No image available
/ 1 December 2005
Stuart Baxter’s blues that surrounded his resignation as Bafana Bafana coach have been eased by a R6,5-million offer to join a team in Japan — and he says this is only half the amount on tap from an oil-rich country in the Middle East. ”But at this stage,” he said on Wednesday, ”it looks as though I’ll either end up in Japan or Spain.”
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
The Lions can call themselves the rain men after all three their games thus far in this year’s Standard Bank Series have been rained out. Their matches against the Cobras and Titans also ended up as no results due to rain. Wednesday was the second match of the series at Goodyear Park where rain had the final say.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
Wigan, Blackburn, Manchester United, Middlesbrough and Bolton reached the final eight of England’s League Cup on Wednesday. Manchester United were easy winners over West Brom, leading 2-0 after only 16 minutes on a penalty by Cristiano Ronaldo and another goal from Louis Saha.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
A severe cyclonic storm building in the Bay of Bengal has threatened to curtail the first cricket Test between India and Sri Lanka in Chennai, India, from Friday. That will be bad news for fans in Chennai who have already seen the past three international matches here fall by the wayside due to bad weather.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
Japanese pet owners can now embark on their foreign travels safe in the knowledge that their pampered pooches and moggies will be living in the lap of luxury at a five-star ”pet hotel” that opens on Thursday at Tokyo’s Narita airport. The Pet Inn Royal boasts 170 well-appointed rooms — not kennels — for up to 250 animals.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
Faced with suicide bombings, claims of Iraqi death squads and kidnappings, the Pentagon has come up with an innovative solution to solving the problems in Iraq: buying good news. The military has been paying Iraqi newspapers to publish stories written by a military propaganda unit lauding the United States mission.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
Three Mpumalanga teachers and a principal have appeared in the White River Magistrate’s Court in connection with alleged examination irregularities, an official said on Wednesday. The four from the William English Medium School, a private school in Hazyview, were released on bail of R5 000 each.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
South African financial and insurance giant Old Mutual plc on Thursday announced that it is amending its minimum acceptance level for Swedish life assurer Skandia from 90% to more than 50%. The group said all other outstanding terms and conditions relating to its offer for Skandia remain unchanged and as previously announced.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
South Africa has a new ”super trade-union federation”, but the country will have to wait until July to know what it will be called. The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) warned the super-federation not to take the short-sighted position of becoming ”a significant rival to Cosatu”.
No image available
/ 1 December 2005
Controversial Christian evangelist Peter Hammond confirmed on Wednesday that he has been charged with assault following what he said was a Halloween ”accident” with a paintball gun. ”It was meant to be a joke: nobody was meant to get hurt,” he said. ”I laid down a few ground rules: we were just going for teenagers, no kids.”