Two South African pilots were killed on Thursday when their plane crashed on approach to the town of Lubutu in the northern regions of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). The pilots died when the South African-registered Convair 580 aircraft they were piloting fell from the sky on approach to the Amisi airport at Lubutu.
Veteran marathon runner Wally Hayward has died at the age of 97, the Comrades Marathon Association said on Friday. Hayward’s athletic career spanned a period of 60 years, during which he competed and excelled at distances from 100m to 100 miles, the association said in a statement.
Veteran marathon runner Wally Hayward has died at the age of 97, the Comrades Marathon Association said on Friday. Hayward’s athletic career spanned a period of 60 years, during which he competed and excelled at distances from 100m to 100 miles, the association said in a statement.
After David Livingstone and Henry Stanley, the trickle of missionaries and explorers with thick moustaches, some good, most bad, became a flood. Livingstone’s quest for a ”free, civilised and Christian” Africa, not in the least hampered by his lack of discussion with the Africans themselves, became the beacon for a motley crew of chancers from Europe.
In response to at least a dozen e-mails and letters asking, sometimes desperately, for help, this week’s Loose Cannon takes the form of an Agony column, giving judicious advice to those in need.
Senior African National Congress officials, including President Thabo Mbeki, paid their last respects to anti-apartheid activist Ellen Kuzwayo at the St John’s Anglican Parish in Soweto on Friday. Mbeki told hundreds of mourners that this country is free because people like Kuzwayo refused to succumb to despair.
A senior United States politician assailed Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday for calling Equatorial Guinea President Teodoro Obiang Nguema a ”good friend” despite criticism of his human rights record. Democratic Senator Carl Levin said Rice sent the message that the United States was more interested in oil than human rights.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu has appeared to endorse the notion of collective guilt for apartheid in comments made about whites, says South Africa’s leader of the opposition. Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon said in his regular Friday column, <i>SA Today</i>, that Tutu is, indeed, "no racial nationalist".
Drive into Mamelodi Sundowns’ Midrand headquarters in Chloorkop and the parking lot is crowded with so many luxury cars you would think you had inadvertently ventured into the flashy Detroit or Paris motor shows. It’s going to be even glitzier after the Brazilians virtually clinched the Premier Soccer League title on Wednesday night with a stirring 3-1 win against Classic.
The Pumas strengthened their chances of qualifying for this year’s Currie Cup after beating the Griffons 37-27 in a Vodacom Cup match in Witbank on Thursday. The Pumas scored four tries to move to 32 points on the log, four points ahead of the Leopards, who play the Border Bulldogs in East London on Friday.