Tshabalala finally sent over a dangerous cross from the left, and though Mphela looked well placed to meet it he failed to get his head on the ball in front of goal and inside the six-yard box.

Peter Balaram, project director of Apps, the NGO trying to help in Anantapur, says: "Climate change is everyone's responsibility, but especially that of the industrialised nations.

The health minister, Manto Tshabalala-Msimang—a fan of beetroot, garlic and traditional medicine—was temporarily replaced this week as a strange lung infection confined her once again to hospital.