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.”
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.
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”.
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.
Former president Nelson Mandela at one stage asked PW Botha to re-enter politics and resume the leadership of the National Party, Botha says in a filmed interview with former South African Broadcasting Corporation journalist Cliff Saunders. In the interview Botha says it is well known that Mandela at his own request met him several times, in Cape Town and at Botha’s Wilderness home.
Supporters of Zimbabwean opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai opened a two-day congress on Saturday, struggling not only against the autocratic rule of President Robert Mugabe but also against a damaging split in their own party. The meeting is the first since the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) split over whether to contest last November’s elections for a new upper house or Senate.
Coca-Cola has been heavily criticised for causing extreme water shortages in developing countries where supplies are scarce. New evidence from campaign group War on Want appears to show that Coca-Cola has had a serious impact in communities in several Indian states and in Latin America.
When president George Bush launched a high-profile series of speeches last week aimed at calming nerves about the Iraq war he chose to do so in the heart of Washington DC. At George Washington University, he asked the United States to stay the course through troubled times. It was a familiar message to an audience that had heard it all before.