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/ 4 December 2007
Next year’s Super 14 competition will trial several law changes designed to make the game faster and more exciting to watch. The decision to introduce the Experimental Law Variations was taken at a South African, New Zealand and Australian Rugby Unions meeting in Sydney on Tuesday.
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/ 4 December 2007
Brad Pitt launched his own regeneration project for Katrina-ravaged New Orleans on Monday, unveiling designs for a range of eco-friendly and flood-proof homes. Pitt, who had ambitions to be an architect if he had not taken up acting, commissioned 13 architectural firms to produce houses that would incorporate solar power and other environmentally-sound designs.
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/ 4 December 2007
United States intelligence agencies undercut the White House on Monday by disclosing for the first time that Iran has not been pursuing a nuclear weapons development programme for the past four years. The secret report, which was declassified on Monday and published, marked a significant shift from previous estimates.
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/ 4 December 2007
A once top-secret manuscript by Wernher von Braun, the Nazi physicist turned leading figure in United States space exploration, which is widely recognised as a milestone in the development of modern rockets is to go under the hammer in New York on Tuesday.
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/ 4 December 2007
Former South Africa opening batsman Gary Kirsten has delayed taking over as India coach, saying he wants assurances from the players over the job. ”I have heard rumours about some senior players expressing their concern about my possible appointment and I would prefer to have clarity on that before I commit myself,” Kirsten said.
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/ 4 December 2007
First there was economy class, business class and, on some airlines, first class. The discerning traveller can even book an exclusive suite, but the newest addition to the world of air travel is "green class". Unlike other classes, green class offers no exclusive perks such as vegan meals. Instead you could end up next to a snoring Texan who drives a gas-guzzling SUV and who paid a lot less for his seat than you did.
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/ 4 December 2007
I was shocked – shocked! — to read that comrade Jan Serfontein, recently appointed North West minister for agriculture, conservation and environment, has been accused of being a farmer who closes off water for poor blacks. I have known comrade Jan since I was young, having attended his farm school outside Potchefstroom for part of my primary schooling, writes Andile Mngxitama.
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/ 3 December 2007
Hello kitty kitty kitty … Are you an orphan? Are you Sudanese? Chadian? Are you a sub-Saharan African suffering from mild mental retardation? Are you an African woman suffering from the African male? Would you like an Oxfam biscuit? Organic antiretrovirals? Have you been raped? You might not know it, but you are an orphan, a refugee.
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/ 3 December 2007
The world’s first self-tuning guitar was unveiled to the public in London on Monday — an instrument that automatically detects when a string has fallen out of pitch and corrects it. The Gibson Robot Guitar was unveiled to the public by Mike Peters, lead singer and guitarist from the Alarm, the biggest band to come out of Wales in the 1980s.
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/ 3 December 2007
Higher inflation and deterioration in South Africa’s current account over the past year highlight the need for more balanced growth, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Monday. But it appeared that growth was becoming more balanced, with tentative signs that consumption was easing on higher interest rates, he said in a written reply to a parliamentary question.