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The Democratic Alliance on Saturday said it would challenge some of the ward election results in the Tshwane Metropole, citing alleged irregularities, a party statement said. The DA said the complaints concerned two wards where it was alleged that some voters had not been on the voters’ roll and that some voters were not allowed to vote at those stations.
New South Wales made its first Super 14 home match of the season a winning one Saturday, while the Canterbury Crusaders won their fourth in a row to join the Waratahs among the tournament’s top four. Playing before 25 619 fans in a rare afternoon game, Wallabies winger Lote Tuqiri broke an 11-match try-scoring drought to help the Waratahs to a 31-16 win over South Africa’s Sharks.
The Central Cheetahs knocked Wellington Hurricanes off the top of rugby’s Super 14 with a stirring second-half comeback this weekend. The Hurricanes relinquished their unbeaten start to the southern hemisphere provincial tournament and top spot to fellow New Zealanders Canterbury Crusaders after the Cheetahs claimed a thrilling 27-25 victory in Bloemfontein on Saturday.
Rafael Nadal broke down in tears after his sensational Dubai Open triumph over Roger Federer but admitted that he will probably never displace the Swiss superstar from the world number one spot. The 19-year-old Spaniard clinched his third win in four meetings with the triple Grand Slam title-holder when he won the Dubai crown in a 2-6, 6-4, 6-4 victory on Saturday.
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The Independent Democrats, who emerged kingmakers in the Cape Town metro and also holds the balance of power in various other municipalities in the Western Cape after Wednesday’s election, remains adamant it will not enter into coalitions with any other party.
Zimbabwe will amend its mining laws to allow the government to demand a 51% share in some foreign-owned mines, an official announced on Friday. ”The government wants to be an active participant in the mining business … In effect I am saying the principles to the Amendments of the Mines and Minerals Act have been presented and approved by Cabinet,” Mining Minister Amos Midzi told reporters in Harare.
A South African record haul of 6 for 22 by Makhaya Ntini saw South Africa inflict its biggest victory over Australia in the second Standard Bank One-Day International at Newlands on Friday. South Africa now lead the five-match series 2-0. ”It was fantastic,” said South African captain Graeme Smith.
Bafana Bafana is being run by a bunch of amateurs and the national soccer team has been reduced to the level of comedians. These were some of the scathing sentiments delivered by Kaizer Chiefs supremo Kaizer Motaung in what amounts to a devastating indictment of Safa and its administrators on the Amakhosi website on Friday.
Johannesburg police on Saturday denied media reports that the wife of an alleged drug dealer who was regularly visited by late R&B singer Tsakani ”TK” Mhinga had been arrested. The Saturday Star reported that an alleged drug dealer who lived at a townhouse complex called La Michelle in Midrand was believed to have regularly supplied the singer with drugs and that she regularly visited the residence.
A bus trip from Harare to Bulawayo takes you through the drama of Zimbabwean fiction. Harare has some of the plate-glass sheen of a metropolis. Bulawayo is more laid back, with the wide avenues and porticoed walkways of a century ago. Zimbabwe’s books tell of transitions between old and new, village and city, seamed with family ties and ancestral resonance.