My mistake was to express how I lost patience with Jacob Zuma’s tendency to talk about bread when he is with bakers, meat when he is with butchers and pies when he is with both. My friend — a proud, urban Zulu man — thought he had seen through me. He accused me of hating Msholozi.
Share prices are tumbling and the yen is rising, but Japanese businessman on Monday got one thing to cheer — underwear to tame their bulging waistlines. Wacoal announced on Monday it was making a full entry into the men’s market with undergarments especially for men with a bit of flab.
Cash-flow problems and logistic headaches are blighting preparations for Sudan’s census, a cornerstone of the fragile peace ending a devastating civil war and paving the way for key elections. The largest civic exercise in national history will go ahead from April 15 to 30 despite complaints about disorganisation.
Everton lost ground in the race for a Champions League place on Sunday when they lost 1-0 to struggling Fulham at Craven Cottage, a ground where the Merseysiders have not mustered a point in 42 years. Fulham, second-last in the standings but now only three points from safety, won a scrappy game in the 67th minute.
The long wait ended in a fairytale triumph for Walter Khumalo when Free State Stars’ veteran goalkeeper came off eight months on the bench to instigate a tense and taut Nedbank Cup penalty shoot-out victory against Platinum Stars at Goble Park in Bethlehem on Sunday afternoon.
Overeating disrupts entire networks of genes in the body, causing not only obesity, but diabetes and heart disease, in ways that may be possible to predict, researchers reported on Sunday. The researchers developed a new method of analysing DNA and used it to discover that obesity is not only complex, but complex in ways that had not been previously understood.
World number one Roger Federer, in search of his first title of 2008, took no chances on Sunday as he moved smoothly into the third round of the Indian Wells Masters Series. The top-seeded Swiss, who enjoyed a first-round bye, defeated Spain’s Guillermo Garcia-Lopez 6-3, 6-2 in his first ATP outing since a first-round ouster at Dubai last week.
Extremists have to be excluded from dialogues between Muslims and Jews, the South African Union for Jewish Students’s Ilan Solomons said during the Cook for Peace event held at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) on Sunday. ”Extremists are always those small vocal percentages that create the stereotype of an entire nation,” said Solomons.
The items are like a march through some of the most famous moments in 20th-century American history, some of them real, some of them cinematic: from the shooting of Lee Harvey Oswald to the filming of Citizen Kane. But destiny is calling for the owner of the 850 lots that went under the auctioneer’s hammer over the weekend in a casino in Las Vegas.
Former Springbok captain Corné Krige has slammed the South African Rugby Union’s part in the contractual issue surrounding Springbok coach Peter de Villiers. De Villiers is still in limbo regarding his contract as Springbok coach, and will only sign it after a controversial clause on selection is removed