The social networking site MySpace claims to offer a virtual replica of the real world. It provides a forum to meet old friends, catch up on news, listen to music and chat with strangers. But like the real world, it also has its share of undesirables. The site has found more than 29 000 registered sex offenders among its 180-million members.
Angola’s state-run diamond company wants foreign companies as partners to tap what it believes are vast pockets of the precious gems, a company official said on Thursday. Angola, the world’s fifth biggest in terms of value, is exploring only about 40% of the territory believed to have potential for diamond mining.
South Africa’s producer price inflation slowed to 10,4% year-on-year in June, official data showed on Thursday, but a jump in the monthly rate continued to stoke expectations of higher interest rates. Statistics South Africa said June producer price inflation slowed from an annual 11,3% in May but increased by 2,1%.
A strike of thousands of public sector workers that brought Swaziland’s second city to a standstill was marred by violence on Wednesday. Police spokesperson Vusi Masuku said at least two shops were looted and one person was detained for violent acts.
After a see-saw ride in the morning, the JSE was trading sideways at midday on Thursday — seemingly tracking the FTSE 100, according to a trader. At 12:01pm, the all-share index was 0,10% lower from it’s close of 29 105,270 on Wednesday.
It is part of a series of friendly fixtures masquerading as a make-believe competition. But if there is a touch of the Mad Hatter’s illogic attached to the format of the Vodacom Challenge, it will not prevent what should be another near-capacity crowd from cramming into the Eastern Province Rugby Stadium on Thursday night.
A suggestion by a bungling Premier Soccer League (PSL) to league champions Mamelodi Sundowns to withdraw from the Telkom Charity Cup extravaganza at Mmabatho Stadium next Saturday has been rejected with the appropriate contempt. It was indeed the PSL who created the current embarrassing mish-mash in South African soccer.
Gunfire erupted across Baghdad and Iraqis danced in the streets on Wednesday after their soccer team’s historic Asian Cup win, but two suicide car bombs marred the war-ravaged nation’s rare moment of unity. Police said a suicide car bomb exploded near a crowd of jubilant Iraqis, killing 30 and wounding 75 in Baghdad’s Mansour area.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi, the 26-year-old world number one 800m runner, returned to his brilliant best at the Herculis Monaco Super Grand Prix on Wednesday when he won his event in a blistering one minute 43,74 seconds. It was the fastest time of the year and the first below 1:44. The gritty South African ran an outstanding race and issued a stern warning to the world elite.
Did Jim Morrison OD on a nightclub toilet or die of a drug-induced heart attack in a bathtub at home? Thirty-six years after the death in Paris of the <i>Doors</i> legend, biographers are locking horns over his final hours. The latest book on the life and times of Morrison says he was found slumped behind a locked toilet door on July 3 1971 in the Rock’n Roll Circus.