For a company that claims to have moved ”beyond petroleum”, BP has managed to spill an awful lot of it on to the tundra in Alaska. After the news was leaked to journalists, it recently admitted to investors that it is facing criminal charges for allowing more than one million litres of crude oil to seep across one of the world’s most sensitive habitats.
The SABC will always be a contested terrain subjected to external pressure from sections of the public. These may be political bodies, commercial interests, sports bodies, cultural groups, trade unions et cetera. It would be surprising if this were not so, writes CE of the SABC, Dali Mpofu.
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Ukraine outclassed Saudi Arabia in their crunch Group H game in Hamburg on Monday, firmly setting their stuttering World Cup campaign back on track with a convincing 4-0 win. The World Cup debutants showed their attacking intent against a toothless Saudi team from the start.
Two explosions struck an Interior Ministry patrol and a market in the Baghdad area on Monday evening, killing at least seven people and wounding 16, police said. The first attack was a car bomb that struck a patrol in western Baghdad, killing four commandos and wounding six, Captain Jamil Hussein said.
The reaction of South African Airways (SAA) to Saturday’s attempted hijacking showed that the airline’s emergency policies and procedures were adequate to the task, SAA boss Khaya Ngqula said on Monday. ”All the rules were adhered to. Everybody was safe. Everybody reached their final destination,” Ngqula, the airline’s CEO, said.
The Springboks have been dealt a massive blow to their chances this year with the news that flanker Schalk Burger has been ruled out of rugby until January 2007. It is the latest in a string of injuries that are catching up with the Boks, and following the scrappy performance in beating the Scottish in Port Elizabeth at the weekend, coach Jake White must be a worried man.
A total of 419 primary schools in poor communities in the Western Cape have been given ”no-fee” status, the provincial education department announced on Monday. This would bring relief to parents of almost 150 000 learners, it said in a statement. An amount of R29-million had been allocated to fund the initiative in the current financial year.
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Switzerland kept their World Cup dream well and truly alive with a 2-0 win over troubled but lively debutants Togo on Monday. Goals in either half from Alexander Frei and Tranquillo Barnetta lifted Kobi Kuhn’s youngsters up to the top of Group G on four points, along with South Korea, who await them in their remaining first-round fixture on Friday.
An animal sanctuary is offering a safe haven to Lewis the cat, a Fairfield, Connecticut, feline whose vicious attacks on neighbours have landed his owner in court. Neighbours claim the gray-and-white cat has used his long claws and stealth to attack at least a half-dozen people.