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/ 25 January 2008
The African National Congress (ANC) has lashed out at a popular soap opera actress for claiming the ANC murders its opponents, and is considering legal action against her. The actress, Winnie Ntshaba, who plays Khethiwe in the soap opera Generations, was speaking at an Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) gathering.
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/ 25 January 2008
A brilliant young rogue trader, who spun an elaborate web of fake transactions from his desk, has cost France’s second-biggest bank â,¬4,9-billion in what appears to be the largest fraud by a single trader. Société Générale was on Thursday night struggling to shore up confidence in the banking system.
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/ 25 January 2008
A sponsored Opel Corsa van with ”Michael Mbanjwa, Dusi Gold Medallist” printed on the sides pulls up at Germiston Lake on Gauteng’s East Rand. As the driver’s door opens, out jumps Mbanjwa (24), who made history last weekend when he became the first black African to win the Hansa Powerade Dusi Canoe Marathon.
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/ 25 January 2008
Wimbledon crowds could learn a lot from the Australian Open. Like the British, the Australians have no players to speak of, so they do the next best thing and adopt a few for the purposes of the fortnight. They fell in love with Martina Hingis. Then it was Kimmy Clijsters, the Belgian obliging by getting engaged to Lleyton Hewitt. Now it’s Aussie Ana.
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/ 25 January 2008
It was with growing astonishment, anger and finally disgust that I read Corné Krige’s recent comments on new Springbok coach Pieter de Villiers. The most nauseating part of what read like a racist attack by the former Bok captain on De Villiers was a line from his final paragraph.
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/ 25 January 2008
"No longer are you a rogue street racer competing for pink slips or dodging cops and oncoming traffic at speeds in excess of 200km/h. You are now Ryan Cooper, an underground street racer recently gone legal and legitimate." Vincent Maher reviews <i>Need for Speed: ProStreet</i>.
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/ 25 January 2008
Guinea brought more drama to the Africa Cup of Nations on Thursday with a shock 3-2 win over Morocco while hosts Ghana struggled to beat rank outsiders Namibia 1-0. Pascal Feindouno scored twice for Guinea before being sent off for stamping on an opponent in a bad-tempered match.
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/ 25 January 2008
South Africa’s wealth gap is widening and the average black citizen still only earns an eighth of what his white counterpart does nearly 14 years after the end of apartheid. In its annual survey, the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation, said inequality rose from 0,60 in 2006 to 0,62 last year on a zero to one scale.
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/ 25 January 2008
An ageing South Korean crooner stunned a national TV audience on Friday by dropping his trousers and saying he was ready to prove he had not been castrated or dismembered in a love quarrel. Na Hoon-a spoke at a packed news conference to deny rumours he had been castrated.
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/ 25 January 2008
Sri Lankan warplanes bombed a Tamil Tiger base in the far north on Friday, a day after ground troops killed 30 rebels in clashes across the region. Seven soldiers were killed in the battles on Thursday, the latest in an intensification of the 25-year civil war following the official scrapping of a truce with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam.