The Dolphins and the Eagles will share South Africa’s premier domestic trophy when they drew a nail-biting SuperSport Series final at Goodyear Park, Bloemfontein on Monday. At the start of the final day it looked as if the Eagles were going to bat out the day and share the trophy as Morne van Wyk and Jonathan Beukes extended their partnership to 186.
A terrorist suspect alleged to have been involved in the Madrid bombings appeared before a London court on Monday as the Spanish authorities began extradition proceedings. Moutaz Almallah Dabas, a 39-year-old Spaniard, was arrested at his home in Slough, Berkshire, on Saturday morning on a European extradition warrant.
A high-school student went on a shooting rampage on an American Indian reservation on Monday, killing his grandparents at their home and then seven people at his school, grinning and waving as he fired, authorities and witnesses said. The suspect apparently killed himself after exchanging gunfire with police.
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The Northern Cape will have a balanced budget for the first time in almost a decade. This is the result of departments coming under the whip to stop perennial overspending, which caused an accumulated R844-million debt, according to this year’s Budget documentation.
Want to buy a lot of hot air? From April, investors will be able to trade carbon credit notes on the JSE Securities Exchange, as the emissions market contemplated by the Kyoto Protocol comes to life. The protocol, which came into force a month ago this week, sets emission limits for individual countries, and therefore companies.
Enforcing a human rights culture among South Africans remains the government’s main challenge, Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Monday at an African National Congress human rights book launch. Meanwhile, the Freedom Front Plus on Monday accused the ANC of destroying minority rights under the guise of correcting the past.
The Department of Health has directed its provincial counterparts and local authorities to remove various chilli powders and chilli-powder products from shop shelves and detain them for further analysis for the Sudan Red colourant. The colourant could increase the risk of cancer if consumed over a long period in large quantities.
Nigeria’s main oil unions backed down from calling an immediate strike to protest the use of casual labour on Monday but launched a new 21-day ultimatum to international energy giants and the government. A disruption to Nigeria’s exports will send a shockwave through markets at a time when oil prices are already near their all-time high.
Two graves, believed to contain the remains of the ”Mamelodi 10”, were exhumed at the Winterveldt cemetery, north-west of Pretoria, on Monday by the National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) to commemorate national Human Rights Day. The ”Mamelodi 10” were 10 youngsters abducted in June 1986 by the apartheid government’s security police.