Israel battered Lebanon on Friday, killing 11 people as waves of air raids struck villages in the hills behind the southern port of Tyre and hundreds of artillery rounds crashed across the border.
A six-year-old boy in The Netherlands on Thursday discovered that driving a car is not as easy as it looks, the Dutch ANP news agency reported on Thursday. The boy sneaked out with his father’s car keys and went for a spin. However, driving turned out to be an acquired skill and the wild ride ended after he drove through several gardens to finally crash into the front of a house.
Coaching at international level used to be relatively straightforward. You cut your teeth in club rugby, moved up to provincial level, developed your style and, when the big phone call arrived, used that style with the national side. In South Africa there used to be a codicil: you couldn’t coach the Springboks unless you had been one yourself.
Cristiano Ronaldo’s words to Wayne Rooney before the Portugal versus England World Cup quarterfinal were not ”I’m going to get you sent off”, but, as Rooney reveals in his new biography: ”Where’s Quinton Fortune going?” That’s how much the Manchester United players care about the South African who was never given quite enough starts at Old Trafford. And now we know. Bolton Wanderers.
Eight pupils from Westonaria High School on Johannesburg’s West Rand are to appear in court on Friday after a brawl between black and white pupils, media reports said on Friday. They are facing charges of public violence and assault in the Westonaria Magistrate’s Court.
KwaZulu-Natal’s education department on Friday repeated its warning to schools that had not submitted audited financial statements that they will lose their Section 21 status. Departmental spokesperson Christi Naude said: ”Parents need to know that even if a school loses its section 21 status, it does not mean that those schools that are no-fee schools will lose their no-fee status.”
Stephen Harmison’s pace proved too much for Pakistan as England gained a first-innings lead following a dramatic collapse by the tourists on the opening day of the second Test at Old Trafford on Thursday. Harmison took 6-19 in just 13 overs as Pakistan were bundled out for 119, only three batsmen making double figures.
When Brazil played Ghana in the World Cup last month, the South Americans’ coach, Carlos Alberto Parreira, described the Africans as no longer a team of football ”innocents”. He should know: he was one of the men responsible for modernising their game.
On Monday Parliament will pass into law the 2010 Fifa World Cup Special Measures Bill. The proposed new Act will have a bearing on numerous issues, particularly the spaces traditionally used by informal traders immediately outside the stadiums. There has been concern that the economic guarantees will, in essence, preclude hawkers from directly benefiting from the spin-offs.
More than 3 000 villagers have fled the area around a volcano in eastern Indonesia after it started blasting out hot gas and lava, officials said on Friday. Saut Simatupang, a senior vulcanologist, said the alert status for Mount Karangetan on Siau island was now at maximum.