<b>ANIMATION OF THE WEEK:</b> <i>Cars</i> is a well-rounded and predictable tale filled with excitement at the racetracks, writes Tumi Makgetla.
Mary Watson’s short story, <i>Jungfrau</i> (Young Woman) has won her the Caine Prize for African writing.
Pakistan paid a high price for a series of dropped catches as unbeaten hundreds from Alastair Cook and Paul Collingwood put England in a strong position on the first day of the first Test at Lord’s on Thursday. At stumps England were 309-3 after Cook, dropped three times, and Collingwood, missed once, both scored their second Test centuries.
‘Ello, ‘ello, ‘ello, what’s all this, then? Police are telling booze-fuelled British women to wear nice knickers and wax their bodies, newspapers reported on Thursday. The latest attempt by the police to get hip with the kids is aimed at hammering home a responsible drinking message to irresponsible young women.
A half-smoked cigar enjoyed by Sir Winston Churchill, Britain’s war-time prime minister, was sold at auction on Wednesday for £365 (about R4 800). Churchill had been puffing on the cigar when he arrived for a meeting in Blackpool, north-west England, on October 14 1950.
The remains of the celebrated 18th-century Italian castrato Farinelli have been exhumed to find more about his peculiar powers as a singer, a university professor said on Thursday. The remains were removed from a cemetery in the northern city of Bologna where the singer died in 1782.
Local government needs to realise that it cannot handle electricity supply on its own, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said on Friday. ”Honestly, I have a lot more confidence in Eskom than in all of the municipalities put together,” Erwin said at a briefing of Business Unity South Africa in Johannesburg.
A Cape High Court judge ruled on Friday that the Southern Spears do not have to put down almost a quarter of a million rand as security for costs ahead of next week’s court battle against SA Rugby. ”I’m absolutely thrilled and delighted,” said Spears chief executive Tony McKiever afterwards.
There is a good chance that the Reserve Bank may increase interest rates further this year, an economist said on Friday. ”The bottom line is that interest rates will have to rise,” ABSA chief economist Christo Luus said. Luus was confident that borrowers will have to face hikes of only about 2% this cycle.
Just a week after the statue of Chief Tshwane was unveiled in front of the city hall in Pretoria, vandals have painted it in the colours of the old South African flag. Tshwane metro police spokesperson Superintendent Alta Fourie said the statue, which was found painted on Friday morning, must have been vandalised on Thursday night.