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/ 26 September 2005
Want to fight the undead this weekend? It’s time to start practising to maim, slice and kill vampires and other horrendous-looking beasts. Carnage has never been this much fun as South African gamers make sure their rocket launchers and chain guns are locked and loaded for the rAge 2005 expo in Johannesburg.
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/ 26 September 2005
Veteran all-rounder Chris Cairns has been dropped from the New Zealand one-day cricket team to tour South Africa next month, but has vowed to recapture his form to achieve his dream of playing in the 2007 World Cup. Coach John Bracewell said on Monday the 35-year-old Cairns was not chosen due to ”issues with his cricket fitness”.
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/ 26 September 2005
A 24-year-old United States citizen was found murdered at a Pretoria school
on Saturday, police said on Monday. Edward Rector was found in a classroom at the Ubuntu Private School in Boschkop on Saturday morning, Inspector Anton Breedt said.
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/ 26 September 2005
United States golfers reclaimed sole possession of the Presidents Cup, but South Africa’s Retief Goosen brought world number one Tiger Woods to his knees with a singles victory on Sunday. Fifth-ranked Goosen’s two and one triumph over the 10-time major champion gave the global squad its first singles victory, but it was not enough to rally the Internationals.
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/ 26 September 2005
The new champion in formula one wears blue and yellow, not red. He is young, not old. He has one title, not seven. Next year, Alonso’s blue and yellow Renault will wear the number one instead of Michael Schumacher’s red Ferrari, which has owned it for the past five years and two other times with Benetton.
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/ 26 September 2005
The Government Printing Works (GPW) which prints identity documents and passports could collapse if state departments failed to pay about R150-million that it is owed, media reports said on Monday. GPW chief executive Tom Moyane warned of the possibility of closure, saying ageing printing machinery needed millions of rand to replace.
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/ 26 September 2005
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Lawyers for former deputy president Jacob Zuma will this week challenge the recent search and seizure operations by the National Prosecuting Authority, media reports said on Monday. Michael Hulley, Zuma’s lawyer, said he would demand the return of all documents and other evidence seized in the raids.
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/ 26 September 2005
An estimated 24-million violent and property crimes were committed in the United States last year, which represents the lowest level in over three decades, according to a government report. The same survey, hailed by the Bush administration as a reward for its tough-on-crime policy, also found that only 50% of all assaults against individuals were being reported to authorities.
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/ 26 September 2005
New restrictions on internet news content in China are aimed at controlling an increasingly independent society that is demanding more rights protections. The new rules issued on Sunday by the State Council, China’s Cabinet, require internet operators to re-register their news sites and police their sites for content that can "endanger state security" and "social order".
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/ 26 September 2005
After a career of more than 50 years, South Africa’s legendary singer and anti-apartheid activist Miriam Makeba has decided she will end her performing days with a farewell international tour that starts in Johannesburg on Monday. ”I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me,” Makeba said in an interview.