In a women’s fourth-round match held over from Sunday, former world number one Martina Hingis beat Israel’s Shahar Peer 6-3, 2-6, 6-3. The 12th seeded Swiss will now face Belgian second seed Kim Clijsters for a place in the semifinals on Tuesday.
By 2015 about 20% of Zambia’s children will be orphaned by HIV/Aids, the Department of Foreign Affairs warned on Monday. Current official estimates indicate that over 1,1-million Zambian children are orphans, mostly as a result of Aids.
The pebble-bed modular reactor offers an efficient and economical method of providing power to South Africa’s coastal towns and cities, Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin said on Monday. He noted global warming had seen nuclear power re-emerge internationally as an attractive, alternative form of energy generation.
A local Sydney council has decided on a new weapon in its bid to remove groups of youths from gathering in carparks and disrupting residents — the music of 1970s crooner Barry Manilow. Officials said that the youths were not causing property damage but were annoying residents by revving their engines and doing wheelies up and down the carpark.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) was on Monday arranging a meeting of security guards and employers in the hope of resolving the strike in which another two guards were killed over the weekend. The pay strike began on March 23 in a dispute over the 8% percent offered by employers.
A Johannesburg metro policeman whose fingertip was bitten off by an alleged drunken driver was discharged from hospital on Monday, police said. ”He is in a stable condition and back at home. He does have a shorter finger now as the tip of the finger was not able to be re-attached,” said metro police spokesperson Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.
Swedish tennis great Bjorn Borg, winner of five consecutive Wimbledon titles, rated himself among the world’s top four players ever. In an exclusive interview with Stockholm daily Expressen, Borg was asked to rate the world’s top five players ever. He came up with four names: Rod Laver, Pete Sampras, Roger Federer and himself, adding it was impossible to compare the quartet.
The JSE Limited’s listing attracted plenty of interest on Monday as the exchange now joins an elite club of listed bourses worldwide. Examples of bourses that have listed on their own exchanges include the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, Deutsche Borse, Nasdaq, Euronext and the Australian Stock Exchange.
Nominal house price growth of 12,3% year-on-year was recorded in May 2006 compared with a revised growth rate of 13,2% in April, according to the latest Absa house-price index. In real terms, year-on-year growth of 9,6% was recorded in April compared with a revised growth rate of 10,2% in March.
Former African National Congress Chief Whip Tony Yengeni might not have to report to jail just yet -– despite missing a deadline to seek leave to appeal against his four-year-prison sentence. He could apply for condonation of late filing of his application for leave to appeal, the Supreme Court of Appeal in Bloemfontein said on Monday.