All Blacks flyhalf Carlos Spencer scored one try and set-up another on Friday to lift the Auckland Blues to an 18-15 win over the Queensland Reds in a Super 12 rugby match at Eden Park. The Reds, who hadn’t beaten the Blues at Auckland in the competition’s 10-year history, led against the run of play within 10 minutes of fulltime before Spencer turned the match.
The recent appointment of Lazarus Zim as CEO of Anglo American South Africa and the subsequent reshuffling of reporting lines have rightly raised questions about his overall influence and responsibility. It also makes one wonder if white executives now see the globe as their new playground. Another question raised was why was Zim not offered a seat on Anglo’s newly-created executive board?
The story so far: her hull holed by an iceberg, the ferry begins to sink. Todd and Janet declare their true feelings. DeShawn commits a faux pas when talk turns to prosthetic limbs and the Battle of Midway. The second instalment of the three-part sporting <i>Dictionary of Received Ideas</i> is presented, and the engine room floods.
The JSE Securities Exchange rallied to yet another record high on Friday, boosted by a weaker rand. Lack of sellers further helped the local bourse. By 12.02pm, the all share index advanced 0,43% to 13 598,83 after earlier trading at a best ever 13 626,86. Industrials were up 0,22%.
It’s not exactly secret, but it might as well be — a former nuclear shelter has become an operations centre for Symantec, the world’s largest internet security vendor. If there is a war in cyberspace, then this is the frontline. The bunker, designed to house 30 people for 60 days, is a relic of Cold War politics.
MPs will, for the first time, consider resolutions calling for the sacking of several magistrates convicted of crimes, or who persistently demonstrate incompetence in their work. Parliament’s test of the existing system emerged against the background of intensifying controversy over reforms to the oversight of judicial officers.
Countrywide pay protests by disgruntled truckers are to continue on Friday, the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) said in Johannesburg. ”We will push ahead until the employer starts negotiating in good faith and show more commitment to resolving the current disagreement,” said Satawu representative June Dube.
The largest and probably worst child abuse case ever heard in a French criminal court got under way on Thursday when 66 adults, including 27 women, appeared in a specially built courtroom accused of raping, sexually abusing and prostituting 45 children.
After four days it took a seven-year-old child to ask the question millions would like answered. As the Prince of Wales continued his tightly scheduled tour of Australia on Thursday he was confronted by Pamela Kenneally-Murphy at a primary school in Melbourne. Wrapping her arms around the heir to the throne she said: ”I hope you are in love with the woman you are marrying.”
A confidential report on the abuse of MPs’ travel vouchers currently being considered by a special parliamentary task team lends new weight to calls for legal action against Bathong Travel, the only agency implicated in the scandal which has not yet faced liquidation or criminal charges.