Michael Hussey and tail-ender Stuart Clark frustrated South Africa after lunch on the second day of the second Castle LagerTest at Kingsmead on Saturday, with a last wicket partnership of 42. Shaun Pollock got rid of Shane Warne, who had played a cameo innings, putting on 36 runs off just 31 balls, and sharing a 56-run eighth-wicket partnership with Hussey.
The Canterbury Crusaders endured an anxious mid-race pitstop in rugby union’s Super 14 on the weekend, sitting idle as New South Wales and Wellington passed them and the ACT Brumbies closed in on them from behind. The Brumbies’ thrilling 28-26 win over the Waikato Chiefs on Saturday, inspired by a man-of-the-match performance from captain Stirling Mortlock, helped them consolidate fourth place and move within four points of the Crusaders.
Fighting has broken out between the army and local militia in Ituri in the north-east of the Democratic Republic of Congo, a military spokesperson said on Friday. ”Two stations held by our soldiers were attacked yesterday [Thursday] evening by a group of militia in Nyamavi and in Boguma,” said captain Charles Boeka, a spokesperson for the Central African country’s armed forces in Ituri.
Brian Lara’s battle against a form slump brightened an autumn gloom on the first day of the third cricket Test between New Zealand and the West Indies on Saturday. Only 27.2 overs were bowled on a day which started more than five hours late because of a saturated outfield and ended an hour early because of bad light, but the hour and 49 minutes that intervened belonged to Lara.
Bushbuckridge residents in Limpopo were living in fear after a pride of lions escaped, South African Broadcasting Corporation radio news reported on Friday. The report said the lions allegedly escaped from a private game reserve last week. The provincial department of environmental affairs has so far shot and killed five of the lions.
A former director of the United Nations Commission on HIV/Aids and Governance in Africa has painted a gloomy picture of efforts to bring the pandemic under control across the continent. ”There is absolutely nothing optimistic about HIV in Africa, 25 years after the virus was discovered,” said Nana Poku.
Researchers conducted a test flight in the Australian Outback on Saturday of a supersonic jet intended to travel at speeds of up to 8 000kph. The ,42-million project was launched by researchers at the University of Queensland in the remote community of Woomera, about 500km north of the South Australian state capital, Adelaide.
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The Public Protector, the Gender Commission and the South African Human Rights Commission have expressed concern over the conduct of Jacob Zuma supporters and media coverage of his rape trial. The three bodies — all set up under chapter nine of the Constitution and referring to themselves as the C9s — said they met on Friday to discuss events around the trial.
The people behind the hoax e-mails that sought to implicate influential figures in the African National Congress in a plot against Jacob Zuma would be charged ”very soon”, national police commissioner Jackie Selebi said on Saturday. Selebi’s statement comes after a decision by President Thabo Mbeki earlier this week, to fire the head of the National Intelligence Agency, Billy Masetlha.
Unions have rejected a revised Telkom offer on profit-sharing and service awards, the company said on Friday. The fresh negotiations had not been well received by the Communication Workers’ Union and Solidarity, said Telkom personnel chief Charlotte Mokoena.