The City of Cape Town will take new safety precautions after a shark attack on a 24-year-old lifeguard, a city councillor said on Tuesday. Councillor Marian Niewoudt, mayoral committee member for planning and environment, said the city had been working with Marine Coastal Management and other specialists since May on measures to curb shark attacks.
The Phonak cycling team will disband at the end of the year, team owner Andy Rihs announced Tuesday, ten days after team leader Floyd Landis was sacked because of the Tour de France doping scandal. Rihs said the Landis affair had been the deciding factor. ”As a passionate cyclist, I am bitterly disappointed that the sport of cycling apparently has become a synonym for doping,” he said.
A probe by the National Energy Regulator of South Africa into the recent power outages in the Western Cape has found electricity provider Eskom guilty of transgressing its licensing conditions as well as negligence. As a consequence, the regulator said it will impose punitive sanctions against Eskom.
A Pretoria judge has ruled that a top military spy — fired for reasons so classified not even he knows why — must get his job back, the Pretoria News reported on Tuesday. Colonel GJM Badenhorst was the head of covert information for West Africa in defence intelligence when he was fired in 2004.
The JSE was mostly flat by midday on Tuesday, with no fresh news to give the local market direction. Traders said with the United States market disappointing on Monday — it ended up just nine points after being ahead over 100 at one stage — the local market lacked impetus.
A Zimbabwe businessman who police say insulted President Robert Mugabe has been arrested under tough security laws that bar any remarks ”undermining the authority or insulting” the 82-year-old leader. Tichaona Muchabaiwa was arrested on the weekend on charges of uttering abusive words about Mugabe, the official Herald newspaper reported on Tuesday.
Rescuers battled heavy rains in south-west Ethiopia on Tuesday to save up to 20 000 people marooned by floods that killed at least 125 on the weekend as forecasters warned of more downpours. Poor weather grounded helicopter flights in the remote region, forcing authorities to deploy emergency personnel by boat to at least five inundated villages.
Italian international goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon has said he intends to stay with Juventus despite the club being relegated to the second division for involvement in match-fixing. Buffon told Turin’s La Stampa newspaper that he had no intention of following other top names who have joined other clubs.
Three Mexican fishermen who drifted more than 8 000km across the Pacific have been rescued near the Marshall Islands after at least three months at sea, an official said on Tuesday. The fishermen, who survived by catching seabirds and drinking rainwater, were picked up on August 9 by a Taiwanese fishing boat.
World oil prices slipped lower on Tuesday as a fragile truce between Israel and Lebanon entered its second day. New York’s main contract, light sweet crude for delivery in September, slid 18 cents to ,35 per barrel in electronic deals before the official opening of the United States market.