Oozing optimism and bonhomie at the start of the season, Kaizer Chiefs, Orlando Pirates and Jomo Cosmos were all confident of winning the Premier Soccer League crown. Now, with the tail end of the season fast approaching, the three ambitious clubs are battling for their lives.
Radar is being used to see if police Constable Francis Rasuge’s body is below the floor of her killer’s home, North West police said on Thursday. ”Police made use of ground-penetrating radar to check for any disturbance in the floor of the garage,” said Senior Superintendent Pieter du Plessis. ”The results will be available in two days.”
Twenty-four members of various cable-theft syndicates have been sentenced to a total collective sentence of 420 years’ imprisonment by the Kroonstad Regional Court, Spoornet said on Thursday. The syndicate members were convicted on 76 charges and received individual sentences ranging from three to 80 years’ imprisonment.
Oil prices rose on Thursday despite a United States report showing that stocks of gasoline, crude and distillate fuels all rose, as markets worried about violence in Nigeria, Africa’s largest producer and a leading supplier to the US. Gunmen seized four workers in Nigeria’s southern oil region, officials said on Wednesday.
The JSE retained its firmer tone at noon on Monday, supported by solid buying of platinum stocks, while media reports that BHP Billiton could be stripped and sold boosted the resource heavyweight. At 12pm, the all-share index was up 0,33% thanks to a 2,22% gain in the platinum-mining index.
Senior United States Democrats on Wednesday urged President George Bush to help end the ”historic crisis” over Paul Wolfowitz’s leadership of the World Bank as the bank’s board delayed a decision over his fate until next week. The 24-nation board said it had agreed to delay until Friday the deadline for Wolfowitz to respond to a bank panel report.
An Australian cricket tour to Zimbabwe would be a propaganda victory for President Robert Mugabe’s regime, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Thursday. Downer said he would try to convince officials that Australia’s cricketers would be providing comfort to a ”pretty barbaric dictatorship”.
A couple in the United States were sentenced to life in prison on Wednesday for the murder of their six-week-old son. Prosecutors argued that the parents, vegans who fed their son breast milk, soy milk and apple juice, did not make sure that he was properly nourished.
More than 300Â 000 people living with HIV/Aids need antiretroviral treatment in Mozambique, but only a fraction of them are actually receiving the drugs, national media reported on Thursday. UNAids estimates that at least 230Â 000 are in need of antiretroviral drugs throughout the country.
It was all but a one-horse race — a thoroughbred against a carthorse — as Premier League champions Mamelodi Sundowns went on a victory gallop at Ellis Park on Wednesday night and gave Orlando Pirates a football lesson during their sparkling 2-1 victory.