With street protests banned and a once-vibrant press muzzled, dissident theatre productions are becoming an increasingly popular outlet to vent frustration towards Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe. Cont Mhlanga’s satire The Good President has been playing before packed audiences — but police are not impressed.
Australian rugby authorities are resigned to hosting a below-strength Springbok line-up next month despite complaining of a betrayal on the part of their South African counterparts. Australian Rugby Union chairperson Peter McGrath sent a letter of complaint to the South African Rugby Union.
Police in Mitchells Plain, Cape Town, have unveiled a strategy to take the battle against crime to drug dealers and gangs, media reports said on Wednesday. The strategy includes the deployment of 54 more reservists and assigning five more flying-squad vehicles to patrol routes into Mitchells Plain.
Having lost, in quick succession, coach Muhsin Ertugral to Kaizer Chiefs and assistant coach Ian Gorowa to Moroka Swallows, Absa Cup holders Ajax Cape Town on Tuesday turned to their youth coach, Craig Rosslee, to head their technical operation for the coming Premier Soccer League season.
Three-time champion Venus Williams came back from a break down in the last two sets to avoid a major first-round surprise on Tuesday against a Russian teenager playing her first match at Wimbledon. In men’s play, second-seeded Rafael Nadal and former champion Lleyton Hewitt were among the winners.
South Africa captain Jacques Kallis’s unbeaten 91 saw his side to a four-wicket win over India at Stormont in Belfast on Tuesday in the first of three one-day internationals. Kallis’s well-paced innings saw South Africa overhaul an India total of 242 for eight built around a third-wicket stand of 158 between Sachin Tendulkar and Rahul Dravid.
Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, where about 7 000 British troops are based, is on the verge of becoming the world’s biggest drugs supplier, cultivating more opium than entire countries such as Burma, Morocco or even Colombia, the United Nations warned on Tuesday.
The CIA conspired with a Chicago gangster described as ”the chieftain of the Cosa Nostra and the successor to Al Capone” in a bungled 1960 attempt to assassinate Fidel Castro, the leader of Cuba’s communist revolution, according to classified documents published by the agency on Tuesday.
The corporate sector is the primary creator of jobs and work opportunities, said businessman Tokyo Sexwale in a speech released on Tuesday. ”The extent to which this sector is treated or maltreated, welcomed or unwelcomed, by far determines its continued appetite [for] and commitment to capital expansion and job creation,” he said.
North West province has set aside R14-million for laboratory tests to diagnose tuberculosis (TB) and get patients on treatment as soon as possible, the provincial health department said on Tuesday. A departmental spokesperson said every month at least 2Â 100 new TB patients start treatment in the province.