KJ Choi and Shigeki Maruyama became the first Asian-born players to enjoy a 1-2 finish on the United States PGA Tour by coming out on top at the Greensboro Chrysler Classic on Sunday. South Korea’s Choi became one of just four Asian-born players who have captured the US PGA event.
Former All Blacks coach John Mitchell has denied suggestions by former skipper Anton Oliver that Mitchell promoted a booze culture in the team. Binge drinking was part of the All Blacks culture until recently, Oliver said in newspaper excerpts from a biography due to be released this week.
A United States soldier convicted of abusing Iraqi prisoners said, in remarks made public late on Sunday, she knew of ”worse things” happening at Abu Ghraib and insisted military commanders were fully aware of what was going on in Iraq’s infamous jail.
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%.
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.
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.
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.