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A row is brewing among supporters of the woman at the centre of
the Jacob Zuma rape trial on Monday. The group said it was not fair they had to protest at the end of the street while supporters of the former deputy president stand opposite the Johannesburg High Court building.
Waco Africa, the South African business of Waco International, on Monday announced a strategic long-term Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) agreement with the Kagiso Group. Waco International was recently sold in one of the largest-ever foreign equity buyout investments in South Africa, for R5,4-billion.
Sappi’s CEO, Jonathan Leslie, has resigned from the company with immediate effect. The announcement is to be made by Chairman Eugene van As on behalf of the board at Monday’s Annual General Meeting. Leslie joined Sappi in April 2003 and has been chief executive of the business for three years.
Australia bounced back from their humiliating defeat on Friday night with a hard fought 24 run win in the third Standard Bank one-day international at St George’s Park on Sunday. South Africa were all out for 230 in the 48th over chasing 255 for victory.
Mamelodi Sundowns cruised into the first-round of the African Champions League after beating Lesotho’s Likhopo FC 3-0 in what ultimately turned into a desultory 10-man yawn at Loftus on Sunday afternoon. The Brazilians’ second-leg victory gave them an untroubled 4-0 aggregate success after Manqobo Ngwenya virtually sealed the issue as early as the fifth minute with the first of his two headed goals.
Real Madrid’s new chairperson Fernando Martin said he believed a smoother road lay ahead for the club following what he termed a ”very important win” on Saturday over city rivals Atletico Madridt. ”It was a very important win,” property developer Martin told reporters after the 2-1 success gave him a winning start five days after taking over from friend Florentino Perez.
Tiger Woods added to his impressive run of success as a frontrunner on Sunday as he parlayed his overnight lead into a one-stroke victory at the Ford Championship at Doral. The world’s number one golfer finished one shot in front of fellow American David Toms and unheralded Colombian Camilo Villegas in the ,5-million tournament.
Crash pulled off one of the biggest upsets in Academy Awards history, winning best picture on Sunday over the front-runner Brokeback Mountain. Crash, featuring a huge cast in crisscrossing story lines over a chaotic 36-hour period in Los Angeles, rode a late surge of praise that lifted it past the cowboy romance Brokeback Mountain.
Nobel Prize-winning South African author JM Coetzee became an Australian citizen on Monday, saying he had been attracted by the country’s ”free and generous spirit”. Coetzee was born in South Africa in 1940 and his writing, which won him the Booker Prize twice as well as the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, reflected the sufferings of a country torn by the racial policy of apartheid.
A Daily Sun newspaper journalist died after falling from the 16th floor of a block of flats in central Johannesburg during the early hours of Sunday morning, police said. Jonathan Mangena (34) was found lying on the pavement outside his residence at about 3:50am by one of the tenants who heard a strange noise, according to police.