The acting fraternity was "utterly devastated" by the death of Bill Flynn on Wednesday, said producer Bobby Heaney. "Bill was the most loved actor in the whole country." Flynn’s highly successful career included leading roles in more than 140 stage plays, musicals, 42 films and dozens of television shows.
A former Scorpions advocate was bitten, assaulted, tied up with duct tape and two attempts were made to rape her, the Pretoria Regional Court heard on Wednesday. The grandson of an employee at the Namibian high commission is accused in the case.
The Johannesburg High Court has ordered Ekurhuleni metro police chief Robert McBride and five of his metro police officers not to intimidate, harass or threaten three of their colleagues. However, the court stopped short of ordering that they be kept 100m from the men.
Local actor Bill Flynn has died, it was reported on Wednesday. It was understood that he had suffered a heart attack, according to the report. Flynn (58) was a respected and much-loved figure in the entertainment industry. A stage and screen actor, he was known for his roles in films such as Heel Against the Head and Running Riot.
Norway’s Thor Hushovd claimed his first victory of the year when he clinched the fourth stage of the Tour de France, a 193km trek from Villers-Cotterets to Joigny on Wednesday. The Credit Agricole rider, who won the green jersey in 2005, launched the bunch sprint 350m from the finish line to edge Barloworld’s South African rider Robert Hunter for the win.
Zimbabwe business leaders held out an olive branch to the government on Wednesday over its controversial price controls, pledging to make goods more affordable and accepting there would be no let-up of a crackdown that has seen hundreds of retailers arrested.
South Africa remains one of only two countries in the world to offer life policies for people with HIV/Aids, the Life Offices’ Association (LOA) said on Wednesday. Three of South Africa’s biggest life-insurance companies were the first to introduce life policies for people with HIV/Aids in 2001, with The Netherlands following suit only last year, a statement said.
Western Province rugby coaches Kobus van der Merwe and his assistant, Jerome Paarwater, resigned from their posts on Wednesday. This was confirmed by Western Province Rugby Union CEO Rob Wegner, who said it was mutually agreed by his union and the coaches that in the interest of Western Province rugby the coaches would step down.
An 11-strong crew of mostly German explorers set out from New York on Wednesday on a reed boat bound for southern Spain in a bid to prove that Stone Age man conducted similar trans-Atlantic voyages. ”We want to rewrite history,” Dominique Goerlitz, a botanist and experimental archeologist leading the expedition said.
A Chilean Supreme Court judge has ruled that former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori should not be extradited to Peru to face human rights and corruption charges, a court spokesperson said on Wednesday. ”Judge Orlando Alvarez … rejected the extradition request presented by the Peruvian government against Alberto Fujimori.”