstring injury, was made to reduce the bowling burden on McGrath and 37-year-old leg-spinner Shane Warne.