English clubs are threatening to scuttle England’s new rugby Test with the All Blacks in November because they say they’re not obliged to make their players available. England’s Rugby Football Union confirmed the November 5 Test on Monday along with live TV and ticket packages to help christen the new £100-million (-million) South Stand at Twickenham.
Blackouts hit parts of the Western Cape on Monday night as Eskom was unable to provide sufficient electricity to meet demand, the Cape Times reported. Its website said on Tuesday the blackouts came after Koeberg’s Unit Two generator was shut down to be refueled and for standard safety upgrades.
Africa saw a reduction in conflicts last year but gross human rights violations including killings and rape continued in volatile areas, Amnesty International said its annual report. ”The signing of several peace agreements in 2005 resulted in a decline in armed conflict across the region,” the London-based body’s 2006 International Report said.
Travelling across the Siberian steppe in a manner reserved for reclusive world leaders like North Korea’s Kim Jong-il, or sages like Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, the Brazilian novelist Paulo Coelho is getting a rapturous reception in his specially converted train.
United States President George Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair are to discuss in Washington this week a programme of troop withdrawals from Iraq that will be much faster and more ambitious than originally planned. Britain is to begin with a handover to Iraqi security forces in Muthanna province in July and the Americans will follow suit in Najaf, the Shia holy city.
The serial killer known as the Son of Sam, whose murder spree brought terror to 1970s New York, is suing his former lawyer under the very law that was introduced to stop him from profiting from his crimes. New York and many other US states introduced ”Son of Sam” laws in response to rumours that David Berkowitz was being offered vast sums of money to write a book.
Ensuring that clients get value for money from outdoor advertising has always been a headache. Now a key innovation in research technology could draw more adspend to outdoor. Graeme Addison looks at how innovators in the media are embracing "creative destruction" of the old by the new.
"For all his apparent loyalty to gold, Brett Kebble was a man of paper, a man dragged by his paper creations into a vortex of debt. How differently things might have turned out had he stuck to gold, a quiet life in the suburbs and a modicum of recognition." In this edited extract from <i>Brett Kebble: The Inside Story</i>, Barry Sergeant takes a look at the slain businessman’s shady empire.
Vusi Khanyile is one of the most unflappable defenders of an unorthodox empowerment strategy you are likely to encounter. The 55-year-old founding MD, now chairperson and CEO of Thebe Investments displays single-mindedness about the course his company has pursued, not just over the past five years, but over the course of about 14 years.
A former boss of one of the travel agencies implicated in the parliamentary travel voucher scam spent an hour-and-a-half behind bars on Monday for his lack of co-operation in a liquidation inquiry. David Phokeng, an ex-director of the now-liquidated Bathong Travel, was detained in the holding cells of the Bellville Magistrate’s Court at the request of the attorney acting for the liquidators, Bernhard Kurz.