Erotic-club owner Andrew Phillips failed in his Constitutional Court bid to have a restraining on his assets rescinded, the court ruled on Friday. Phillips was arrested in 2000 to face charges under the Sexual Offences Act and a restraining order was placed on his assets.
China’s embassy in Harare has appealed to the Zimbabwean government to protect its nationals following the murder of a Chinese man in the capital. In a statement, the embassy noted with concern that several Chinese nationals and companies had been ”plundered by armed robbers”, the state-controlled Herald reported.
The chase, for Flavio Briatore, is everything. Whether he is masterminding a third formula-one drivers’ world championship at Renault or attempting to buy Chelsea Football Club with Bernie Ecclestone, the climactic moment always seems hollow in comparison to the build-up. Briatore reveals the secrets of Fernando Alonso’s success to Donald McRae.
As hirings and firings go, you couldn’t get a much greater contrast than the two that happened in South African rugby this week. The Griqualand West Rugby Union passed a vote of no confidence in its president, Baby Richards, accusing him of failing to vote in the manner instructed by his union.
Strike action by staff of beauty and pharmacy retailer Clicks who are members of the South African Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union was under way across the country on Friday, although most stores were open, both the union and New Clicks said.
The chairperson of Skandia Insurance, Bernt Magnusson, has decided to resign from the company’s board due to differences of opinion with fellow board members about Old Mutual’s bid for the firm, AFX reported from Stockholm on Friday. The board of the Swedish insurer was split over the R38-billion bid from Old Mutual.
”In one-day cricket, adequate contributions in all disciplines are considered more valuable than high-class specialisations: a utilitarian, faintly Marxist outlook, suited to a game designed for uncritical consumption by the masses. Usually it works well enough,” writes Tom Eaton.
World Cup week, and it’s a question of frontmen: Puff Diddy or Biggie Smalls. Sven-Goran Eriksson takes his bruised and battered England into battle against Austria at Old Trafford on Saturday without the suspended Wayne Rooney. Uncomfortable options remain for the icy Swede before a game England dare not lose.
So, Roy Keane is in his last season as a Manchester United player. Given that he is 35 next birthday, that hardly counts as a surprise and, given that he has his heart set on a career in management, it will be no great surprise either if he turns up on the Old Trafford payroll again at some date in the future.
If ever there was doubt that 2005 marked a watershed in South African football, some newspaper stories doing the rounds ahead of this weekend’s qualifier, served as confirmation of how times have changed. In normal times, the words ”World Cup” would have preceded ”qualifier” when referring to the match against the Democratic Republic of Congo.