Former LeisureNet bosses Peter Gardener and Rod Mitchell were on Monday jailed for an effective eight and seven years respectively. ”You let society down very very badly,” said acting Judge Dirk Uijs as he handed down the sentences in the Cape High Court.
A pump failure at a water-treatment plant discharged tens of millions of litres of raw sewage into the estuary waters of the Scottish capital, Edinburgh, before it was repaired on Monday, officials said. The major leak over the weekend sparked health concerns among city residents who were warned to stay away from the Firth of Forth shoreline.
Simon Gungqa and dozens of other hopefuls stand at a busy intersection, their eyes watchful, appealing to motorists to hire them for a few hours’ casual labour in a country scarred by extreme unemployment, coupled with a crippling shortage of skills.
The gates of the Langlaagte testing station in Johannesburg were temporarily closed on Monday as about 1Â 500 people waited to register and license vehicles, metro police said. Johannesburg metro police spokesperson Wayne Minnaar said the gates were temporarily closed at 11am.
Outgoing Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon on Monday dismissed as ”distorted and inaccurate” media reports alleging a plot against Cape Town Mayor Helen Zille. Leon said he met on Monday morning with Zille and DA Western Cape leader Theuns Botha ”to discuss certain media reports …”.
Too often land for the poor is demarcated far from employment opportunities in apartheid fashion, President Thabo Mbeki told the South African Local Government Association conference in Midrand on Monday. ”Except for a few cases there is still a settlement pattern for poor black people to be on the outskirts of town, far from employment,” he said.
Manchester United winger Cristiano Ronaldo won two player-of-the-year awards voted for by his fellow Premier League players on Sunday. Ronaldo won the Professional Footballers’ Association Player of the Year and Young Player of the Year at a dinner in London. He’s the first man since Aston Villa striker Andy Gray in 1977 to win both awards in the same season.
Two historical events occurred in the Premier Soccer League (PSL) match between Santos and Kaizer Chiefs that Santos comfortably won 3-1 on Sunday. History was made when for the first time a woman, Deidre Mitchell, refereed a PSL game. The second event, of lesser importance, was the fact that ”the People’s Team” beat Chiefs for the first time since the 1998/99 season.
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Former New Zealand captain John Wright believes it would be a mistake to write off the Black Caps’ World Cup chances, despite their crushing defeat to Australia. Stephen Fleming’s men crashed to a 215-run defeat to the defending champions in their last Super Eights match on Friday.
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Heavyweight hitters Jacques Kallis and Matthew Hayden kicked off the mind games ahead of Australia and South Africa’s potentially explosive World Cup semifinal on Wednesday. Kallis is one of four South African survivors from the dramatic tied semifinal against Australia at the 1999 World Cup in Birmingham.