Chris Martin and James Franklin ripped through the South African middle and lower order on the second morning of the second Castle Lager Test at the Wanderers on Saturday to dismiss the home side for 186. South Africa resumed on the overnight score of 133 for four, with Ashwell Prince and AB de Villiers on one run each.
Cameroonian Prime Minister Ephraim Inoni deplored on Friday the exploitation of thousands of child labourers in Cameroon and appealed for further international help in fighting the trade. Inoni was speaking in response to Thursday’s publication of a report on child labour by the International Labour Organisation.
Rescuers have found the bodies of three people in the wreckage of a South African-registered plane that crashed in Uganda last week, the World Food Programme said on Friday. On board the single-engined Cessna were the South African pilot, his wife, and the co-pilot, a dual French and Canadian citizen.
Russian media described United States Vice-President Dick Cheney’s harsh criticism of the Kremlin as the start of a new Cold War and a reprise of Winston Churchill’s famous ”Iron Curtain” speech, reflecting deepening distrust between Washington and Moscow.
Crusaders and All Blacks flyhalf Daniel Carter put on a clinically perfect performance, grabbing 15 points in guiding his side to a well deserved 35-17 win over the Bulls in their Vodacom Super 14 encounter at Loftus Versveld on Friday night.
The Kennedy family saga of tragedy and scandal took another turn on Friday when Patrick Kennedy, a Democratic congressman, said he was checking himself into a drug rehab programme after crashing his car into a police barricade. Kennedy said he had decided to seek treatment for addiction to prescription painkillers because he had no recollection of the accident.
The lady behind the reception desk at the Palmasola refinery smiled sweetly. ”We’re just carrying on here as normal,” she said. ”There’s nothing to report.” Horses ambled by on the dusty road outside. A few oil tankers stood idly, their drivers asleep. Only the presence of half-a-dozen soldiers, guns at their sides, revealed there was, indeed, something to report
Serbian police made fresh arrests and raided apartments on Friday in the hunt for genocide suspect Ratko Mladic as pressure mounted on Belgrade to bring one of the most-wanted men in Europe to justice. The police actions came two days after the European Union punished Serbia for failing to hand Mladic over to the United Nations war-crimes tribunal by the end of April.
Thanks largely to captain Graeme Smith, South Africa were in a strong position on 133-4, with a first innings lead of 14 runs when play ended early on the first day of the third and final Castle Lager Test against New Zealand at the Wanderers on Friday. Smith won the toss and sent New Zealand in to bat on a pitch that offered something for the bowlers.
A matric boy fired shots at fellow pupils aboard a school bus in Pinetown near Durban on Friday afternoon, wounding two classmates, KwaZulu-Natal police said. Spokesperson Inspector Rani John said the boy, from Pinetown Boys High School, was apparently playing with the gun when it went off.