At the start of last season Norwich were 5-1 favourites to win the first division. They failed to adjust to their new surroundings and disappointed. ”The good thing is that we are not favourites, which is a tremendous relief,” says Delia Smith, who along with husband Michael Wynn-Jones has been a long-term director and benefactor of the club.
A full bench of the Pretoria High Court reserved judgement on Friday in an application by a Pretoria residents’ association to halt work on the Gautrain. It could take up to eight weeks before the three judges — headed by Judge President Bernard Ngoepe — give judgement in the case.
A training venue changed two hours prior to arrival, self-inflicted wounds in practice and an Australian journalist comparing a press conference to a Marx Brothers movie. Ho hum. Just another week in the life of the Springboks on tour. This week the circus rolls into Sydney, writes Andy Capostagno.
Bob Woolmer is a professional coach and is rarely drawn publicly on why and how he parted ways with South African cricket in 1999. He will express irritation, certainly, or the bemused frustration of an adult banished from the nursery by petulant toddlers, but he will not assassinate the characters who assassinated his career as Proteas coach, writes Tom Eaton.
A high court judgement on Friday clearing the way for the Southern Spears to play in next year’s Super 14 competition is a ”triumph for South African rugby”, the franchise’s MD, Tony McKeever, said. ”The victory for the Spears … is a defeat for SA Rugby, but it’s also a triumph for South African rugby,” McKeever said.
A Tuberculosis (TB) Crisis Plan to increase the number of people cured of the infection was launched on Friday by the Gauteng health department, the department said. ”In 2005 there were 18Â 275 new reported TB cases in Johannesburg alone,” said provincial health minister Brian Hlongwa in a statement.”
A small passenger plane crashed into a mountain and then tumbled into a valley in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), killing all 17 passengers and crew, officials said on Friday. The Antonov An-28 carrying 14 passengers and three Ukrainian crew members went down on Thursday afternoon.
Up a hill, inside the heavily guarded compound of a former Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) dictator, lies a graveyard of Belgian colonial-era statuary. A horse-mounted King Leopold II is stashed under a tree and explorer Henry Morton Stanley lies on his back in the dust, knocked off his pedestal.
The European Union said on Friday it is giving â,¬6-million in humanitarian aid to Eritrea and â,¬3-million in aid to Ethiopia to help those affected by drought and conflict. The money, which will be given to United Nations agencies, will help cover costs to provide urgent food and water supplies to people in Eritrea.
Spanish authorities intercepted a boat carrying 66 illegal African would-be immigrants near the Canary Islands on Friday. One of the migrants had died aboard the boat, which was at sea for 11 days before it was stopped by Spanish authorities off the island of Tenerife, authorities said.