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.
The lush vines of California are among the most iconic images of America, with the perfect climate between the baked Central Valley and the cool Pacific coast enabling the area take its place as one of the great success stories of the boom in new-world wines. The industry is worth billions of dollars a year and has starred in its own movie, the wine-buff-midlife-crisis road-trip hit Sideways.
Monty Panesar and Stephen Harmison again proved a lethal combination for Pakistan as England won the second Test by an innings and 120 runs with more than two days to spare. The duo, who took 19 out the 20 wickets to fall (the other was a run-out), dismissed Pakistan for 222 in their second innings after England had piled up 461-9 declared.
Western Province overturned a 22-7 deficit to run out 30-28 winners over the Lions in a scrappy Currie Cup match at Newlands on Saturday. The teams were deadlocked 25-all after an eventful first half that featured seven tries. Mistakes were made and there was some awful defence, but also some good rugby.
South Africans must defeat the tendency towards worshipping personal wealth, President Thabo Mbeki said on Saturday evening. He was addressing the fourth Nelson Mandela annual lecture at Wits University in Johannesburg. Personal wealth is becoming the distinguishing feature of the new citizen of the new South Africa, he said.
Millions in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) headed to the polls on Sunday in historic elections meant to craft a new stability for the Central African state after four decades of misrule and a devastating war that drew in the entire region. Polling stations opened at 6am local time across the DRC for separate presidential and parliamentary votes.
United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will press Israel and Lebanon on Sunday to strike a deal on an international force to end a 19-day-old war, after Hezbollah threatened to strike deeper into Israel. Rice said she hoped for agreement on terms for a ceasefire to be outlined in a United Nations resolution that could be tabled as early as Tuesday.
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African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma made a surprise guest appearance at the 85th anniversary fund-raising dinner of the South African Communist Party (SACP) in Durban on Saturday night. Zuma said: ”South Africa is an amazing country where communists and capitalists can sit [at] the same table.”