Sharks rugby coach Dick Muir has resolved the issues he had with timekeeper Gabriel Pappas following last Saturday’s Super 14 clash against the Lions at Ellis Park. Muir was involved in an altercation with Pappas after Sharks hooker Bismarck du Plessis was not allowed to return to the game following treatment for a cut to his eye.
At least three protesting students at the University of KwaZulu-Natal’s Pietermaritzburg campus were wounded by police firing rubber bullets on Tuesday, the students’ representative council said. Police spokesperson Inspector Joey Jeevan said officers used rubber bullets to disperse the crowd at 10am.
African National Congress president Jacob Zuma will on Tuesday lead the party’s delegation to Angola to mark the 20th anniversary of the battle of Cuito Cuanavale. The delegation is expected to return home on Monday. A parliamentary delegation left from Pretoria on Friday in a convoy to Cuito Cuanavale to commemorate the battle.
A Johannesburg businessman is seeking an interdict from the Pretoria High Court to stop the disbandment of the Scorpions elite crime-fighting unit. In a statement issued by Hugh Glenister, he argues that the disbanding of the unit would ”not be rationally connected to a legitimate governmental purpose”.
The body of a miner who was crushed by rocks at the Beatrix gold mine at Welkom two weeks ago has not been exhumed, Gold Fields said on Tuesday. ”We temporarily suspended the removal of the rocks last week because it was becoming dangerous for the rescue team,” said spokesperson Andrew Davidson.
A company owned by the ruler of Dubai plans to invest -million in Mauritius’s financial, real estate and tourism sectors ”over the coming years”, officials in the Indian Ocean nation said on Tuesday. The announcement was made by the Mauritian Board of Investment on its website.
The Dalai Lama said on Tuesday he will stand down if violence in Tibet spirals out of control, after the Chinese accused him of masterminding the unrest. ”If things become out of control then my only option is to completely resign,” the Dalai Lama, Tibet’s exiled spiritual leader, told a news conference.
The JSE was little changed at its softer levels by midday on Tuesday as investors took to the sidelines ahead of the United States Federal Open Market Committee’s rates decision later in the day. By noon, the JSE’s broader all-share index was down 0,86%. Resources fell 2,26%, the gold mining index dropped 1,76% and the platinum mining index shed 0,76%.
Aids-related deaths in South Africa: 2 424 770 at noon on March 18 Mothers and children in South Africa are dying in alarming numbers. Far from being on track to meet the Millennium Development Goal (MDG) of reducing child mortality by two-thirds, the country is among only a dozen worldwide where child deaths are rising. […]
For the seven days I drove the BMW 335i convertible, I couldn’t help letting those revs reach their limit, I couldn’t help kicking in that clutch pedal and I couldn’t help but let that engine rip just for the acoustics, for that throaty, spine-tingling growl. Beautiful, yet brutal, but not so brutal that it can’t be enjoyed, writes Sukasha Singh.