Lance Armstrong has shaken off a crash in his preparation for this Saturday’s Tour de France first stage, a 19km time trial, and appears ready for his bid to win a seventh consecutive yellow jersey on what will be his retirement race. The 33-year-old American escaped with only a cut to his face after crashing on his time-trial bike in training on Sunday.
Some of the world’s most inventive scientists were on Monday awarded grants totalling -million to turn their outside-the-box ideas into practical solutions to the 14 greatest problems besetting human health today. Among the 43 projects to receive funding are several aiming to produce vaccines that do not require refrigeration.
Australia is likely to join New Zealand and Britain in a call to ban Zimbabwe from international cricket because of human rights abuses by the Harare government, Australian Foreign Minister Alexander Downer said on Tuesday. Australia is not scheduled to play cricket this year in Zimbabwe.
More than two million workers supported Monday’s stayaway in protest against job losses, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) asserted. It said this was a clear signal to government and employers that more should be done to create jobs and stop retrenchments.
As an actor he had a sidekick called Bonzo. And as politician, he never quite lived down his quip to start bombing Russia in five minutes. But in life Ronald Reagan was forgiven most of his faults, and in death America now regards him as the greatest of them all.
The entertainment industry on Monday scored a landmark victory in its effort to crack down on the illegal file-sharing of music and films. In a ruling that could spell the end for the ”peer-to-peer” networks that have flourished online, the United States supreme court said software makers can be held liable for enabling computer users to copy protected work without permission.
The ongoing fracas around the retirement annuity business will no doubt have a deeply negative impact on our savings rate. Currently, South Africa’s savings rate is among the lowest in the world at just under 15% of gross domestic product a fraction of the 36% savings rate of South-East Asia.
Based in the heart of the Tsitsikamma in the Eastern Cape lies one of South Africa’s true tourism gems — Storms-river Adventures. It is based in the scenic village of Storms River, 75km from Plettenberg Bay and 160km from Port Elizabeth, and is fast becoming a Mecca for adrenaline addicts the world over.
Zimbabwe on Monday challenged British Prime Minister Tony Blair to be "man enough" to visit the Southern African country to get firsthand understanding of the current government-driven blitz on illegal structures and meet President Robert Mugabe.
Now that we finally have a dog in the family, we find ourselves perforce with a dog’s eye view of the world. Not the usual myth that says "dogs see everything in black and white", which would be a convenient bit of psychic editing to tap into in our increasingly confusing "rainbow" way of viewing our confusing nation.