A massive crater in Antarctica may have been caused by a meteor that wiped out more than 90% of the species on Earth 250-million years ago, an American geologist said on Wednesday. The 480km-wide crater lies hidden more than 1,5km beneath a sheet of ice and was discovered by scientists using satellite data.
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Many soccer-crazed North Africans fear they could miss out on televised World Cup action because of the high fees levied on broadcasts of the event. officials and public TV executives in North Africa have been scrambling to strike deals with a Saudi Arabia broadcaster which has the rights to air the games in the Arab world.
The Department of Labour on Wednesday said it was too early to say if Sasol would be charged with culpable homicide for the September 2004 blast at its Secunda plant. The report on the explosion was with Minister of Labour Membathisi Mdladlana and he still had to study it, his spokesperson Mokgadi Pela said.
The leader of Islamist fighters controlling Somali capital Mogadishu warned the United States it would pay dearly for any intervention in the country, a pan-Arab paper reported on Wednesday. Sheikh Sharif Ahmed, the chairperson of the Islamic courts, said the US would face a disaster similar to a botched 1993 intervention.
The Springboks will field one of their most-experienced sides when they line up against Scotland in the first of two rugby Test matches against the British side on Saturday. The team was named on Wednesday morning, while Scotland are expected to name their team later in the day.
Journalists for Zimbabwe’s state-owned media earn tiny salaries well below the poverty line, a situation that means they can be easily ”manipulated”. Some reporters for the public media are taking home a monthly salary of Zim-million (), a wage that is far below the poverty line of Zim-million, reported the Herald, itself a state-owned daily.
A member of a United States-backed secular alliance of warlords fighting for power in Somalia was kicked out of Kenya on Wednesday after police found him staying at a luxury hotel in Nairobi, authorities said. Abdul Rashid Hussein Shiry was taken to the airport for a flight back to neighbouring Somalia.
South Africa’s second largest platinum miner Impala Platinum on Wednesday announced that the company had agreed to sell off a 15% stake in the Marula Platinum mine for R316-million to Tubatse Platinum and the Marula Community Trust.
Participants from South Africa’s major gold-mining companies, trade unions and the government recently agreed to cooperate to chart a new course for the gold mining sector, which is in long-term decline, the Chamber of Mines said on Wednesday.
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