Phil Mickelson will unveil a secret weapon, a second driver designed specifically to offset the lengthened Augusta National Golf Club layout, when he opens the defence of his Masters crown on Thursday. ”It’s a driver that I’ve been working on specifically for the Masters,” Mickelson said.
An incident of racial abuse toward South Africa coach Paul Treu by South Africans at the Hong Kong Sevens is being investigated. SA Rugby confirmed on Tuesday media reports in South Africa that Treu was racially abused after his team lost to Samoa in the semifinals on Sunday.
A DNA sample taken from former Tour de France champion Jan Ullrich has been matched to blood bags seized in the Spanish doping scandal, German prosecutors said on Tuesday. Prosecutors said the Ullrich investigation would continue and did not comment on when or if he would be charged with anything.
South African adventurer and explorer Kingsley Holgate is set to depart from Cape Town later this month on a pan-African trip to hand out educational aids to remote schools, including self-contained libraries packaged in trunks. The trip, which will end in 2008, will take Holgate around the continent’s coastline and up some of its rivers.
A two-month strike by Johannesburg’s Metrobus drivers ended on Wednesday, the South African Municipal Workers’ Union said. Buses are expected to run again from Tuesday next week. The strike, called over sick leave and the dismissal of some employees, had been marked by violent incidents, including murder, vandalism and armed robbery.
A supercharged French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) on Tuesday smashed the world speed record for a train on rails, hurtling through the countryside into the history books at 574,8km/h. Powered by two souped-up locomotives carried on extra-large wheels, the TGV easily beat the previous record of 515,3km/h set in 1990.
More than 20 people were arrested for resisting evictions at Sehlalangenkani informal settlement in Musina early on Wednesday morning, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported. About 1 000 households were being evicted from their corrugated-iron shacks.
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Four Scotland Yard detectives and two forensic experts from Interpol have arrived in Jamaica to help investigate the killing of Pakistan’s World Cup cricket coach after police turned up no suspects or motives. The Scotland Yard detectives, including a senior murder investigator, were briefed on Tuesday and will be reviewing security-camera footage.
A man has been arrested after pirate South African CDs and DVDs worth about R4-million were found at a house in Cyrildene, Johannesburg police said on Wednesday. Captain Cheryl Engelbrecht said the man had been arrested near the house shortly after it was raided on Tuesday.
Engineers have dreamt of it for a quarter-century: linking Europe and Africa at the spot where the two very different worlds gaze at each other across a strip of choppy water. Now, after seemingly endless studies that turned up more than one nasty geological surprise, a project for a high-speed rail tunnel connecting the continents is gathering momentum.