Next week sees KwaZulu-Natal hosting the 2006 Standard Bank Durban Motor Show, from March 17 to 21, at the Durban Exhibition Centre. Thirty leading motor brands will display their latest offerings at the event, and their ranks include more than a couple of exotics.
The oath-laden slogan of Australia’s new tourism campaign — ”So where the bloody hell are you?” — has been banned in Britain. The decision by Britain’s Advertising Standards Authority was announced in Australia on Thursday and will keep the Aus-million (-million) campaign off British television screens.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) executive board on Wednesday resolved not to restore Zimbabwe’s voting rights and to maintain a freeze on loans to the crisis-hit Southern African nation. Zimbabwe’s Minister of Finance, Herbert Murerwa, had hoped to persuade the fund to release badly needed financial support
Moroka Swallows’ Tsweu Mokoro, one of the shining luminaries of the current Premier Soccer League programme, is likely to miss the rest of the season with a torn ligament injury. ”I felt a little sick when I heard the news,” said Swallows MD Leon Prins on Wednesday.
Cigarette sales hit a 55-year low in 2005 and have fallen by more than 21% since state attorneys general negotiated a landmark settlement with the industry eight years ago. The National Association of Attorneys General said on Wednesday that the 378-billion cigarettes sold in the United States last year marked the lowest number sold since 1951.
A ”moving” building has got a Southern Cape motorist off the hook on a speeding charge, Die Burger reported on Thursday. It said Dr Helena Bruwer of Knysna challenged five summonses that claimed she exceeded the speed limit in an 80km/h zone in the Storms River area.
The race to save hundreds of thousands of Pakistani earthquake survivors from the harsh Himalayan winter has been won, the United Nations said on Wednesday. ”There has been no second wave of deaths, no massive population movement down the mountains, no severe malnutrition, and no outbreak of epidemics,” said Jamie McGoldrick in Islamabad.
AC Milan, Arsenal, Lyon and Benfica reached the Champions League quarterfinals on Wednesday. Defending champions Liverpool and nine-time champions Real Madrid are out, however. Three other clubs advanced on Tuesday — FC Barcelona, Villarreal and Juventus.
Black Leopards surprised their opposition Bloemfontein Celtic when they beat them 2-0 in an Absa Cup match at the Thohoyandou Stadium on Wednesday night. Ajax Cape Town also moved to the next round of the lucrative competition when they beat Silver Stars by 3-1 in a match played at the Athlone Stadium in Cape Town.
The ACT Brumbies are searching for more clinical finishing to realise maximum points against South Africa’s Coastal Sharks as they try to make up some ground on Super 14 rugby leaders Canterbury Crusaders this weekend. The innovative Brumbies will again have home-ground advantage against the 10th-placed Sharks.