Australia’s much-maligned front row is determined to prove itself against the Springboks in this week’s Tri-Nations clash after being humbled in New Zealand, prop Greg Holmes said on Tuesday. South Africa coach Jake White has already revealed he will be targeting the inexperienced Australian scrum in Brisbane on the weekend.
At least eight people were killed and several injured following renewed clashes between security forces and outlawed groups in the south-eastern Nigerian market town of Onitsha, residents said on Tuesday. Fighting erupted on Monday when a joint patrol team of police and army attempted to dislodge the groups from the town.
Botswana’s longest-running court case, in which its San Bushmen are fighting for rights to ancestral land, will hear final submissions next month as the trial nears completion, lawyers said on Tuesday. State lawyer Dittah Molodi said that ”final oral submissions before the court are expected to start on August 28”.
Set against a rugged landscape dotted with towering villages, Frankish castles, Byzantine churches and beautiful beaches, Mani, on the southern Peloponnese coast of Greece, can literally be described as being at the edge of the world. Visitors will be left in awe of its contrasting landscapes.
Tenerife is the largest of the seven Canary Islands, with something for everyone. There are sunny beaches and modern vacation centres like Playa de Las Americas in the south-west, while the fertile north with frequent clouds offers the Otravando Valley, the tourist-friendly town of Puerto de la Cruz and the capital, Santa Cruz.
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Italy’s Marco Materazzi called Zinedine Zidane a ”son of a terrorist whore” just before the France captain gave him a brutal headbutt in the World Cup final, Britain’s top forensic lip-reader says. The Times newspaper hired Jessica Rees, whose skill has seen her summoned as an expert witness at criminal trials, to study a tape of Sunday’s match.
The JSE was just marginally weaker before noon on Tuesday after a directionless morning characterised by light volumes. A marginally weaker rand and a rebound in commodity prices failed to benefit resources stocks. By 11.55am, the all-share and all-share industrial indices both dipped 0,1%.
South Africa’s National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) has ruled out reopening the case of the 1993 assassination of then South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani. NPA spokesperson Makhosini Nkosi said it had received a request from the Young Communist League that the case relating to Martin Thembisile "Chris" Hani be reopened.
African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma’s family reacted with shock on Tuesday to reports that his first wife’s name has been used in a 419 scam e-mail. Nephew Michael Zuma, in Nkandla, said: ”What? She doesn’t even have a computer. She has a phone, but she can’t even send SMSs.”
A bitter battle to control Sri Lanka’s cricket establishment has wrecked the schedule for next month’s limited-overs tri-series against India and South Africa. The dispute, generated by upcoming elections at Sri Lanka Cricket (SLC), revolves around holding the first four matches of the August 14-29 tri-series in the central town of Dambulla.