Josh Cunliffe (21) eagled Wingate Park Country Club’s par-five 18th hole on Monday to take a one-stroke lead at the halfway mark in the men’s Sanlam South African Stroke-Play Championship. Cunliffe, from Dainfern, carded a 71 for the day and is on 139, five under par, with the third and fourth rounds to be completed on Tuesday.
Arsenal will need to pull off a first-class performance, as Monaco and Deportivo la Coruna did last season, to avoid elimination from the European Champions League by Bayern Munich on Wednesday. Liverpool, however, have a great chance of reaching the quarterfinals of the competition after beating Bayern’s Bundesliga rivals Bayer Leverkusen.
Zimbabwe’s ministry of foreign affairs confirmed on Monday that the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum will not be invited to observe the country’s election in three weeks’ time. The forum — comprising representatives of all SADC states, including Zimbabwe — has traditionally observed elections in SADC countries.
Bafana Bafana defender Mbulelo Mabizela joined Norwegian side Valerenga on Monday after being without a club for almost six months. The big Mabizela has been without a club after English Premiership side Tottenham Hotspur terminated his contract last October. He tried his luck at various clubs in Europe and Scandinavia without any joy.
A latex puppet of Prince Charles’s bride-to-be Camilla Parker Bowles, seen on the cult British television satire <i>Spitting Image</i>, failed on Monday to find a buyer in an eBay online auction. The 71cm-tall effigy of Charles’s long-time lover, seen on the programme in 1996 shortly before it went off the air, attracted 49 bids.
A seven-year-old Jordanian boy stole his father’s hard-earned salary to buy prepaid phone cards to vote for his favourite female candidate on a television reality show, Petra news agency reported on Sunday. The boy was enamoured by Algerian candidate Salma al-Ghazali, who appears on the <i>Star Academy</i> reality show.
Australian Super 12 players are concerned about excessive drinking and gambling among their peers, according to a survey released on Tuesday. The Australian Rugby Union Players’ Association survey of 84 professional players, including 27 Wallabies, found that 51,1% believed one to 10 members of their state squad had a serious drinking problem.
Two children died on Monday from injuries sustained in a stampede at an overcrowded soccer stadium. Another 45 people were injured in the stampede at a match between South Africa’s Kaizer Chiefs and Madagascar’s USJF Ravinala on Sunday.
A photograph of a Pretoria advocate couple in the nude is to be the topic of an application against a tabloid newspaper in the city’s high court on Tuesday. Lawyers for the pair, who stand accused of an array of sexual crimes against women and girls, have asked Judge Essop Patel to force the newspaper to reveal the source of the photograph.
South African gold-mining group Harmony has been granted a licence to develop a mine at Papua New Guinea’s Hidden Valley project. The licence was granted after a comprehensive licensing process, including intensive reviews of all of Harmony’s environmental plans under Papua New Guinea’s newly enacted, strict environmental legislation.