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Graeme Smith hopes new surroundings in Grenada and a more positive approach will help South Africa bounce back from their embarrassing World Cup defeat to Bangladesh. ”We now have to win all of our three matches,” said the Proteas skipper after the shock 67-run humiliation at the hands of the Asian minnows on Saturday.
The lush vineyards, rare plant species and breathtaking scenery that have turned the Cape peninsula into a tourist magnet are in danger of withering away within decades if the doomsday predictions of a growing number of scientists — including a major new United Nations report released on Friday — come true.
A dentist was barred from his practice when he was found guilty on Thursday of urinating in a surgical sink and using sterilised dental instruments on his ears and nails. Alan Hutchinson, a 51-year-old father of three, was erased from the dental register after a medical tribunal found him to have acted in an inappropriate and unprofessional way.
A Croatian activist on Friday completed a 24-hour stay in a chicken cage in a central square in Zagreb to urge people not to eat eggs on Easter Sunday. But one man attempted to scramble the stunt. He showed up with a bag full of eggs and bombarded the caged man and other activists before police stopped him.
A deaf-and-dumb woman was raped, allegedly by two men, in Butterworth on Saturday morning, Eastern Cape police said. The 20-year-old grade-11 pupil from Gauteng, on holiday in the area, was accompanied to her family’s house following a party in the Bungeni informal settlement, said Captain Jackson Manatha.
The ashes of 11 people were scattered off a small island about 1,6km from downtown Hong Kong as a new burial-at-sea scheme went into operation in the space-scarce city, the government said on Sunday. Family members and religious ministers took to the high seas aboard a specially decked out boat for the burials on Saturday.
The son of Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula was charged with drinking and driving in March after a crash in Cape Town, the Sunday Times has reported. Siyabonga Nqakula, who was on holiday in Cape Town, allegedly hit a car when he drove a Toyota RunX into oncoming traffic in Selwyn Street.
South African Airways (SAA) could stop serving in-flight meals and cut back on cabin crew under a R2,7-billion cost-cutting proposal up for approval by its board next month, according to the Sunday Times. The airline is expected to post a loss of more than R652-million for 2006.
French rapper Xiao-Venom Blackara, better known in his quartier as XV, is a busy man this weekend. He has two pressing tasks: organising his first major concert and mobilising his neighbours and friends for the presidential elections in two weeks. That the two events will take place within a few days of each other is no coincidence.
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Bangladesh pulled off another shock victory at the 2007 Cricket World Cup on Saturday, beating world number-one team South Africa by 67 runs. Put in to bat by South Africa captain Graeme Smith, Bangladesh posted their best World Cup score to date of 251, with Mohammad Ashraful scoring 87.