Mamelodi Sundowns courted disaster in a calamitous second-leg, second-round CAF Champions League game against Uscafoot at the Pilditch Stadium in Pretoria on Sunday afternoon — and paid a grim penalty. Sundowns drew 2-2 with their unfashionable Madagascar opponents after the first leg between the teams had also finished level at 1-1.
Silver Stars and Dynamos shared the spoils in their Premier Soccer League encounter played at Royal Bafokeng Sport Palace on Sunday afternoon. Both teams started the game in high spirits, trying hard to impress and get an early breakthrough.
Just months after winning Liberia’s presidential election, Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf has scored a masterstroke at the start of her mandate by ably negotiating the transfer of Charles Taylor to Freetown to stand trial, observers in the region said. After taking office in January, Johnson-Sirleaf initially decided not to involve herself in the problem posed by the former Liberian president.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma began his testimony at the Johannesburg High Court on Monday by recalling how he came to be involved in the struggle against apartheid. Zuma coughed nervously to clear his throat and held two fingers in the air as he was sworn in.
South Africa-based Dimension Data, a global IT solutions and services company, has acquired a 51% stake in ICL East Africa (Iclea), the leading provider of end-to-end IT systems and services in the East African region, for an undisclosed amount.
Didata announced the acquisition on Monday.
Rugby union will break new ground on Tuesday as the under-19 World Cup kicks off in the United Arab Emirates, the first time a major international 15-a-side tournament has taken place in the region. South Africa will be looking to retain the title they won a year ago on home soil after a 20-15 defeat of New Zealand, while local officials hope the tournament could pave the way for senior level events.
The situation in Tibet is a scar on the conscience of the world, Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said on Sunday. He was speaking after meeting the Dalai Lama in Dharamsala, his place of exile in India. Leon said the Dalai Lama emphasised that neither he nor his ”government-in-exile” were seeking independence from China, which they enjoyed until 1951, when China invaded and conquered.
A series of letters discovered in a Swiss cellar reveal how Bertolt Brecht, Germany’s famously uncompromising playwright, fell out with some of the 20th century’s most glittering literary figures, including the novelist Christopher Isherwood. Written in the 1940s during his exile from the Nazis, they show how Brecht insulted Isherwood after inviting him for dinner.
South Africa’s ability to fight coastal oil spills has been compromised by the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s failure to renew a marine pollution-fighting contract before its expiry. No private pollution-abatement vessels are currently under contract to the department.
The inquiry into the capsizing of a dinner party cruise vessel in Bahrain, in which 58 people, including five South Africans, died, is likely to focus on the final minutes before the dhow set sail. Survivors said there were long discussions between the captain of the Dana and the tour operator before the vessel cast off.