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/ 21 November 2005
A powerful blast during play and Pakistan’s sharp pace attack combined to make Monday a scary day for England in the second cricket Test. The tourists — one down in the three-Test series — were 113-3 when bad light stopped play for the day, still 349 behind Pakistan’s challenging first-innings total of 462.
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/ 21 November 2005
President Thabo Mbeki called on Monday for good leadership in South African soccer. He was speaking at the laying of the foundation stone of the new headquarters of the South African Football Association at the FNB Stadium. ”Let us have a place where we can work and have good leadership,” he said.
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/ 21 November 2005
Vitamin entrepreneur Dr Matthias Rath has added Health-e news service to the long list of individuals and organisations he is suing for defamation with a R1,6-million claim. Health-e recently carried a series of investigative articles on Rath’s activities in Cape Town’s black townships.
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/ 21 November 2005
In an attempt to smooth ruffled feathers, South Africa’s churches came out in support of fast-food company Nando’s on Monday after it denied any involvement in an allegedly distasteful advertisement depicting Christ’s Last Supper. Nando’s was recently the target of an SMS and e-mail campaign opposing the advertisement.
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/ 21 November 2005
Gender equality is ”taking root” in African leadership, Pan African Parliament (PAP) president Gertrude Mongella said in Midrand on Monday. Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf’s election as President of Liberia shows ”the equality of women and men in organs of power is taking root on this continent”, Mongella said on the first day of the PAP’s fourth ordinary session.
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/ 21 November 2005
Kenyans voted peacefully on Monday in a constitutional referendum amid fears of violence after a bitterly contested campaign for the first major change to the country’s charter since independence. Long lines were seen at polling stations as up to 11,6-million voters queued to cast ballots on the draft.
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/ 21 November 2005
A Tanzanian man drank himself to death over the weekend after gulping down nearly a litre of vodka in an unofficial contest at a bar in the capital, police and witnesses said on Sunday. Witnesses said the man, in his 30s, and two other diehards began the fatal competition late on Friday.
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/ 21 November 2005
The cast and crew of the Czech reality show <i>VyVoleni (The Selected)</i> were cleared from the Prague villa used for filming before dawn on Sunday by about 40 security guards and dogs sent in by the site landowner over a rent disagreement, broadcaster TV Prima announced.
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/ 21 November 2005
A Nigerian state governor who had been charged in Britain with handling more than -million in stolen government funds has skipped bail and returned home, where he enjoys immunity from prosecution, officials said on Monday. The escape will prove an embarrassment both for Nigeria’s President Olusegun Obasanjo and for Britain.
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/ 21 November 2005
Egyptian forces shot dead on Monday a Bedouin leader in the Sinai peninsula who was wanted over his suspected involvement in a string of deadly bombings in the area, the interior ministry said. Egyptian forces had been hunting Salem Khadr al-Shnub for months over his alleged role in several deadly bombings.