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Mohammad Hafeez gave an impressive all-round performance to guide Pakistan to an emphatic 77-run victory over Canada in a World Cup warm-up match on Tuesday. Middle-order batsman Hafeez top-scored with a solid 61 to help Pakistan post a challenging 273-8.
It was not the most romantic of honeymoons. Police said a groom is in jail, accused of trying to run over his new wife after a weekend wedding in Las Vegas. ”We have a wedding certificate for [March] 4th. They were still -honeymooning when he ran her over,” said Lieutenant Paul Jaroscak.
Ernest Gallo, who parlayed 900 and a wine recipe from a public library into the world’s largest winemaking empire, died on March 6 at his home in Modesto. He was 97. ”He passed away peacefully this afternoon surrounded by his family,” said Susan Hensley, vice-president of public relations for E&J Gallo Winery.
The bitter rivalry between Iran’s President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and the country’s leading elder statesman has erupted into a public struggle for control over economic policy. Hashemi Rafsanjani set the scene for a power struggle by telling Iranian journalists that Ahmadinejad’s "trial period is over".
The JSE remained modestly firmer in noon trade on Wednesday helped by a positive performance on United States markets overnight. Dealers remained unconvinced by the JSE’s gains, however, and believed more weakness was in store. By 11.52am, the all-share and all-share industrial indices added 0,4% and 0,88% respectively.
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi, also the head of Interpol, told delegates at the Interpol Symposium in Kempton Park that security forces from around the world will be deployed in South Africa during the 2010 Fifa World Cup, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Tuesday.
Pupils at an Eastern Cape school are doing a choreographed set of movements to Bok van Blerk’s controversial song De la Rey, the South African Broadcasting Corporation reported on Tuesday. A number of songs have been choreographed as part of the school’s 70th anniversary celebrations.
Budget constraints have forced the Western Cape provincial government to reduce the budget at Groote Schuur and Tygerberg hospitals, Business Day newspaper reported on Wednesday. The provincial health department has had to cut 90 beds at the hospitals in order to boost primary healthcare services in townships.
Hundreds of striking Autopax bus drivers were congregating at Johannesburg’s Park Station ahead of a march to Beyers Naude Square on Wednesday morning, their trade union said. The workers are protesting against a lack of transformation at Autopax, saying there are still no black people or women in top management.
Media and entertainment group Primedia reported a 421% leap in headline earnings per share from 14 cents to 73 cents per share for the six months ended December. It said this was due largely to a one-off black economic empowerment (BEE) charge of 49 cents per share expensed in the prior year.