The United States is ready to isolate North Korea internationally over its nuclear weapons programme, the top US State Department envoy on the country said on Sunday. Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill said the North Koreans ”seem to like to isolate themselves”.
An earthquake measuring 5,5 on the Richter scale killed at least three children and left more than a thousand people without shelter in the south of Tajikistan, the emergencies ministry said on Sunday. The earthquake, whose epicentre was in northern Afghanistan about 180km south of the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, hit at 3.57pm local time on Saturday.
The grounded Safmarine Agulhas is an unsalvageable wreck and the rest of its cargo cannot be removed, the National Port Authority (NPA) said on Saturday. ”It’s now referred to as a wreck … It can’t be re-floated,” said NPA East London spokesperson Terry Taylor.
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Pietermaritzburg hotels on Sunday reported high occupancy rates, considered ”unusual” for this time of year. Many of the hotels were filled with police officers, journalists and Zuma supporters ahead of his upcoming corruption trial on Monday. Pietermaritzburg tourism director Melanie Veness said: ”There is very little [accommodation] available. It’s very unusual for this time of year.”
American Justin Gatlin, the world and Olympic 100m champion and co-holder of the 100m world record, revealed on Saturday that he had tested positive for ”testosterone or its precursors” in April. ”I have been informed by the United States Anti-Doping Agency that … I tested positive for ‘testosterone or its precursors’,” Gatlin said in a statement.
First of all I would like, from the bottom of my heart, to greet Africa — all the African peoples, from the north, from the Mediterranean Sea, through these wide central lands, from the east, from the west and from the south of Africa. I want to pay tribute to Mother Africa.
Getting through a month of enforced abstinence from one’s favourite addiction, alcoholic or otherwise, is not easy. In my case, I’ve just spent four weeks in Addis Ababa, mainly teaching a course at the university, during which time I was forced to do without my daily dose of South African media, and specifically without my weekly Mail & Guardian.
Three people were taken to hospital following a huge toxic spill from a leaking tanker on the N1 north of Pretoria, Tshwane emergency services said on Saturday night. Spokesperson Johan Pieterse said 21Â 000 litres of nitric acid spilled from a tanker truck that had stopped at the Panorama Petroport and tollgate on the N1.
The ability to intercept passes and create try scoring chances from turnovers enabled the Free State Cheetahs to take four valuable points from their exciting top-of-the-table Absa Currie Cup rugby encounter as they toppled the Sharks 31-19 in Durban on Saturday evening.
Time Warner, the global media leader, on Wednesday will take the wraps off plans for ailing internet unit AOL, which may include shedding subscriber-access fees seen as blocking advertising revenue. Since 2005 Time Warner has openly pursued a strategy of developing free-access programs on AOL — such as TV series, news and music — to compete with Yahoo! and Google.