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/ 21 September 2007
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It seems this isn’t the best time to be an English rugby fan. For one thing, their team just seems to keep losing — even off the pitch! This week the internet was awash with rugby shirts bearing the ”036” logo after the English went down by that margin to South Africa last Sunday.
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/ 21 September 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=rugbyworldcup07_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/317644/icon_rwc_03.gif" align=left border=0></a>Who can save the northern hemisphere in this World Cup? It looks like either France or Ireland, but neither has had a remotely reassuring start to the Rugby World Cup tournament. The three Tri-Nations teams look safe bets for places in the semifinals, and most neutral observers would back Argentina to join them there.
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/ 21 September 2007
The British government stands accused of breaking its G8 pledge to help defeat Aids after it revealed it would only marginally increase its contribution to the Global Fund for Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
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/ 21 September 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi allegedly gave instructions for the three accusers of Ekurhuleni metro police boss Robert McBride to be put under police protection after receiving information from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) that their lives are in danger.
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/ 21 September 2007
Three suspended top officials are the first casualties in a clean-up by Home Affairs Director General Mavuso Msimang. In a ”broad swoop to turn things around”, the deputy director general of civic services, Joel Chavalala, and the chief financial officer, Pat Nkambule, were ordered last week to ”make way for the investigation to take its course”.
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/ 20 September 2007
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Wales rediscovered their attacking spirit to rout Japan 72-18 in their World Cup Pool B match at the Millennium Stadium on Thursday. They had the bonus point in the bag by halftime after four tries in the first 40 minutes and kept up the tempo after the break to score 11 in total.
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/ 20 September 2007
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Hosts South Africa were eliminated from the Twenty20 World Cup after paceman Rudra Pratap Singh led India to a 37-run win in their Group E Super Eights match on Thursday. Singh took four for 13 as South Africa made 116 for nine in reply to India’s 153 for five.
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/ 20 September 2007
The Congress of South African Trade Unions has thrown its considerable weight behind Jacob Zuma as its preferred candidate for the ANC presidency, in defiance of objections by ANC chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota. At its central committee meeting on Thursday the federation also endorsed ANC secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe for the ANC deputy presidency.