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/ 30 November 2007
Five foreign tourists, including a child, were killed in an accident in the Kruger National Park on Thursday, the park said on Friday. The accident occurred when the vehicle in which the tourists were travelling struck the edge of a bridge before plunging into a river.
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/ 30 November 2007
The retail price of all grades of petrol will increase by 43 cents a litre on Wednesday December 5, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. The latest changes bring the retail price of a litre of 95-octane unleaded petrol in Gauteng to R7,47 and to R7,23 at the coast — new highs.
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/ 30 November 2007
With Sri Lanka taking on England in a Test match starting this weekend, Muttiah Muralitharan stands on the brink of overhauling Australia’s Shane Warne to become Test cricket’s all-time leading wicket-taker. Murali needs just five victims to overhaul Warne’s total of 708 wickets. Some of those dismissed most by Muralitharan shed more light on the legend.
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/ 30 November 2007
David Beckham proved his superstar status on Friday as he trained in front of more than 15 000 screaming school children ahead of a weekend friendly between his Los Angeles Galaxy team and the Wellington Phoenix. ”David Beckham is Hot. I’m Cold,” read one banner in acknowledgement of the biting wind.
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/ 30 November 2007
It was almost inevitable that when South Africa coach Paul Treu sat down for the press conference preceding the Dubai Rugby Sevens tournament, he would be asked for his thoughts on the treatment meted out to Jake White. That was soon followed by a question about the Springboks’ World Cup victory.
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/ 30 November 2007
Three condom suppliers, the South African Bureau of Standards (SABS), Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang and Finance Minister Trevor Manuel face a R5-billion class-action lawsuit over defective condoms the Health Department distributed earlier this year, a media report said on Friday.
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/ 30 November 2007
A Sudanese court on Thursday found a British teacher guilty of insulting Islam and sentenced her to 15 days in prison followed by deportation, a defence lawyer said. Gillian Gibbons (54) was charged after a member of staff at her school reported her to the authorities for allowing her pupils to name a teddy bear Muhammad.
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/ 30 November 2007
South Africa’s monthly trade deficit jumped to a record R14,73-billion in October, compared to September’s R4,3-billion shortfall, the South African Revenue Service said on Friday. Economists polled by Reuters last week had forecast a deficit of R6,8-billion.
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/ 30 November 2007
Randel Parks pushed his hands into the pockets of his jeans and rocked back on the heels of his cowboy boots. ”I’ve been here 30 years,” he said, staring at the ground, ”and I’ve spent most of my adult life working on this property, turning it into my piece of paradise. I’ll be damned if I’m going to let them spoil it.”
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/ 30 November 2007
The discovery was announced two years ago amid fanfare and to the astonishment of the art world: a dusty batch of 32 previously unknown Jackson Pollocks had been found in a Long Island storage locker dating from the important period of his early drip paintings, 1946 to 1949.