South Africa recalled fit-again winger Bryan Habana and Scotland made six changes to its run-on side for the second rugby Test on Saturday. South Africa won the first 36-16 last Saturday at Durban. Habana missed that match because of an ankle injury he aggravated in the Bulls’ Super 14 semifinal.
Saab AB of Sweden and South Africa’s Denel have agreed to create a new aerostructures company in South Africa which will compete on international markets for design, manufacturing, and assembly orders in the civil and defence aerostructures fields.
United States aviation giant Boeing scored a major victory when Singapore Airlines (SIA) ordered 20 of its new mid-size jets while production delays plague its European rival Airbus. SIA on Wednesday announced an order for 20 Boeing 787 aircraft worth $4,5-billion, just hours after publicly expressing displeasure over a postponement in the delivery of the much-vaunted Airbus A380 super jumbo jet.
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It’s another hot night in St Pauli. Even without World Cup fever raising temperatures and other things, most nights are sizzling in this party district of sex shops, nightclubs and prostitutes. Inside the packed restaurants are giant television screens showing every match. Tonight it’s Brazil. Or is it Germany?
Amicus, one of Britain’s biggest trade unions, is offering workers tips about how to take time off work to watch World Cup football without damaging their employment prospects. ”So you want to watch the World Cup, but you are meant to be at work when it’s on: can you play away or is the risk of permanent relegation from your job too high?” Amicus said on its website.
More than R13-million is still missing after a Benoni police safe containing airport heist money was broken into, the town’s magistrate’s court heard on Wednesday. Only R340 000 of the R14-million — in US dollars and rands — that had been stolen had been recovered so far, said state prosecutor Peter-John Smith.
An accident at Australia’s only nuclear reactor forced Prime Minister John Howard’s government onto the defensive on Thursday, with political opponents saying the incident highlighted the dangers of nuclear power. Small amounts of radioactive gases escaped from a ruptured pipe at the Lucas Heights facility on the outskirts of Sydney last Thursday.
Suspected Tamil Tiger rebels set off a powerful landmine in northern Sri Lanka on Thursday that killed at least 64 bus passengers and wounded another 45, a government minister said. The casualties were high as the bus was overcrowded with villagers travelling to the main town of Kebitigollewa to buy provisions.
Sri Lanka’s Tamil Tiger rebels denied involvement in Thursday’s bus bombing that killed at least 64 passengers and said the blast had been aimed at discrediting them. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam rejected government charges that they carried out the morning attack near Kebitigollewa town in the North-Central Province and in turn pointed a finger at the government.
If we were to ask young people who the youth leaders of today are, we would most likely come up with names such as African National Congress Youth League president Fikile Mbalula, Young Communist League national secretary Buti Manamela and … well, who else? They are certainly among the loudest voices we hear purporting to speak for the youth of the country, but where are the others?