South African javelin thrower Sunette Viljoen got the country’s track and field campaign off to a dream start by winning her event while Natalie du Toit added a second gold medal to her tally at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. Competing in front of over 67 000 predominantly Australian athletics fans, Viljoen showed big match temperament in producing a second competition throw of 60,72m.
After wriggling its way through every possible excuse for inaction, the United Kingdom’s Office of Fair Trading (OFT) launched an inquiry into the behaviour of the big grocery chains. It’s about time. But alongside it we need another one: into whether the OFT has itself been taken over by the superstores.
Like Cinderella transformed from a princess at the stroke of midnight, Moroka Swallows shed their poise and glitter in the second half of the Premier League against Kaizer Chiefs at FNB Stadium on Saturday night –yet ultimately deserved a share of the spoils from a tense, changeable 1-1 draw
Steamy footage of KwaZulu-Natal Tourism MEC Narend Singh with a married Durban socialite was not in the public interest, Singh said in a statement on Sunday. ”I am most concerned by the recent publications in the media involving myself which relates to a personal and private matter, and in respect of which I have not waived any of my rights to privacy.
The Democratic Alliance on Sunday demanded swift action against ministers and their deputies who failed to disclose their business interests. ”Parliament must act swiftly against all those Members of Parliament found to be in breach of the parliamentary code of conduct,” DA chief whip Douglas Gibson said. The list includes 14 Cabinet ministers and deputies.
The Stormers’ horror run at Newlands continued as Springbok flyhalf Meyer Bosman’s imperious boot helped the Cheetahs to a 31-25 victory. Rassie Erasmus’s side led 18-3 at half-time and there was almost an interesting twist in the tale when the Stormers went 25-21 up with an impressive second-half flurry.
The South African captain Graeme Smith said on Saturday that he did not expect any major changes to the South African side after their seven-wicket defeat by Australia on the third day of the first Castle Lager Test at Newlands. ”Obviously to have Polly [Shaun Pollock] back would be a huge boost for us,” he said. ”He would have been deadly on this wicket.”
As in their previous appearance at Stellenbosch, the Cape Cobras raced to victory well before the tea break on the third day of the SuperSport Series match against the Eagles. Although there was some resistance from the visitors, the home seamers dominated proceedings and they ensured that the Eagles left only the most nominal of targets.
Spanish surgeons using cranes and ropes removed a 60kg mass of fat and liquid from the abdomen of a middle-aged woman in the procedure known as a tummy tuck. Francisco Javier Gabilondo, chief of plastic surgery at Hospital Cruces near the Basque city of Bilbao, said on Friday the operation was ”more spectacular than it was difficult”.
The Auckland Blues tore away the predictable facade of Super 14 rugby over the weekend, while the Canterbury Crusaders had their lack of depth exposed as the competition neared the half-way stage. The Crusaders remain at the top of the league, and the Wellington Hurricanes relied on a last minute try and a questionable decision to cling to second.