Australian coach Eddie Jones has warned his team not to get sucked into South Africa’s high-tempo game in Saturday’s Tri-Nations clash, saying patience holds the key to victory. The under-fire coach said the Australians will be determined to play at their own pace against the high-flying Springboks.
England’s belief that they are serious World Cup contenders suffered a shattering reality check on Wednesday when Denmark sent them crashing to their worst defeat for 25 years. Fortunately for coach Sven-Goran Eriksson and his bunch of highly-paid but under-performing players, the shambolic 4-1 defeat in Copenhagen was a friendly international.
The South African Council of Churches (SACC) has appointed a group of eminent leaders, led by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, to stop members of a church congregation from threatening each other’s lives and destroying property. The SACC said it can stand by no longer while ”the children of God” are at each other’s throats.
The latest data on building plans passed and residential buildings completed for the first six months of 2005 point to a sharp 43,5% drop in the number of lower-income, smaller houses completed and a 10% fall in the number of plans passed for such houses, according to Absa senior economist Jacques du Toit.
Independent Democrats leader Patricia de Lille says the Democratic Alliance is a small white boys’ club.
The Johannesburg residence of former deputy president Jacob Zuma and the offices of his attorney in Durban were searched by the Scorpions on Thursday morning, his attorney said. This comes after a similar raid at the home of Zuma’s financial adviser Schabir Shaik who is currently appealing a fraud and corruption conviction relating to his relationship with Zuma.
The big freeze for Bafana Bafana in recent times continued in Reykjavik on Wednesday night when Iceland recorded an emphatic 4-1 win over South Africa in what was billed as a warm-up for next month’s critical World Cup qualifying game against Burkina Faso.
The World Golf Championships often include players from areas where golf isn’t widely followed, and are little recognised beyond home. Marc Cayeux is among them. ”I’ve never heard of him,” Tiger Woods said. ”No offence or disrespect at all. I just didn’t know who he was.”
Israeli forces were set for a showdown on Thursday with the final hard core of Gaza Strip settlers, surrounding synagogues where thousands of religious Jews had taken refuge as the country struggled to absorb the traumatic impact of ending its 38-year occupation of Gaza.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe has turned down an offer from former Mozambican leader Joaquim Chissano to mediate between the Zimbabwe government and the opposition, the former president said on Wednesday. ”President Mugabe said clearly there is no need [for] such talks,” Chissano told reporters.