Popular South African football administrator Crown Monnakgotla died at a private Johannesburg clinic at the weekend after a short illness, his family confirmed on Monday. The family said Monnakgotla, a former Premier Soccer League employee, died late on Saturday.
Battered and bruised scrumhalf Craig Davidson has been rested by coach Kevin Putt and will miss the Sharks’ sixth Absa Currie Cup rugby outing of the season against the SWD Eagles at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Friday night. Davidson had 19 stitches inserted in his forehead after the match.
The South African Olympics team have suffered their first withdrawal after the women’s hockey striker, Bronwyn Ross, withdrew due to injury on Tuesday. On the day of the team’s departure to Athens, Ross, who twisted her ankle during training at the weekend, was told that her injury will not recover in time.
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The Inkatha Freedom Party has suspended national organiser and MP Albert Mncwango after he received a prison sentence on Monday for raping his former girlfriend in 2001. The African National Congress welcomed the 10-year jail sentence imposed by the Eshowe Magistrate’s Court.
The mayor, speaker and city manager of the Emthanjeni Municipality in De Aar have been arrested on charges of fraud, Northern Cape police said on Monday. The trio allegedly offered a local businessman a tender on July 2 in exchange for a kickback. The tender involved a municipal house that is to be sold.
United States Treasury Secretary John Snow, trying to bolster confidence on Wall Street and Main Street amid a new warning about possible terrorist strikes, said on Monday in a statement that the country’s financial system continues to operate normally, a testimony to its ”resiliency and strength”.
Government-ordered fee cuts are bankrupting Zimbabwe private schools, once among the region’s best, officials at one non-profit institution said on Monday. The nearly century-old Eaglesvale School, which teaches 1Â 000 students in western Harare, filed for provisional liquidation on Monday.
Mugabe law curbs church and charities
Firefighters searched early on Monday for more victims as they sifted through the rubble of a shopping centre in Paraguay destroyed by a blaze that killed nearly 300 people. Argentine authorities said they would make their hospitals available to blaze victims, and the Argentine air force readied a plane to speed more aid to Paraguay.
Big Ben, the famous clock tower on Britain’s Houses of Parliament, could be surrounded by an electric fence as part of new security measures to shield it from terrorists and publicity-seeking protesters, a report said on Monday. Big Ben is considered a trophy target for terrorists, the Times newspaper said.