The likes of Brian Lara, Andrew Flintoff, India pair Rahul Dravid and Virender Sehwag, Sri Lanka’s Muttiah Muralitharan and South Africans Jacques Kallis and Shaun Pollock are joining forces in a World XI combination that are aiming to beat the Australians at home. The Australians are ”most definitely” vulnerable, Lara said on Monday.
Popular boy band Westlife are set to join a host of other international and local artists in a charity concert in Johannesburg next month. Westlife will perform together with Christina Aguilera, Diana Ross and violinist Lucia Micarelli at the Coca-Cola Dome, Northgate, on November 4.
Improved food safety would help to reduce the 2 000 deaths estimated to occur every day in Africa from food and waterborne diseases, two United Nations agencies said on Monday. ”Food-borne diseases are a serious threat, especially for Africans already weakened from devastating conditions such as malaria and HIV/Aids,” said the agencies.
The JSE was weaker just before midday on Monday, having been knocked by basket-selling by futures players. Gold stocks, which were further hit by a lower gold price and poor performance by their ADRs in New York on Friday, were down sharply. By 11.56am, the all-share index shed 0,84%.
About 50 Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) members on Sunday shackled themselves to railings at Parliament in Cape Town to highlight their jobs and poverty campaign. Cosatu’s Eastern Cape provincial secretary said marches would start at 10am on Monday in East London, Port Elizabeth, Mthatha and Queenstown.
President Thabo Mbeki, a critic of boom gates, will soon be living in a gated community himself. The Tshwane metro council has approved an application for the closure of a number of streets in Bryntirion, the suburb that has been home to the president, members of the Cabinet and other important officials since the early 1900s.
Four people died when a Red Cross helicopter crashed near Uniondale in the Western Cape, the South African Red Cross Air Mercy Service said on Monday. The Eurocopter BO105 helicopter crashed on Sunday night with a patient and three crew members aboard. The wreckage was found at first light on Monday.
About 350 would-be illegal immigrants stormed part of the metal fence separating the Spanish north African enclave of Melilla from Morocco at dawn on Monday. Local authorities were unable on Monday to explain how the immigrants managed to break through or over the fence, whose height had been raised to six metres, in the latest in a series of assaults on the barrier.
It was a defining moment in 20th century culture — a fat, bearded scruff got to his feet in a San Francisco art gallery and electrified his audience with an epic poetic assault on American values accurately titled Howl. Within months, Allen Ginsberg was in front of an obscenity court (which eventually cleared him) while Jack Kerouac and the rest of the nascent Beat Generation joined him in the most radical literary and musical movement the United States has seen.
Zimbabwean police have arrested 14Â 706 vagrants, street vendors and illegal foreign currency dealers in the capital, Harare, over the past two weeks, a newspaper reported on Monday. The arrests come as police battle to enforce an urban clearance campaign launched five months ago that saw the arrest and subsequent release of about 46Â 000 street traders.