The Otago Highlanders ran in four tries to two on Friday to beat the Queensland Reds 33-17 and ensure they remained marooned at the bottom of the Super14 rugby competition. After a rough tour to South Africa early in the series, the Highlanders made the most of the home advantage at Carisbrook’s ”House of Pain”.
The South African Revenue Service (Sars) announced on Friday it would be intensifying its campaign to encourage small-business owners to apply for amnesty, and as a result, a number of Sars officials will visit various business premises in Hatfield, Pretoria.
At least two people were killed on Friday when a cyclone slammed into Australia’s north-west coast, paralysing mining operations and leaving a trail of destruction in its wake. Authorities feared category-four Cyclone George had also claimed a third life and caused numerous serious injuries, but said they were struggling to reach remote communities lashed by winds of 275km/h.
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The expensive silverware to be awarded to the winner of the Cricket World Cup in the Caribbean has been damaged while on display in India, organisers said on Friday. A gold ring below the coins depicting previous winners of the sport’s biggest prize got detached from the wooden base of the 11kg trophy.
President George Bush on Thursday night started a five-nation tour of Latin America in an effort to salvage Washington’s reputation in the region and counter the influence of Venezuela’s President, Hugo Chávez. Violent clashes were taking place between police and masked protesters in the financial centre of São Paulo, the president’s first stop.
Zimbabwe’s Information Minister on Thursday dismissed as a ”grandiose flight of imagination” claims by a Brussels-based think tank that President Robert Mugabe’s iron grip on the country was being challenged and could result in political change by next year.
A total of 1,000 journalists were killed between January 1996 and June 2006, according to a study released by the International News Safety Institute (INSI) this week. “Nine out of 10 murderers in the past decade have never been prosecuted- This is the most shocking fact at the heart of the inquiry,” says Richard Sambrook, BBC global news director and chairman of the INSI study.
Gautengers rejoice, your cost of living is in the bottom quartile of 135 cities surveyed by <i>The Economist</i>. Johannesburg and Pretoria are ranked 100th in a survey of the world’s most expensive cities, having dropped 23 places since last year. This is according to the Worldwide Cost of Living survey, released by <i>The Economist</i> intelligence unit.
Gautengers rejoice, your cost of living is in the bottom quartile of 135 cities surveyed by <i>The Economist</i>. Johannesburg and Pretoria are ranked 100th in a survey of the world’s most expensive cities, having dropped 23 places since last year. This is according to the Worldwide Cost of Living survey, released by <i>The Economist</i> intelligence unit.
If you’re buying on credit at your friendly filling station you have to take two credit cards with you, one for fuel and one for the other stuff. So sensitive were the authorities in the past to the spectre of discounted petrol, that a whole separate credit card had to be issued just to ensure there was no discounting.