SuperSport United continued their rampant run in the Absa Premiership with a convincing 2-0 win over Platinum Stars at Olympia Park in Rustenburg on Sunday. SuperSport have won five and drawn two of their seven games since the second round of fixtures got under way in February, and now trail log leaders Ajax Cape Town by a single point.
Lebanon’s political crisis has turned into an economic nightmare for the vital tourist industry, hard hit by a slump in tourists from oil-rich Gulf states who have been told to avoid the troubled country. Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Bahrain have advised their citizens not to travel to a country in the grip of its worst political crisis since the end of the civil war in 1990.
Dr Ihron Rensburg, the University of Johannesburg’s vice- chancellor, is in the news again. A new house worth R5-million is being built for him because he doesn’t like the one his predecessors occupied. I have sympathy for the argument that such excesses have no place in this country, but there is cause to reconsider.
The FA Cup will boast one Premier League side in the last four after Cardiff City continued a weekend of shocks by beating Middlesbrough 2-0 on Sunday. First-half goals from Peter Whittingham and Roger Johnson handed the Championship (second division) side a deserved win at the Riverside.
South Africa’s Sasol, the world’s biggest maker of fuels from coal, posted an 18% rise in headline earnings per share, and said on Monday it expected good earnings growth for 2008. Headline earnings per share, the key profit measure for South African companies, rose to R14,56.
South Africa is considering bidding for the 2015 Rugby World Cup. South Africa has sent a letter to the International Rugby Board (IRB) tails on the tender process, which is expected to end next year. SA Rugby managing director Jonathan Stones said the IRB was thinking of staging every ”two out of three” World Cups in European time zones.
Burma opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi was taken to a state guest house in the former capital on Monday for her second meeting in two days with visiting United Nations envoy Ibrahim Gambari. UN officials gave no details of Gambari’s planned discussions with the Nobel laureate.
About 45 people were hospitalised during the Argus Cycle Tour in Cape Town, two of them with suspected heart attacks, doctors at the race said on Sunday. Speaking from the medical tent at the finish line, the Dr Sue le Roux said there had been ”a lot” of cases of chest pain, which could have been heart-related or due to other causes like bronchitis.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, South Africa’s star 800m runner, narrowly failed to win his second world indoor gold medal in Valencia on Sunday night but he ran one of the best races of his career only to be beaten by a sensational Sudanese 18-year-old star, Abubaker Kaki Khamis.
In its half-century history, the European Union has absorbed wave upon wave of immigrants. Now, according to the EU’s two senior foreign policy officials, Europe needs to brace itself for a new wave of migration with a very different cause — global warming.