Considering that the world has been wanting to see her without her clothes for more than 50 years, I reckon there should be few complaints at Sophia Loren now finally deciding, at close on 72, to pose for a picture in the Pirelli calendar. It remains unclear what precise state of déshabillement she is intending.
Factional politics in the Eastern Cape appear to have scuppered a multimillion-rand ecotourism project on the Wild Coast, and in the process chased a leading private tourism company out of South Africa. After years of haggling with politicians and bureaucrats, Wilderness Safaris says it has had enough.
Is it possible to be both an environmentalist and a super-rich petrolhead? The two worlds would seem to be mutually exclusive, but go to Laverstoke Park in Hampshire, southern England, owned by the South African-born 1979 Formula One world champion racing driver Jody Scheckter, and the answer is far from simple.
A former Zanu-PF provincial chairperson has spilled the beans on how the ruling party rigged the 2002 presidential election, which President Robert Mugabe won against most expectations. Dr Daniel Shumba is a retired army officer, former provincial chairperson of Zanu-PF and central committee member who was kicked out of the party last year.
The boardroom titans of Silicon Valley and Wall Street have met their match in a Norwegian-born finance lecturer from a hitherto obscure business school in America’s midwestern cornbelt. Erik Lie, a professor at the Henry B Tippie College of Business in Iowa City, is credited with triggering a scandal over share options that has so far snared more than 60 companies.
The decision by Sinopec of China to pay -billion for the right to explore for oil in deep water off Angola has shocked the West, which fears it could be left behind in a global scramble for resources. Similar oil prospects off the Angolan coast were selling for -million less than a decade ago.
Most bus operators transporting Gauteng’s pupils to public schools stayed away from work on Monday, protesting against the provincial education department’s non-payment of their claims. The bus operators are owed R14-million by the Gauteng education department, and education MEC Angie Motshekga has promised to partly pay it on Monday.
The boss of the online betting group BetonSports was detained at an airport early on Monday morning by the FBI after he touched down in the United States on his way from Britain to the company’s main operational base in Costa Rica. Investors feared that the move marked the start of a broader crackdown on internet gambling, which is judged to be illegal by the US justice department.
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Former deputy president Jacob Zuma on Sunday accused the media of using his recent rape trial and upcoming corruption trial to boost their circulation. ”You are a business but you want to believe that you are watchdogs,” said Zuma, speaking in his home district of Nkandla at festivities to thank locals for their support.
It was a soothing stroll in King’s Park for what was little more than a Manchester United reserve team as Orlando Pirates suffered a humbling and humiliating 4-0 Vodacom Challenge defeat in Durban on Saturday afternoon. From as early as the third minute when Norwegian international striker Ole Gunnar Solskjaer ended a three-year, injury-plagued scoring drought, with the first of two first-half goals for The Red Devils