Frenchman Raphael Jacquelin put himself in position for a wire-to-wire victory at the Asian Open on Saturday, carding a two-under-par 70 to take a one-stroke lead into the final round of the ,3-million event. The 32-year-old mixed four birdies with a couple of bogeys to finish the third round on 11-under, a shot ahead of Australian Scott Hend.
The North West department of education said on Saturday it would take serious action against teachers and principals who went on strike at Khutsong, near Carletonville, this week. The move follows their absence from a meeting convened by the North West provincial minister for education Johannes Tselapedi earlier this month.
The Waikato Chiefs cemented their position in the Super 14 top four and defended New Zealand’s honour with a 35-27 win over the Coastal Sharks in a high-octane rugby match on Saturday. Importantly for the Chiefs, they closed within three points of the third-placed Sharks as both sides came away with four-try bonus points.
The state of the African National Congress (ANC) in Gauteng as well as three key challenges facing the province — education, health and crime — will be discussed at the party’s provincial executive committee (PEC) meeting in Germiston on Saturday. PEC spokesperson Ignatius Jacobs said President Thabo Mbeki had already received its report.
Former Wallaby Ben Tune scored a try in his final match before his home crowd as Queensland netted only their second win of the Super 14 season with a 23-13 triumph over the Cheetahs in Brisbane on Saturday. First-half tries from James Horwill and Tune, who is retiring at the end of the season, gave the Reds their first win in ten matches.
Shells rocked Mogadishu through the night and into Saturday morning, killing more civilians and sending hundreds more fleeing the Somali capital in the biggest mass exodus since the 1991 fall of a dictator. ”There are a lot of deaths. I am carrying the bodies of two family members into my car now,” one distraught resident, who asked not to give his name, told Reuters.
The United Nations General Assembly has unveiled proposals that would send plans to expand the elite UN Security Council back to the drawing board and instead enlarge the elite body on a temporary basis. The Security Council, which can make mandatory decisions on war and peace, has five veto-bearing permanent members given seats when the UN was created in 1945.
Nigeria votes on Saturday in a presidential election beset by fears that abuses and violence will wreck a milestone in African democracy. Concern that Nigeria’s first handover from one civilian leader to another would be compromised was underlined only hours before the vote when militants attacked government buildings in Nigeria’s oil region with dynamite and assault rifles.
Wayne Rooney was sued on Friday by Everton manager David Moyes for libel over comments in his autobiography. Moyes is suing the England striker after he said in My Story So Far that the manager was overbearing, controlling and ultimately responsible for the player’s move from Everton to Manchester United in 2004.
New Zealand flanker Jerry Collins has been cleared of a serious neck injury after he was stretchered off during a Super 14 match in Christchurch on Friday.The 26-year-old Hurricanes forward, capped 38 times by the All Blacks, was taken off after a seemingly innocuous tackle during the 23-13 defeat by the Crusaders at Jade Stadium.