Former double champion Ronnie O’Sullivan survived a second round scare before blasting Welshman Ryan Day out of the world championship with a late fightback on Monday. ”Rocket Ronnie”, who on Sunday scored the highest break of this year’s competition, was forced to briefly sweat against the Welshman who built on his 4-4 overnight draw.
Villarreal will need to rediscover its scoring touch against Arsenal on Tuesday to reach its first Champions League final. Trailing 1-0 on Kolo Toure’s goal from the first leg of the semifinals last week, Villarreal needs to win by two at its El Madrigal stadium to be sure of advancing to play FC Barcelona or AC Milan in the final.
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Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser might be placed in the National Prosecuting Authority’s witness protection programme once the trial ends, media reports said on Tuesday. Final argument by the defence and the state is to be presented in the Johannesburg High Court on Wednesday.
At least two of the three deadly blasts that ripped through the Egyptian tourist resort of Dahab were caused by suicide bombers, security sources said on Tuesday. At least 23 people were killed in the triple bombings on Monday, the third such attack to strike tourist resorts in the Sinai peninsula in 18 months, according to the interior ministry.
The World Bank, a leader in the global effort to control malaria, has been accused of deception and medical malpractice by a group of public health doctors for failing to carry out its funding promises and wrongly claiming its programmes have been successful at cutting the death toll from the disease.
Nepal’s embattled king on Monday offered to end 14 months of direct rule by reinstating the country’s Parliament ”as a way out of the continuing violence” and calling for a meeting with the country’s political leaders. Earlier on Monday, thousands of demonstrators had defied a shoot-on-sight curfew to march around the capital, Kathmandu.
<Intro blurb> Technology and the internet are sweeping away the barriers to entry which have made big media a protected cash cow. Now the cow is milked only in isolated locations like South Africa, writes Alec Hogg. <intro blurb ends>
The advertising industry is recognising that the media that best delivers — whether it’s African language media or not — is the media that’s going to be best supported, writes Harry Herber.
Since blogs have made their way into the general population’s consciousness, big media have been trying to work out how to get a slice of the action. Now Johnnic has its own citizen journalism website reporter.co.za. Matthew Buckland wonders if it will work.
Experience of low power FM technology in the United States could show the way for greater media diversity in South Africa. Sean Jacobs reports.