The Sudanese foreign ministry will ask the Chadian ambassador to explain his government’s decision to severe diplomatic relations with Khartoum, a spokesperson said on Friday. Earlier on Friday, Chadian President Idriss Déby said in N’djamena his country was breaking ties with neighbouring Sudan, which he has accused of backing a rebel bid to topple him.
Britons, Europe’s biggest chocoholics, were set to have a cracking good time over Easter by splashing out on about 80-million Easter eggs, the British Retail Consortium (BRC) said on Good Friday. A total of £520-million (-million) was to be spent on chocolate over the four-day weekend as the BRC forecast that Britons were set to blow £2,8-billion in total on food and drink.
Iran said on Friday it could defeat any American military action over its controversial nuclear drive, in one of the Islamic regime’s boldest challenges yet to the United States. ”You can start a war but it won’t be you who finishes it,” said General Yahya Rahim Safavi, the head of the Revolutionary Guards and among the regime’s most powerful figures.
The 1970s gave us the six-million-dollar man. Thirty years and quite a bit of inflation later we have the six-billion-dollar human: not a physical cyborg as such, instead an umbrella term for the latest developments in the growing field of technology for human enhancement.
”Darling, please don’t send me any more pasta al forno. You can send me all the cheese you want.” These words of domesticity, written between a husband and wife, betray little of the couple’s extraordinary story. The identity of the author was revealed this week as Bernardo Provenzano — the mafia boss of bosses, a man police had been hunting for 43 years.
As far as the South African schools’ curriculum is concerned, life evolved, it was not designed. The topics it covers include the Africa-cradle-of-mankind thesis, which reflects a widespread scientific consensus, and which is also likely to enjoy popular appeal in Africa, and population genetics.
Recently two new Satrix exchange-traded funds (ETFs) listed on the JSE, giving investors further low-cost opportunities to invest in South African companies. This brings to five the number of Satrix funds available to investors and the number of ETFs listed on the JSE to nine.
So it’s farewell to the Vuyo Mbuli Show on SAfm. I was about to start tearing the roof off my car at the sheer numbing mediocrity of Vuyo’s show when the integrity of my personal means of transport was saved by the news that Vuyo would shortly be off the air, and replaced by Xolani Gwala.
Commonwealth Games triple gold medallist Roland Schoeman will not compete at the SA Aquatic Championships in Durban next week, Swimming South Africa confirmed on Thursday. Schoeman, who pulled out of the World Short Course Championships in Shanghai last week due to illness, has still not recovered sufficient fitness to take part in the national championships.
When a PSL official was questioned at the time how the draw for this weekend’s Absa Cup quarterfinals had fallen neatly into place to pave the way for the first truly high-profile final since the competition’s inception, the bland reply suggested it was due to CEO Trevor Phillips’ ”magic hand”.