Johannesburg metro police have denied harassing patrons at a Norwood restaurant to show their driver’s licences in a hunt for outstanding traffic fines. The Star reported patrons and owners at a restaurant in Norwood’s Grant Avenue as saying metro police entered and demanded to see the driver’s licences of diners.
The two rival camps in the battle over next-generation DVD standardisation are looking forward to the International Radio and TV Exhibition in Berlin from September 2 to 7. Since consumers will likely decide the winner — Blu-Ray or HD-DVD technology — producers are eager to impress them with devices in the new formats.
The International Cycling Union (UCI) said on Monday it will investigate reports of positive drug tests at the 1999 Tour de France, but stopped short of naming seven-time winner Lance Armstrong. The allegations surfaced last week in the French sports daily newspaper L’Equipe.
With the spectre of relegation already round the corner for Jomo Cosmos, club owner and coach Jomo Sono was clearly only too happy to help the Premier Soccer League (PSL) solve a predicament caused by Fifa’s week of international fixtures. The result is a game against Dynamos at Germiston Stadium on Tuesday afternoon.
Everything appeared to be going right for Bafana Bafana when they arrived in the historic old German city of Bremen to begin preparation for Saturday’s vital away World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso. But the South African contingent was dismayed to discover that most of the team kit was still in London.
Eight-time grand-slam champion Andre Agassi launched his 20th United States Open campaign with a swift straight-set victory over Romanian Razvan Sabau on Monday, to the delight of New York fans. French Open champion Rafael Nadal eased into the second round with a 6-3, 6-3, 6-4 victory over Bobby Reynolds.
Former French Open champion Gaston Gaudio became the United States Open’s first major casualty on Monday, falling to American Brian Baker in three sets on the first day of the season’s final grand slam. Eighth-seeded Serena Williams beat back a second-set challenge from 16-year-old Taiwanese qualifier Yung-Jan Chan 6-1, 6-3
Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo on Monday met a group of white farmers whose farms were seized by the Zimbabwean government and promised to help them overcome their initial financial and infrastructural problems in their new country. Obasanjo visited the farmers on their leased land on Friday.
Liberian football legend turned presidential candidate George Weah is enjoying soaring popularity among young people, but this wanes among students trying to get an education. During visits to communities, 38-year-old Weah attracts large crowds of former combatants, peddlers, petty traders and football fans.
A pair of ruby slippers worn by Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz and insured for -million is missing from a museum. Police Chief Leigh Serfling said the slippers were stolen late on Saturday or early on Sunday. Someone entered the museum through a window and broke into the small display case holding the slippers.