Firestone specialist Tiger Woods won his fourth consecutive PGA Tour title with a protracted playoff victory over fellow American Stewart Cink at the WGC-Bridgestone Invitational on Sunday. As late afternoon rain swept across the course, the world number one triumphed by sinking an eight-foot birdie putt at the fourth extra hole.
A former South African Cabinet minister has performed an extraordinary act of contrition — by washing the feet of an anti-apartheid activist he allegedly tried to have murdered. Presumably in imitation of Christ, who washed the feet of his guests after the Last Supper, Adriaan Vlok chose to perform his act of atonement on the Reverend Frank Chikane.
Air safety officials were on Sunday night investigating whether a plane that crashed in Kentucky, killing 49 people, took off from a runway that was too short. The commuter flight to Atlanta plunged back to earth less than a kilometre from Blue Grass airport just before dawn on Sunday. It is believed the majority of the victims burned to death.
More than 800 immigration officers at South African airports are to go on strike this week, media reports said on Monday. ”The strike on Friday will adversely affect all points of entry and international airports,” said Manie de Clercq of the Public Servants Association. ”It may be that only a few hundred people, but because of the importance of their jobs, it will have a significant effect.”
I really am beginning to despise capable little cars. Especially the cocky sort that get the job of commuting done effortlessly on a whiff of fuel because they seem to be having a laugh at the other seemingly pointless behemoths that refuse to move out of their garages without at least 10 litres of fuel in their tanks, writes Sukasha Singh.
There were denials all round this week that Anglo American was a potential takeover target. In a high-stakes poker game, that’s what you do: you pretend to fold before the game has really started. Anglo’s share price exploded in the past two months as rumours of a possible takeover started to circulate.
Group Portrait South Africa is released to coincide with an exhibition about family histories. The Rathebe family story is written by Dumisane Ntshangase and Derrick Thema. This is an extract from <i>Group Portrait South Africa</i>.
She’s young, she’s a babe and the booklet of her debut CD, <i>Got to Have It</i>, folds out into a sexy mini poster. She sings upbeat R&B pop. Jerusha Naidoo could easily have been just another clone from the overproduced Christina Aguilera mould, another young South African starlet desperately trying to make it on to the charts. But look closer, urges Riaan Wolmarans.
The more I read Rory Carroll’s piece ("Why I never quite fell for South Africa", August 18) the more I was reminded of a recent letter from the Herstigte Nasionale Party to Fifa, explaining to world football’s governing body why it had made a mistake by letting South Africa host the soccer World Cup in 2010, writes the <i>Mail & Guardian</i>’s Rapule Tabane.
Noise, vibration and harshness (NVH) are not things people usually think about when buying a car, but they can certainly become an annoyance after the purchase of a vehicle. NVH is exactly what the term implies and when manufacturers don’t pay attention to reducing it, their cars usually exhibit a great deal of road noise and other little annoyances that can cause a fair deal of discomfort.