A 21-year-old man was arrested on Saturday morning after he allegedly threatened a South African Airways (SAA) crew member with a syringe shortly after a plane took-off from the Cape Town International airport. Cape Town resident Yunus Ismail was sitting in his business class seat when he saw the man walking towards the cockpit with an air hostess.
Leaders of four of the largest opposition parties were united on Saturday in their condemnation of floor-crossing and calling for its abolition. Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon and his Inkatha Freedom Party and Freedom Front Plus counterparts Mangosuthu Buthelezi and Pieter Mulder, and African Christian Democratic Party MP Steve Swart, shared a stage in an anti-defection rally.
An uninspired Springboks outfit managed to scrape through to a 29-15 victory over Scotland to end up 2-0 in their two Test series played at the Eastern Province Rugby Union stadium in Port Elizabeth on Saturday. The home side offered little on the day as they came under some unrelenting pressure from a determined Scottish pack.
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Portugal qualified for the World Cup knock-out stages for the first time in 40 years on Saturday with a 2-0 win over Iran. Iran offered robust resistance for more than an hour before Brazilian-born Deco’s unstoppable opener. Cristiano Ronaldo settled the matter with a penalty 10 minutes from the end.
A South African Airways (SAA) flight was forced to return to Cape Town International Airport shortly after take-off on Saturday after a passenger threatened a crew member with a weapon, the company said. An SAA spokesperson said the passenger had been subdued and the plane had landed safely at the airport.
At 206kph and a little more than 45 stories tall, the Kingda Ka roller coaster at Six Flags Great Adventure gives riders quite a thrill.That is, when it’s working. As the amusement park this week unveiled another fast and furious roller coaster — a wooden one called El Toro — it’s also doing all it can to tackle a problem experts say is common with many high performance roller coasters: reliability
A Pretoria Correctional Services official was arrested following a high-speed chase during which traffic officers reported speeds topping 200kph, the KwaZulu-Natal Road Traffic Inspectorate (RTI) said on Saturday. RTI spokesperson Rajen Govender said the Correctional Services assistant director was initially flagged down by RTI officers after he went through a speed trap at 168kph on the N3 near Cedara, north of Pietermaritzburg.
Police in Chechnya killed rebel leader Abdul-Khalim Sadulayev during a special operation on Saturday, authorities said. Sadulayev was killed in his hometown of Argun, the press service of Moscow-backed Chechen Prime Minister Ramzan Kadyrov said. The city is about 15km east of the provincial capital, Grozny.
Spy bosses, rugby bosses, political bosses, diplomats and former deputy president Jacob Zuma were all on stage at the Absa Stadium in Durban in front of nearly 50Â 000 people for the Youth Day celebrations on Friday. Zuma’s message was one which stressed the unity of the ruling African National Congress and attacked ”analysts” who predicted the downfall of the party.
North Korea’s air force on Friday accused a United States reconnaissance plane of intruding into its territorial waters to spy on strategic targets. Its Air Force Command said that a US RC-135 plane being refuelled in the air had spied on strategic targets for hours after flying over its waters off the north-east coast.