Opposition parties have vented their anger at the Correctional Services department’s scathing attack on the National Assembly’s correctional services committee. The committee this week rejected the department’s report on Annanias Mathe’s escape from Pretoria’s C-Max prison.
The Italian owners of two granite firms are suing South Africa for â,¬266-million (about R2,5-billion), arguing that laws which force firms to sell stakes to black investors violated international investment treaties, the investors’ lawyer said on Friday. The action marks the first legal action alleging that South Africa’s mining charter amounts to expropriation.
The flowing, elegant lines and even the name of the Russo-Baltique Impression appearing at the Geneva Motor Show on Thursday for the first time marked a distinct shift in gear for Russia’s ramshackle old motor industry. The grandiose new coupé unashamedly harks back to the elitist luxury of the tsars.
The Otago Highlanders ran in four tries to two on Friday to beat the Queensland Reds 33-17 and ensure they remained marooned at the bottom of the Super14 rugby competition. After a rough tour to South Africa early in the series, the Highlanders made the most of the home advantage at Carisbrook’s ”House of Pain”.
The JSE was slightly weaker in noon trade on Friday, taking its cue from its European counterparts. With key United States non-farm payrolls and trade data both due out at 3.30pm, caution was the order of the day. By 12.01pm, the all-share index shed 0,19%. Industrials dipped 0,1%, while the financial and banks indices fell 0,53% and 1,2% respectively.
Benni McCarthy, the boy from the backstreets of Cape Town, is the toast of English football this week after two dramatic interventions changed the face of the game. Expect more of the same on Sunday at Ewood Park, where he should fire Blackburn Rovers into the FA Cup semifinals.
It has been 12 years since my Six Nations career began against England at Parc des Princes, writes Thomas Castaignède. And, despite missing out on this weekend’s match, I’m hoping my name will be in the squad of 22 at least one more time against the rosbifs (roast beefs).
Local football’s worst-kept secret finally came into the open with the appointment this week of Kostadin Papic as Kaizer Chiefs coach to replace Ernst Middendorp. In typical style, the club and the coach denied their public meetings while incumbent coach Middendorp was going through his worst period at Chiefs.
Banyana Banyana, the South African women’s national football team, will have two goals when they trot on to the pitch for their match against Equatorial Guinea on Sunday. They will be hoping to nullify the heartbreaking 2-1 loss to the West Africans in Malabo, Equatorial Guinea, during the first leg last month. And they will attempt to gain the respect they believe they deserve.
Greek Cypriots razed to the ground a symbol of Cyprus’s decades-old division running through the heart of the capital Nicosia and challenged Turkey to respond by withdrawing its troops from the area. Demolition work on a concrete barrier in Nicosia’s Ledra Street ceased by dawn on Friday, exposing a corridor of crumbling buildings untouched for decades.