As it did at last week’s national track and field championships, the notorious Cape Doctor had the final say in the outcome of the 56km Two Oceans ultra-marathon in Cape Town on Saturday. At times on the southern part of the course the south-easter wind gusted at more than 40km/h.
Passengers at Durban International Airport, some of them heading for the Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town, were so enraged when a Mango flight was cancelled on Saturday that one of them smashed a glass door and armed riot police were called, the Cape Argus has reported.
The United Nations is to hold its first debate on road safety amid warnings that the problem is a ”public health crisis” on the scale of Aids, malaria and tuberculosis. Next week’s meeting will follow research by the World Health Organisation forecasting that between 2000 and 2015, road accidents will cause 20-million deaths.
The Antarctic, one of the planet’s last unspoilt ecosystems, is under threat from mankind’s insatiable appetite for harvesting the seas. The population of krill, a tiny crustacean, is in danger from the growing demand for health supplements and food for fish farms.
When the Dalai Lama sat down on Saturday with Richard Gere and Robert Thurman, father of actor Uma and a United States professor of Buddhism, it was supposed to be for a few hours contemplating sacred art and silent meditation. But like almost everything the 72-year-old does, who he meets and what he says are picked over and pulled apart.
Some pundits are calling them the HillPublicans. They are hardcore Republicans who are going against their previous political beliefs and voting for Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton. The emergence of the HillPublicans now has many political observers poring over poll data and wondering what is going on.
The people of Afghanistan came together in a moment of cultural unity on Friday. The vast majority of them watched — some nervously in secret, others openly, gathered outside cafés — as the grand finale of the television talent contest Afghan Star was broadcast. The weekly show had become a national phenomenon.
Spacewalking astronauts stashed an inspection boom to the outside of the International Space Station on Saturday to assure the next shuttle crew can scrutinise their ship for damage. Latching the boom to the outside of the station was the primary task of the fifth and final spacewalk conducted by the Endeavour crew.
The Nampula provincial government in Mozambique will need at least -million to reconstruct infrastructure in five districts destroyed by Cyclone Jokwe, Francisco Mucanheira, the provincial permanent secretary, told Radio Mozambique in a report broadcast on Saturday.
Two men died when their light aircraft crashed on a farm near Van Reenen on Saturday afternoon, said Free State police. The two-seater light aircraft went down approximately 45km south of Harrismith, near the N3 freeway, said ER24 spokesperson Riana Beech. According to witnesses on the scene, the aircraft had completed several flights during the day.