A Namibian friend once told me a story about going into a German-owned restaurant in the old Windhoek and ordering a sandwich. He was given bread and polony. When he asked if he could have butter on the bread to make it more palatable, the proprietress told him: ”No butter for natives.”
The Falcons pulled off somewhat of a surprise when they beat the fancied Wildebeest 25-17 to claim the Vodacom Cup trophy in Brakpan on Saturday. Playing in front of a vocal crowd, the under-rated Falcons players lifted their game to outplay a lacklustre Wildebeest.
The icy weather experienced over the country was set to continue until about Thursday when the days will become slightly warmer, the South African Weather Service said on Sunday. Forecaster Ezekiel Sebego said another cold front would move in over the Western Cape on Monday night, bringing with it rain for that area, the Eastern Cape and KwaZulu-Natal.
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Angola arrived in Hanover airport in Germany on Saturday ahead of the World Cup finals with threats by neo-Nazis of a march on the day of one of their matches. As the debutant West Africans became the third participating nation, after Togo and Costa Rica to set up camp ahead football showpiece, weekly magazine Der Spiegel broke the news about a planned anti-semitic neo-Nazi rally.
An immigration officer has been suspended following allegations that he offered to help a teenage Zimbabwean claim asylum in Britain in return for sex, The Observer newspaper said on Sunday. The middle-aged man offered to coach the 18-year-old rape victim on how to get through her asylum interview.
An oil tanker spilled up to 9 000 litres of crude oil into the Pacific Ocean, an official said. The coast guard and the state health department categorised the spill on Saturday morning as a minimal one, said Nathan Hokama, spokesperson for Tesoro, which owns the tanker. There were no immediate reports of harm to wildlife.
Port Shepstone rescuers are monitoring a mysterious situation in which ”numerous” eye-witnesses reported an unidentified object crashing into the sea, the National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) said on Saturday. Eddie Noyons, NSRI Shelley Beach station commander, said eye-witnesses reported that the object, possibly an aircraft, had crashed into the sea behind the breaker line.
Politicians should channel their energies toward the needs of South Africans, rather than battling it out for the position of president of South Africa or the African National Congress, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported President Thabo Mbeki as saying on Saturday.
Bono looks a little disappointed when he gets on the private charter jet for the flight to Maseru, capital of Lesotho. He is wearing dark glasses with pale lavender lenses. On the corner of the glasses is a little word — Red. This is the new ”virtuous brand” created in partnership with some of the world’s biggest companies.
For Iraqis, it was a grim fact of daily life. As a crowd of men, most of them impoverished Shia construction workers gathered after dawn on Saturday at a food stand in Sadr City in the hope of picking up a day’s labouring from the city’s gangmasters, a powerful bomb ripped through the crowd. Half an hour later the bodies — a dozen of the 19 killed — were laid out in a garden of the Imam Ali hospital nearby, their faces covered with cardboard.