A Cape Town man has invited the media to watch him try to cross a busy city street during afternoon rush hour on Wednesday. Inok Zwane says he wants to highlight the dangers pedestrians face when they cross Buitengracht Street at the spot where two British tourists were killed when they were hit by a car last month.
”It is a dream come true,” is the way Louis de Jager (19) summed up his feelings after returning a final round of 73, one over par, giving him a 36-hole total of 145, one under par, one stroke clear, and the Sanlam South African Amateur Championship Stroke-Play trophy.
So much for an international race. A strong South African contingent set the tone in the opening stage of the Cape Argus Pick ‘n Pay Giro del Capo and were the dominant force in the prologue in Paarl on Tuesday evening. Quickest on the 5,5km stage was MTN Microsoft’s Daryl Impey (7:23,93).
Only 48 hours after being drawn to meet in the Absa Cup, Orlando Pirates and Bloemfontein Celtic face each other in a Premier Soccer League match-up of equal importance at Ellis Park on Wednesday night. The Pirates-Celtic rumble could reveal which of the teams are best equipped to challenge for second place in the log.
Liverpool ended FC Barcelona’s reign in the Champions League by knocking the defending champions out of the competition on Tuesday. Inter Milan and Lyon — the league champions of Italy and France — also were eliminated, while English champions Chelsea advanced.
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South Africa coach Mickey Arthur managed to find positives in his side’s shaky start against Ireland in a Cricket World Cup warm-up match. Arthur said South Africa’s 36-run win had no bearing on the tournament proper, which his side enter as the world’s top-ranked one-day team.
Former South African Reserve Bank deputy governor Gill Marcus is to take over as independent chairperson of banking group Absa, it was announced on Wednesday. She will succeed Dr Danie Cronje, who will step down as chairperson on July 1 but remain as a director of Absa Group as well as Absa Bank until the end of July.
Russia is to replace its military doctrine with a more hawkish version that boldly identifies Nato and the West as its greatest danger. In a statement posted on its website, Russia’s powerful security council said it no longer considered global terrorism as its biggest danger.
United States President George Bush suffered a fresh setback on Tuesday when a top White House aide, Lewis ”Scooter” Libby, was found guilty of perjury in relation to events leading up to the invasion of Iraq. Bush, whose polling rates are already the worst of his six years in office as a result of Iraq, watched the verdict on television in the Oval office.
The correctional services committee in Parliament on Tuesday rejected a report on the escape of Annanias Mathe from Pretoria’s C-Max prison. The report found that Mathe had probably escaped by squeezing himself through a tiny window and then walked over the roof of the maximum-security prison.