Blackburn Rovers have signed South Africa striker Benni McCarthy from Porto, the Premier League club said on Friday. McCarthy, who joins for an undisclosed fee, has signed a four-year contract. ”We tried to sign Benni 12 months ago and have been tracking the situation since then,” Blackburn chairperson John Williams told the club’s website.
The retail price of all grades of petrol will increase by 31c per litre from Wednesday August 2, the Department of Minerals and Energy said on Friday. The wholesale price of diesel with a sulphur content of 0,05% and with a sulphur content of 0,005% will rise by 22c a litre and 25c a litre respectively on the same date.
The JSE was weaker in noon trade on Friday on profi-taking after Thursday’s strong run. Softer world markets contributed to the negativity. By 12.07pm, the all share index slipped 0,73%. Resources retreated 1,07%, the gold mining index tumbled 2,26% and the platinum mining index lost 1,63%.
Rock cliffs loom high above the wingtips of the two-seater plane as it banks sharply through the winding course of a narrow ravine in South Africa’s rugged Cederberg mountains. Pilot Johan Ferreira is in his element — he has found a way to combine his love for flying with a passion for nature by helping to track the elusive leopards that roam the mountain wilderness.
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.
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.
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.
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.”