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/ 22 February 2008
Former Australia scrumhalf Matt Henjak had his contract with the Western Force Super 14 side terminated on Friday, but the Australian Rugby Union have not ruled out him returning to the game. Henjak had been found guilty by a Western Australia Rugby Union disciplinary committee of breaking teammate Haig Sare’s jaw after punching him at a Perth hotel.
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/ 22 February 2008
Clothing retailer Truworths posted on Thursday a 20% rise in half-year sales, at the low end of its expectations, as seven interest rate hikes crimped consumer spending. Truworths said group sales grew to R3,018-billion in the 27 weeks to the end of December, up 20% from the same period the previous year.
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/ 22 February 2008
POINT: The Olympic Games have their anthem, their rings, their heroes and their sponsors. And now, with the Beijing 2008 Games, they have their prisoners. The Chinese government is not just building fine stadiums, it is also arresting those who dare to condemn the countless human rights violations taking place in China.
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/ 22 February 2008
Tonnes of fish, from carp to exotic tropical specimens, have washed up dead along 320km of beach on Taiwan’s outlying islands because of cold temperatures, a local official said on Friday. About 45 tonnes of fish, some wild and some farmed, appeared on the tourism-dependent Penghu Island archipelago in the Taiwan Strait from February 14.
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/ 22 February 2008
Zimbabwe could save up to 300MW of power daily if consumers become more responsible and switch off lights and other gadgets when not needed, the state-controlled Herald reported on Friday. ”Zimbabwe … is in the middle of a severe power crisis. On two occasions already this year, the entire nation was completely switched off,” the Herald said.
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/ 22 February 2008
For the viewers of Turkmenistan’s popular nightly news programme, Vatan, it was another routine bulletin. But as the newsreader began the 9pm broadcast, viewers across the central Asian country spotted something unusual crawling across the studio table: a large brown cockroach.
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/ 22 February 2008
Wladimir Klitschko and Sultan Ibragimov bid to bring some clarity to the muddled heavyweight division on Saturday when they put their world titles on the line at Madison Square Garden. Trainer Emanuel Steward believes the fight could be Ukrainian Klitschko’s first step toward dominating the division.
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/ 22 February 2008
February 28 marks the end of the tax year in South Africa. There are 10 points South African private investors need to tick off before then, relating to retirement savings, capital-gains tax, travel-expense claims, donations, offshore investment and more.
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/ 22 February 2008
A formal inquiry by the Department of Labour into the exposure of poisonous fumes at a Cato Ridge manganese company will begin on Monday. The inquiry follows six cases of manganism that were reported at the Assmang plant. Manganism is acquired by overexposure to airborne manganese.
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/ 22 February 2008
There has been intense speculation not just in financial markets, but also at the headquarters of the Treasury over Finance Minister Trevor Manuel’s political future, and the possibility that new political leadership would try to push "team finance" in a different policy direction.