Ten years and a fortnight ago, Minister of Health Nkosazana Zuma, dropped in on the 19th Congress of the ANC Youth League in Durban. Giving them a taste of the firecracker repartee that has set embassies ablaze from Maseru to Benoni and back to Maseru.
Phil Naledi has changed the lives of residents along a leafy street in the north-eastern Johannesburg suburb of Sydenham. He earns R900 a month for guarding the houses in the relatively affluent suburb, working 12-hour shifts. ”No one can make a life if they spend so much time working for this little money,” he explains.
A Saturday evening in 1991 and Sam Allardyce is tramping the streets of Limerick with a priest. They are searching for local businessmen willing to help pay the wages of Limerick City footballers. It is difficult finding the £100 a week that keeps Allardyce’s better players happy and it is a routine that manager Allardyce and the club chairperson will repeat through the season.
The JSE touched a record high in morning trade on Friday, helped by a softer rand and a rebound in commodity prices. It was nonetheless a fairly uneventful morning’s trade. By 11.56am, the all-share index was up 0,77% at 20 315,37 after earlier touching a lifetime high of 20 324,09.
Tickets for Juventus’s Champions League quarterfinal against Arsenal went on sale in Italy last Friday, and they were hardly flying out of the box office. Well, they never are nowadays. Juventus might be the defending Serie A champions and the self-styled most popular club in Italy backed by an estimated 11-million fans, but their crowds are an absolute abomination.
The late lamented Steve Strydom had no doubt there was a place for it, he just didn’t know what to call it. Video ref? Telly ref? Too familiar. So it became the television match official, or the TMO. Only those involved with the administration of the laws ever use either of those terms, of course.
Unless Brazil enforces existing conservation laws, it will lose more than 40% of its Amazon rainforest by 2050, say scientists. The predictions are among the first to emerge from a unique, large-scale study that is using computer models to simulate how factors such as logging, farming and climate could affect the future of the forest.
Australia has failed to make any significant progress over the past 30 years on improving the education of Aboriginal people, by far the country’s most disadvantaged group, according to a survey released on Friday. The survey of about 2 500 students in Western Australia state found that Aboriginal students started school at a disadvantage to non-Aboriginal children and the gap only widened during their years in the classroom.
The Sri Lankan cricket board on Friday gave ace off-spinner Muttiah Muralitharan a car for becoming the first bowler to claim 1Â 000 wickets in international cricket. A host of dignitaries, past and present Sri Lankan players and the entire Pakistan team attended a function organised by Sri Lanka Cricket on Thursday to honour the prolific bowler.
Police were keeping an eye on striking private security guards in the Johannesburg city centre on Friday. About 100 guards had gathered at Beyers Naude Square by 9am, police said. In other centres, striking security workers were also expected to march in support of their demands for better wages and working conditions.