Gil Morgan used an eagle, six birdies and an adventurous par on the last hole to take a two-stroke lead after two rounds of The Tradition on Friday. Morgan finished with an 8-under 64 for a two-round total of 11-under 133 in the final major of the year on the 50-and-over Champions Tour.
Vodacom will slash its peak call time rates by up to 50% for weekdays between 5pm and 8pm, the mobile operator announced on Friday. Dubbed Vodacom’s ”Happy Hours”, the new tariff will see a standard on-network call rate of R1,49 per minute (including VAT) for pre-paid and contract customers.
The swine fever outbreak in the Eastern Cape has been brought under control, the Agriculture and Land Affairs Department said on Friday. Spokesperson Steve Galane said only small areas in the Western and Eastern Cape were still affected by the disease that was detected last month.
Djibril Cisse came off the subs bench to lead Liverpool to a 3-1 Super Cup win over CSKA Moscow in Monaco on Friday. The France international, who has been upset by speculation that he might be shipped out of Anfield to make way for the possible return of Real Madrid’s Michael Owen, could not have made a more eloquent or timely argument in favour of keeping him at Merseyside.
The family of a man who was allegedly raped by three women say he is so traumatised that he won’t speak a word to anyone. ”He isn’t all right. We are trying to talk to him but he is not saying anything. We are just trying to sort things out,” said Michelle, the 30-year-old victim’s sister-in-law.
Iraq’s leaders were struggling to meet yet another deadline on a new Constitution on Friday night amid increasing US alarm that the draft will exclude Sunni Arabs. The ruling Shia and Kurdish coalition held what were billed as last-ditch talks with Sunni leaders, but there was no sign of a breakthrough as the midnight deadline approached.
President Robert Mugabe’s government has blocked a -million (about R195-million) United Nations fundraising drive to provide food and medicine to Zimbabweans hardest hit by the state destruction of urban slum housing, UN relief officials said on Friday.
The police tape fluttering gently marks the front line. On one side sits a rag-tag collection of tents, home-made placards calling for the troops to come home and a long line of white crosses representing the soldiers killed in Iraq. On the other side of the small country lane there is a smart collection of garden-style awnings filled with fold-out canvas chairs, lined with glossy placards proclaiming ”Bush Country”, ”IM4W” and ”Support Our Troops”.
Britain will join an international alliance to confront United States President George Bush and salvage as much as possible of an ambitious plan to reshape the United Nations and tackle world poverty next week. The head-to-head in New York on Monday comes after the revelation that the US administration is proposing wholesale changes to crucial parts of the biggest overhaul of the UN since it was founded more than 50 years ago.
Powerful Typhoon Mawar hit central Japan early on Friday, bringing heavy rain and fierce winds that left at least one person dead, two people missing and four injured, officials said. Transportation was also disrupted by the storm, leaving tens of thousands stranded.