Michael Vaughan resigned as England’s one-day captain with immediate effect on Monday. But Vaughan, in a statement issued by the England and Wales Cricket Board after close of play on the fourth day of the fourth Test against the West Indies, said he would continue as a one-day international cricketer.
Paul Collingwood’s hundred on his Durham home ground left England with the advantage in the fourth and final Test against the West Indies on Monday. At stumps on the fourth day, the West Indies — after Matthew Hoggard had reduced them to 15-2 — were 83-3 in their second innings, a deficit of 30 runs.
The prospect of playing in next year’s Africa Cup of Nations finals now looms as a fait accompli for South Africa — but not without Bafana Bafana coming back to earth with a rude bump in Sunday’s 1-1 qualifying draw against Congo in Pointe Noire.
Chris Harmse, Africa’s leading hammer thrower, recorded a good win at the Folksam Grand Prix in Karlskrona, Sweden, on Monday. His winning distance of 75,05m was his best of 2007 and better than the B qualifying distance for this year’s World Championships in Osaka.
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The JSE was a touch higher at noon on Tuesday as platinum and banking stocks held sway. At noon, the all-share index was up 0,15%. Resources lost 0,14%, the gold mining index was down 1,45% but the platinum mining index gained 2,08%. Industrials improved 0,25%, financials added 0,59% and banks climbed 1,38%.
Durban-born lock Greg Rawlinson returns to his former hometown charged with trying to give the All Blacks a winning start against South Africa in defence of their Tri-Nations rugby crown. Rawlinson received his second Test start — his first since New Zealand was last in South Africa 10 months ago — for this Saturday’s Test at King’s Park Stadium.
Somalia’s presidential spokesperson was shot twice at close range in the latest assassination attempt on government officials in the Horn of Africa nation, officials said on Tuesday. ”He was shot in the neck and near the jaw,” a security source told Reuters. ”I think the gunman was aiming for the head.”
Two people were arrested on Monday in connection with the murder of Cape theatre personality Taliep Petersen, said police spokesperson Superintendent Billy Jones. A 45-year-old woman was arrested at about 7.40pm at her house in Athlone and a 41-year-old man was arrested at 8.30pm in the Strandfontein area.
A small group of striking public servants were protesting outside the premises the Public Service Coordinating Bargaining Council on Tuesday. Government and labour negotiators were scheduled to meet at the council’s office in Centurion, south of Pretoria, later on Tuesday afternoon.