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/ 13 February 2007
Africa struggles to turn natural resource exports into lasting wealth because it fails to manage the revenues openly enough, World Bank experts said on Monday. ”We don’t know how governments and the elites receive their money,” said World Bank petroleum economist Eleodoro Mayorga Alba.
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/ 12 February 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) has yet to decide when its national executive committee (NEC) will meet to discuss a report into last year’s hoax e-mail saga. The NEC was discussing the matter on Monday, said ANC spokesperson Smuts Ngonyama. It has not yet been decided whether it will take place this weekend — as has been reported. The date will be announced, he said.
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/ 12 February 2007
France winger Vincent Clerc scored a try one minute from time to clinch a nerve-rattling 20-17 win over Ireland in a Six Nations clash at Croke Park in Dublin on Sunday. Ireland flyhalf Ronan O’Gara had landed a penalty with two minutes to play but from the resulting kick-off, the ball went loose and fell to French hands.
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/ 11 February 2007
A Japanese archaeological team has discovered three painted wooden coffins in Egypt, including two from the little-known Middle Kingdom period dating back more than 4 000 years. The sarcophagi were found in tomb shafts in the vast Saqqara necropolis south of Cairo.
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/ 11 February 2007
The Free State High Court has granted an interim interdict suspending the resolutions, decisions and elections at the regional general council of the African National Congress (ANC) in the northern Free State, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Saturday.
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/ 10 February 2007
This Valentine’s Day, one publisher wants you to be the one doing the romancing. Canada-based Book by You says it sells thousands of personalised romance novels each year with titles such as <i>ER Fever</i> and <i>Pirates of Desire</i>, where the reader is the star.
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/ 9 February 2007
"If we don’t deal with these allegations in an open and truthful manner, they will come back to haunt us for years and years." These were my words to ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe in mid-2001 after giving him information I had in relation to the controversial arms deal, writes Andrew Feinstein.
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/ 8 February 2007
Zimbabwe is using Western sanctions imposed on President Robert Mugabe and his coterie as a convenient excuse to explain its economic meltdown, the United States ambassador to Harare said on Thursday. ”Neither the US nor any other country has imposed general sanctions on the Southern African nation,” Christopher Dell wrote in the independent Financial Gazette.
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/ 8 February 2007
Tour de France winner Floyd Landis has said he will not take part in this year’s race, the French Anti-Doping Agency (AFLD) announced on Thursday. AFLD said they had postponed their disciplinary hearing into Landis scheduled for Thursday after the American promised not to participate in any race in France until the end of 2007.
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/ 8 February 2007
The African National Congress (ANC) expects 10 000 people to attend party stalwart Adelaide Tambo’s funeral on Saturday where both former president Nelson Mandela and President Thabo Mbeki will address mourners. Mandela will deliver a message of condolence and Mbeki will give the funeral speech at the Wattville Stadium in Ekurheleni.