Twenty-five years after the infamous Trevor Chappell under-arm bowling affair sporting relations between Australia and New Zealand nosedived again on Friday. This time it was the normally sedate world of badminton which hosted the latest trans-Tasman spat when a Commonwealth Games men’s doubles match ended in acrimony.
Anita Roddick, the campaigning businesswoman behind The Body Shop, made £130million on March 17 when she agreed to sell the high-street cosmetics chain to French beauty group L’Oreal. The sale was a surprising turn for Roddick, who founded The Body Shop from a single store in Brighton on the English south coast in 1976.
They are the gurus of globetrotting, the men who built publishing empires from their adventures and wrote guidebooks encouraging millions to venture further afield than ever before. Now the founders of the Rough Guides and Lonely Planet books, are uniting to urge tourists to fly less.
Those charged with designing new cruise ships and skyscrapers share a common bond. Both will have a similar command ringing in their ears after their first meeting with the client: ”It must be the biggest the world has ever seen.” This year will see the maiden voyage of the cruise industry’s latest record-breaker.
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The protracted Cape High Court trial-within-a-trial in the Baby Jordan murder case ended on Thursday, with Judge Basheer Wagley ruling that statements by three of the five accused are admissible. The hearing was launched by defence counsel Charles Simon.
Parliament could be more vigorous in exercising its powers of oversight of the country’s monetary affairs, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday.
”The Constitution does not expect a lapdog Parliament, so I appeal that you engage us,” he said in debate on the Budget. Manuel asked whether Parliament was adequately exercising the powers afforded to it..
Rheinhold Rau, a German-born taxidermist who regarded it as his moral duty to reverse the extinction of the quagga, a zebra-like animal, has died. He was 73. The South African Museum, where Rau worked for more than four decades and well into his retirement, confirmed his February 11 death but gave no cause.
Political parties vying for control of the Democratic Alliance-led city of Cape Town on Thursday continued the tit-for-tat exchanges that have characterised a bitter tripartite power struggle. The Independent Democrats on Thursday rubbished claims that ID leader Patricia de Lille had vetoed working with the DA-led coalition city government.