The nightmare that has tormented Kaizer Chiefs from the start of the new season produced more excruciating heartache and horror at FNB Stadium on Saturday night as Amakhosi tumbled to a shock 2-1 SAA Supa8 defeat against Bloemfontein Celtic.
Australia matched its worst losing record in nearly 25 years on Saturday after its fourth consecutive rugby union test defeat, losing 22-19 against a rampant South Africa in the Tri-Nations series. A sellout record crowd of 43 278 at Subiaco Oval was not able to help the Wallabies overcome winger Bryan Habana’s two tries.
The Zimbabwe Stock Exchange on Friday went for a third consecutive day without trading as buyers shunned the bourse over the introduction of a new tax on profits. Finance Minister Herbert Murerwa this week announced a 10% withholding tax on shares sold on the stock market beginning next month.
Lobby group Doctors for Life International are taking four health bills, including one on abortion, to the Constitutional Court next week. The group want to see the speaker of the National Assembly, the chair of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP) and the Minister of Health in court on Tuesday.
South African Airways (SAA) lodged an appeal on Friday against the Competition Tribunal’s R45 million fine imposed on the airline for abusing its dominant position in the domestic airline market.
Pope Benedict XVI visited a synagogue in Cologne on Friday in a clear sign that building better relations between the Catholic church and other faiths would play an important role in his papacy. The German pontiff, who served briefly and unwillingly in the Hitler Youth, visited the city-centre synagogue which was destroyed by the Nazis and later rebuilt.
Former apartheid-era security police colonel Gideon Nieuwoudt died in Port Elizabeth on Friday after a battle with cancer, his lawyer Jan Wagener said. Wagener said Nieuwoudt, who was in his mid-fifties, had cancer of the lungs which had spread to other organs, and there had also been worrying tumours on his brain.
The name Louis Trichardt was shoved down the throats of the majority of people living there and they were entitled to change it to one with historical significance to them, the Pretoria High Court heard on Friday. The Louis Trichardt Chairperson’s Association applied to the High Court to set aside a decision to change the town’s name to Makhado.
Members of Zimbabwe’s football team are being rewarded for winning a regional tournament with plots of land cleared of township homes. The team, known as the Warriors, won the Confederation of Southern African Football Associations (Cosafa) Cup on Sunday with a surprise 1-0 victory over Zambia in South Africa.
To Australians, it is the linguistic equivalent of beer and barbecues — but the ubiquitous greeting of ”mate” was in danger of being banned at the nation’s centre of government. In an edict from a senior civil servant, security staff at Australia’s national parliament were told to stop using the greeting ”G’day mate” when admitting visitors and politicians.