The suspended head of the Southern Spears, Tony McKeever, wants his job to fight for the rights of the rugby franchise, the Herald Online reported on Wednesday. ”My suspension is illegal and needs to be withdrawn so that I can stand up for the rights of the franchise,” he said.
Jack Nicklaus holds the record in major championships, one that might never be broken because it was established through decades of superior golf and a few good breaks. About the only player who has even a remote chance is Tiger Woods. This record is about playing, not winning.
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After a season dogged by questions over his form and fitness, Ronaldo is planning once again to use football’s greatest stage as his platform to provide the answers. He has endured a miserable season in Madrid that has seen him jeered and booed by his own fans at the Bernabeu.
Do Hillary and Bill Clinton have a happy marriage? The New York Times evidently thinks so. In a 2 000-word piece that began on Tuesday’s front page, the newspaper printed the results of an investigation into the state of the Clintons’ marriage, noting that reporters had interviewed 50 people close to the power couple.
Dracula’s castle is to be returned to its rightful owner — who is not, it should be emphasised, a vampire, but an architect whose other home is in the suburbs of New York. At a ceremony on Friday in Transylvania, Bran Castle will be handed back to Dominic Habsburg, the grandson of Romania’s former Queen Maria.
The death of Aids-infected Nozipho Bhengu was unnecessary and premature, the Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) said on Wednesday. ”It is highly likely that she would still be alive and well today if she had chosen to take anti-retroviral treatment when she developed Aids,” the TAC said in a statement.
A mid-air collision between jousting Greek and Turkish fighters in disputed airspace over the Aegean Sea on Tuesday threatened to reignite age-old rivalries. At first both governments tried to play down the collision, which took place over the Aegean island of Karpathos.
South African President Thabo Mbeki has described his Nigerian counterpart Olusegun Obasanjo’s acceptance of the scrapping of a plan to extend his tenure as an outstanding act of statesmanship, an official statement said on Tuesday. Obasanjo (69) must step down in May 2007 after serving two four-year terms.
The United Nations holds the key to solving an economic and political crisis in Zimbabwe, President Thabo Mbeki told a British newspaper in an interview published on Wednesday. South Africa’s leader threw his weight behind a planned visit to Zimbabwe by UN Secretary General Kofi Annan.
Tow-truck companies are bribing police officers to ensure they are first at accident scenes, according to a report commissioned by Ekurhuleni’s police chief, Robert McBride. The report discovered, among other things, that some companies offer police free cellphones as an incentive to tip them off.