The Smart car on Tuesday visited the city built on massive motoring muscle as part of a 50-city road show designed to demonstrate why backers say the tiny two-seater is ”the right car at the right time” for the United States. The summer road show precedes the US launch of the Smart fortwo early next year.
Italy will, if requested, be ready to help South Africa with safety and security issues during the 2010 World Cup, its Deputy Prime Minister, Massimo D’Alema, said on Tuesday. D’Alema was hosted by Foreign Affairs Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma in Pretoria where bilateral political and economic discussions between the two took place.
Former Talk Radio 702 chief executive and veteran radio presenter Stan Katz appeared in the Randburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday on two charges of assaulting his former wife Philippa Sklaar. The clerk of the court said Katz faced two charges of assault with intent to do grievous bodily harm.
Defending champions Kaizer Chiefs and Limpopo heroes Black Leopards will parade their new signings and give their fans a taste of their entertaining brand of soccer when the Limpopo Soccer Challenge takes place at the Peter Mokaba Stadium in Polokwane on Sunday. Kick-off is at 3.30pm.
First National Bank (FNB) has invested R100-million to fight ATM fraud over the next three years, it said in a statement on Tuesday. FNB chief executive Mike Arnold said the R100-million would ”beef up” security at more than 3Â 000 ATMs countrywide. ”Target our ATMs, and we will catch you and make you pay the price,” said Arnold.
Butch James, one of the Sharks’ favourite sons, has accepted an offer to see out his career at Bath in England. Not for want of trying, the Sharks’ generous offer had to be weighed against the reality of his future playing career. Two seasons ago, many would have laughed at the suggestion he would play again.
Mamadou Konté, a Senegalese music producer who became a global ambassador for African music, died at the age of 65, a member of his entourage announced. Konté died on June 20 at a hospital in Dakar from an undisclosed illness, Lamine Fall said.
The Cape Flats community would be outraged if Taliep Petersen’s widow, Najwa, and her alleged accomplices in Petersen’s murder were released on bail, the Wynberg Regional Court heard on Tuesday. Najwa and co-accused Abdoer Emjedi have launched a bail application before magistrate Robert Henney, acting Regional Court president in the Western Cape.
Incentives to encourage private-sector development of inner-city housing for lower-income residents are being considered by the City of Johannesburg. ”If we don’t provide affordable housing, the slumlords will do that,” said Dr Philip Harrison, executive director of development planning and urban management.
Beverly Sills, one of the most popular American opera singers of the 1960s and 1970s, died on July 2 of cancer, New York’s Metropolitan Opera announced. She was 78. ”The soprano died in her home in Manhattan on July 2 after a brief battle with inoperable lung cancer,” the Met said in a statement, quoting her manager, Edgar Vincent.