Premiership clubs, led by the European champions Liverpool, were three of the top four earners in last season’s Champions League, though Manchester United were not among them. Uefa revealed this week reveal that Liverpool generated £20,5-million from tele-vision and media revenues, as well as performance bonuses.
It wasn’t supposed to happen in the new South Africa, the country of Nelson Mandela that in the 1990s came to symbolise hope, resilience and the ”long walk to freedom”, an indelible inspiration to the entire world. No, it wasn’t supposed to happen anymore, preventing a newspaper from publishing a story about potential lawbreaking by the powers that be.
The recent Constitutional Court decision in the matter of a woman gang-raped by on-duty policemen has emphasised the court’s view that ”few things can be more important to women than freedom from the threat of sexual violence”. The court made this finding while holding that the minister of safety and security was liable for damages arising from a lawsuit instituted by the rape survivor.
Climate change is in danger of becoming the poor relation at the G8 summit. It has no pop icons throwing gala concerts or summoning up a fleet of small boats to transport protesters across the Channel. By contrast, Make Poverty History is proving the most popular mass movement of the year.
It was a mere 29 years ago that this date became an indelible mark on the national calendar — the day when black students took to the streets to protest against the use of Afrikaans as a mandatory language of instruction at schools nationwide. But, since 1994, the date has progressively meant less, with a generation of ”born frees’ indifferent to its importance.
Scott Parker flew into Tyneside this week to complete his £6,5-million transfer from Chelsea to Newcastle United. Parker is interrupting his holiday in Portugal — he was in the same complex as Alan Shearer — to travel to Newcastle where he will sign a three- or four-year contract.
An aura of sanctity is descending on the world’s most powerful men. Last weekend the finance ministers from seven of the G8 nations promised to cancel the debts the poorest countries owe to the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The hand that holds the sword has been stayed by angels: angels with guitars rather than harps.
The 1976 June uprising opened the floodgates for popular struggles, which ultimately made racial capitalism unprofitable. In response to this, Zac de Beer, the then-director of Anglo American, said: ”We all understand how years of apartheid have caused many blacks to reject the economic and political system …
Two KwaZulu-Natal girls have been left traumatised after witnessing their father eat the flesh off their dead mother’s face on Friday morning, police said. After being apprehended by police, the Tugela Ferry man suddenly choked, became unconscious and died at the scene, said a police spokesperson.
Gary Lineker this week attacked the ”murky” world of the football transfer business, telling a high court jury in London that Harry Kewell’s transfer from Leeds United to Liverpool was a deal that had tarnished the game’s reputation. The former
English captain says comments from a player’s agent irked him.