TAPPE HENNING, referee for Saturday’s Super 12 match between the Stormers and the Sharks at Newlands, will attend the after-match press conference with his two touch judges, the Western Province Rugby Football Union said on Wednesday. With more and more referees joining the professional code, players, administrators and the media have asked for referees to […]
POLICE said on Wednesday that Western Cape United Democratic Movement provincial secretary Malizdo Diko survived an attack on his life on Monday night when several shots were fired at him near his Nyanga home. Police spokesman Captain Neville Malila on Wednesday said detectives are investigating a possible link between the attack on Diko and attacks […]
LAVA from the Mount Cameroon volcano is inching inexorably towards two villages, whose combined population of 1500 residents are preparing to evacuate, national radio said. Local authorities said they are “prepared at any time” to carry out the evacuation of Bakinguili and Batoke, some 350 kilometers (215 miles) west of Yaounde, adding that four army […]
AUTHORITIES in Malawi fear there will be a drastic drop in tobacco production this year, due to an increase in the price of inputs that forced many growers out of the industry, according to the Tobacco Association of Malawi. Tama chief classifier Gasper Banda said the organisation expects about 90-million kilograms of burley tobacco this […]
AUSTRALIAN rugby union chief John O’Neill said Wednesday he will seek a fair selection process for referees at October’s World Cup during next week’s International Rugby Board meeting in Buenos Aires. ARU managing director O’Neill wants the IRB to establish standard worldwide interpretations of the tackle and advantage rules. There has been concern here that […]
A FIRE in the Drakenstein mountains in the Western Cape hit the Franschhoek valley on Wednesday, destroying workers’ cottages and forcing their evacuation. The air force said three helicopters from 22 Squadron are assisting nature conservation authorities for a second day. The fire, which has been burning for over two weeks now, forced the closure […]
THE South African Municipal Workers’ Union on Wednesday demanded the Greater Johannesburg Metropolitan Council immediately stops its Igoli 2002 programme to revamp the Johannesburg central business district. Samwu said the plan has been hatched without any consultation with the city’s poor, and violates a national agreement on municipal restructuring concluded last year. The union threatened […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela ended his visit to Oman on Thursday by saying he is keen to see an institute for Gulf studies created in his country, the sultanate’s official ONA news agency said. The institute “is needed to promote a better understanding, not only in the political and economic fields, but also cultural,” he told […]
NATIONAL carrier Libyan Arab Airlines (LAA) said on Wednesday it is examining steps to resume international flights after the United Nations suspended a seven-year air embargo on Tripoli. “Technical committees will be set up to examine putting Libyan planes back into service,” LAA president Mohammad Abssim told reporters in Cairo, where two of LAA’s 12 […]
AMANDA COETZER, seeded fifth in the $520000Bausch and Lomb women’s tennis tournament on Amelia Island in Florida, took her second-round match against Lilia Osterlich of the US in straight sets, 6-4, 6-2 to advance into the third round. In other results, 4th seeded Mary Pierce of France’s match against Catalina Cristea of Romania was a […]