South African Rugby Union (Saru) president Oregan Hoskins, deputy president Mike Stofile, vice-president Koos Basson and Presidents Council member Professor Jannie Ferreira are scheduled to set up a meeting with the Ministry of Sport and Recreation to discuss the way forward on the investigation of corporate governance charges against former Saru president Brian Van Rooyen.
A funeral was scheduled on Friday for a World War II airman whose body was found on a mountainside where his plane crashed more than six decades earlier. Mustonen’s body was found by climbers in October in the Sierra Nevada mountain range and it was recently identified through DNA tests at an air-force base in Hawaii.
The government plans to improve staff and management of tuberculosis (TB) services and to improve access to laboratory services where it is poor. This forms part of the TB crisis plan launched by Minister of Health Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Friday, World Tuberculosis Day, at Durban’s King George V hospital.
Sexual relations between the president and women Cabinet ministers, opposition leader Tony Leon being for the ”white man struggle”, and racist talks between Scorpions investigators are all part of the National Intelligence Agency’s hoax e-mail saga. On Thursday, the inspector general of intelligence declared the e-mails to be false.
The director of the Cape Town International Jazz Festival provides, Rashid Lombard, insight into the festival as a coveted performance date and significant contributor to tourism revenues.
MOVIE OF THE WEEK: Shaun de Waal reviews the Oscar nominated feature Capote.
Parliament has rebuffed suggestions that National Assembly Speaker Baleka Mbete’s R471 900 trip to attend the inauguration of Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf in Monrovia in January was a ”joyride across Africa”. The Mail & Guardian reported on the expensive trip on Friday.
The New South Wales (NSW) Waratahs smashed the Auckland Blues 43-9 to pick up a bonus point and move to the top of the Super 14 ladder here on Friday. The Waratahs leapt above the Canterbury Crusaders in their four-tries-to-nil thrashing of the inconsistent Blues to underline their claims to go one better than last year’s final loss to the Crusaders.
The Wellington Hurricanes overtook the Canterbury Crusaders as leaders of the Super 14 rugby competition on Friday by beating South Africa’s Sharks 23-17 to start off the seventh round. The Crusaders had a bye as the regular season reached its halfway point.
Talk Radio 702 has been granted an application for the amendment of its commercial licence to allow the station to migrate to FM frequencies 92.7 MHz in Johannesburg and 106 MHz in Pretoria. ”It is a historic announcement and the best news we’ve had in 702’s 25-year history,” station manager Pheladi Gwangwa said.