Former England manager Graham Taylor on Wednesday blasted the Football Association’s search for the next national team boss as ”pathetic”. Taylor, who managed England from 1990 to 1994, believes the search for Sven-Goran Eriksson’s replacement, which began three months ago, has not been directed in a very professional manner.
The United Nations special humanitarian envoy for the Horn of Africa on Wednesday kicked off a tour of the drought-stricken region in Eritrea where concerns are mounting that food aid may be rotting in warehouses. Since September, Asmara has cut the number of free food aid recipients by 95%, from 1,3-million to about 70 000.
Global resources group Anglo American has commenced a process of identifying a successor to CEO Tony Trahar, who has indicated he plans to retire next year, Anglo chairperson Sir Mark Moody-Stuart said on Tuesday. Moody-Stuart told the group’s AGM in London that Trahar was determined to first complete the restructuring of Anglo American before stepping down.
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Primedia Broadcasting and e.tv have been granted permission to broadcast the judgement in the Jacob Zuma rape trial, Judge Willem van der Merwe said on Wednesday. He had granted the request after speaking to a number of colleagues about the matter.
South Africa’s producer price index (PPI) rose by 5,4% year-on-year (y/y) in March from a 5,5% y/y increase in February, Statistics South Africa (Stats SA) said on Wednesday. The PPI rose 0,4% on a monthly basis after February’s monthly rise of 0,2%.
Irina, a young consultant in a Western company, loves boasting to colleagues about her trip to Argentina and showing off her tan and holiday snaps. The only thing is: she’s never been there. And this doesn’t matter, according to the man behind this novel idea for arousing envy — fake trips with real side effects.
Australian cricketer Shane Warne may be called to give evidence in the trial of a taxi driver charged with the murder of a teenage passenger, the Melbourne Magistrate’s Court heard on Wednesday. Rajbinder Singh Shahi (28) is charged with murdering 17-year-old Xavier Salmon by running him down with his taxi after a dispute in December last year.
Illusionist David Copperfield has magically escaped getting robbed. After his show at a West Palm Beach performing arts centre on Sunday, Copperfield was walking with two female assistants back to their tour bus when four teenagers pulled up in a black car and demanded the group’s belongings, according to police.
Violence by striking security guards was doing harm to the good name of the South African Trade and Allied Workers’ Union, it said on Wednesday. ”It also frustrates us, because this is a big movement and we’ve worked hard to build a particular name,” spokesperson Ronnie Mamba said. ”So when in just a few weeks all the good work goes down the drain, it’s worrying.”
Arsene Wenger revealed he had been confident Jens Lehmann would make the last-minute penalty save that has put Arsenal into the Champions League final. Wenger was dubious about whether Gael Clichy had actually fouled Villarreal striker Jose Mari for the penalty, which Juan Roman Riquelme struck almost straight at Lehmann.