Makhaya Ntini and Dale Steyn put in match-winning performances to wrap up the New Zealand innings on the fifth morning of the first Castle Lager Test at Supersport Park on Wednesday. The two pace bowlers needed just 33 minutes to bowl New Zealand out for 120 runs, to give South Africa victory by 128 runs.
He was behind the worst act of terrorism ever carried out on Japanese soil, but in the eyes of Kaori, his youngest daughter, Shoko Asahara was ”a loving father” who taught her and her siblings to cherish all living things. ”I remember him as a very kind, very proud man,” she said as her father’s lawyers battled to save him from the gallows for masterminding the March 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway.
Eberhardt Rechtin, an engineer who played a key role in the development of space technology during the Cold War, has died. He was 80. Rechtin died on Friday at Torrance Memorial Hospital in California after lengthy battles with several illnesses, his family said in a statement.
The United States has made no deal with Somalia to run anti-piracy patrols off its coast, a US official said on Tuesday, denying claims by the East African country’s prime minister. ”There is no such deal as alleged,” said the State Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity. ”We haven’t made any arrangement to patrol those waters.”
The JSE’s all-share index was looking strong in noon trade on Wednesday after breaking above the 21 000 level for the first time in opening trade. The bourse was supported by global markets and commodity prices, and the negative effect of a stronger rand was minimal.
Greater liberalisation of international trade would open up market opportunities for South African agriculture, and the important reforms the country has undertaken over the last 20 years have prepared it to reap the benefits, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said in a report released on Wednesday.
Pulp and paper group Sappi has announced that as part of its ongoing support of the South African government’s broad-based black economic empowerment (BEE) objectives, 25% of its South African plantation land portfolio would be sold to an empowerment consortium.
Chadian President Idriss Déby on Tuesday said he had full control of the country after last week’s failed rebel offensive and vowed presidential elections would go ahead as planned on May 3. ”We have the situation in hand throughout the whole of Chad,” Déby told a press conference in N’djamena, the capital that was rocked by a rebel offensive last Thursday.
Chelsea may need just a point to retain their Premiership title when Manchester United arrive at Stamford Bridge a week on Saturday but that won’t stop the second-placed visitors from going all out to erase a bitter recent memory. United, on the instruction of manager Alex Ferguson, formed a guard of honour to applaud the newly-crowned champions on to the Old Trafford pitch last season.
Online advertising revenue in South Africa is expected to reach R183-million in 2006, and to pass the R200-million mark in 2007, according to a new survey from World Wide Worx. It took the online publishing industry nine years, from 1994 to 2003, to grow to the R60-million revenue mark, yet it is set to treble that amount in the subsequent three years.