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Pakistan and South African players were involved in what is believed to be a fire scare and had to file out of their Hilton hotel in Port of Spain early on Wednesday as they were having breakfast. Irish and Canadian players, however, were not among those who had to leave the premises, having already left for practice.
To celebrate the third birthday of Team Shosholoza, the South African entry in the America’s Cup yachting event, Archbishop Desmond Tutu announced on Wednesday he would be joining the team in the Spanish port city of Valencia in June.
The building of Cape Town’s 2010 Soccer World Cup stadium is back on track with a R185-million funding guarantee from banking group Investec. The city put the R2,9-billion project on hold last week. Mayor Helen Zille said on Wednesday that Investec had guaranteed the outstanding R185-million as payment on a post-2010 operating lease on the stadium, to be built at Green Point.
Press freedom improved in Mozambique in 2006 as compared with previous years, a new human rights report has found, Vista News said on Wednesday. The report, released on Wednesday in Maputo, said that while media institutions reported that freedom of speech and the press had improved, police continued to harass journalists in 2006.
Hundreds of striking Autopax bus drivers delivered a memorandum of their demands to the company’s management on Wednesday afternoon. The group, mainly members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers’ Union (Satawu), was gathered at Beyers Naude Square in central Johannesburg.
The Democratic Alliance (DA) has challenged the Department of Corrections to truly fulfil its mandate of openness and transparency by revealing former African National Congress chief whip Tony Yengeni’s parole conditions. The DA has officially requested Yengeni’s parole conditions from the department, DA spokesperson James Selfe said on Wednesday.
South Africa’s Anton Haig says winning the Johnnie Walker Classic last weekend has been a life-changing experience and he is now ready to step up and take his place among the elite. The top names of the game have been lining up to rave about the 20-year-old and he said he wants to make it back-to-back victories at the Singapore Masters this week.
Crime is an ”illness” that affects all and makes the population live in fear, businessman and former premier of Mpumalanga Mathews Phosa said on Wednesday. He was speaking at a symposium at the University of the Free State on the effect of serious crime and violent crime in South Africa.
Fresh from her efforts to secure the black vote at Sunday’s civil rights commemoration in Selma, Alabama, Hillary Clinton turns on Wednesday to the other voting block which she hopes to win over in her bid for the 2008 presidency: women.
Libyan security personnel routinely torture detainees, the United States State Department said in a report describing the country’s human rights situation as poor. The state also restricted civil liberties and freedoms of speech, press, assembly and association, the report said.