I wonder if Ntambi Ravele, the outgoing Premier Soccer League marketing chief, is aware of the number of times she has said that ”leadership is not about whether one is a man or a woman, but about what he or she can deliver”. If it is not a personal mantra, it should be. It’s certainly firmly embedded in her psyche.
A sensational 57th-minute goal from busy Benett Chenene gave Orlando Pirates a 1-0 win over arch-rivals Kaizer Chiefs at the Eastern Province Rugby Stadium on Thursday night and the right to oppose England’s Tottenham Hotspur for a second time at Loftus on Saturday in the pre-season Vodacom Challenge series of matches.
We’ve been here before. When Seve Ballesteros won the first of what would become five Major titles, the 1979 Open Championship at Royal Lytham, it brought to an end a nine-year drought for European golfers in the game’s four most important tournaments.
Mounties in eastern Canada were called in to help round up rogue honeybees after a palace coup this week caused a split in the hive, a spokesperson said on Thursday. "The beekeeper came to us and said that he lost half of his bees, about 30 000 to 40 000 of them," said Cheryl Decker, spokesperson for the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
The retail price of all grades of petrol will fall by 15c per litre (c/l) on Wednesday August 1, the Department of Minerals and Energy announced on Friday. This follows an 8c/l fall on July 4 and a 23c/l rise that took effect on June 6. The latest changes bring the retail price of a litre of 95 octane unleaded petrol in Gauteng to 701c/l and to 677c/l at the coast.
In a prison cell south of Cairo a repentant Egyptian terrorist leader is putting the finishing touches to a remarkable recantation that undermines the Muslim theological basis for violent jihad and is set to generate furious controversy among former comrades still fighting with al-Qaeda.
It was the most eagerly anticipated event in this year’s German cultural calendar, set to make or break a young woman’s career. But following a cascade of boos and the comparison of her production of Die Meistersinger to a ”top-heavy pizza with a thick topping on a thin base”, things were not looking too rosy on Thursday for Katharina Wagner.
President Thabo Mbeki seized the occasion of his speech to the African region conference of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association on Friday to tick off a number of countries present who have not yet passed anti-terrorism laws. "All of us are obliged to take action to implement the provisions of the African Convention on Terrorism," said.
A correspondent for China’s international radio station who has not been seen since apparently abandoning his post in Zimbabwe was officially warned on Thursday to return to work. China Radio International posted a notice in the <i>China Daily</i> newspaper saying that Cheng Qinghua "left his post without authorisation" on April 20.
I’m sitting on a rough wooden bench beside Eero, a large Finnish man, next to a traditional smoke sauna in the middle of an island, in the middle of a river (in which we’ve just swum), in the middle of a forest, in the middle of Finland, which right now feels, blissfully, like the middle of nowhere. Naked. Vapour steams from our shoulders and thighs while my head appears to have floated free of my neck, writes Owen Sheers.