When Ernie Els last played at Pinnehurst number two, he found himself with the weekend off. Now, six years later the two-time United States Open winner has learned from his mistakes. ”In ’99 I wasn’t quite on my game and I wasn’t hitting it in the fairways and that cost me,” explained Els here on Tuesday as he prepared for the 105th US Open.
Mbulaeni Mulaudzi and LJ van Zyl, two of South Africa’s most talented young athletes, recorded brilliant victories at the Athens Super Grand Prix on Tuesday night and boosted South Africa’s hopes for the World Championships in Helsinki in August.
President Thabo Mbeki’s sacking on Tuesday of his deputy, Jacob Zuma, has been lauded by opposition parties and economists, while Zuma himself has accepted his fate. Zuma’s fall from grace will trigger a struggle to succeed Mbeki, and threatens to open a rift in the ANC.
Two airline pilots joked and laughed as they flew an empty commercial jet to its limits, switched seats in mid-air and ignored automated warnings before crashing into a residential area. Captain Jesse Rhodes and First Officer Peter Cesarz were both killed after they decided to ”have a little fun”.
Civil liberties groups have condemned an arrangement between Microsoft and Chinese authorities to censor the internet. The American company is helping censors remove ”freedom” and ”democracy” from the net in China with a software package that prevents bloggers from using these and other politically sensitive words.
The Trade and Industry Department is expected to approve a growth strategy for the country’s Business Process Outsourcing and Offshoring (BPO&O) market by September that could create 100Â 000 jobs and cumulative foreign direct investment of about R1,4Â -billion by 2008.
No one could have predicted that a white South African would amass a R100Â Â -million-plus fortune from the empowerment process, but Mark Willcox, the CE of Mvelaphanda Holdings,has done exactly that. Willcox, holds 4,4% of the JSE Securities Exchange-listed conglomerate.
For the moment, it is the homecoming that wasn’t. Somali President Abdullahi Yusuf left Kenya on Monday to relocate his transitional government to Somalia. However, the flight carrying the head of state was subsequently diverted to Djibouti. Reports indicate that poor runway lighting in the southern Somali town of Jowhar prevented the plane from landing.
Around 190,000 homes have been destroyed and thousands arrested in the operation to clean up Zimbabwe’s cities and towns, leaving many of those affected unable to find proper shelter or food. uthorities claimed the operation, was aimed at ridding urban areas of informal flea markets and illegal residential shacks and houses, saying they had become a haven for criminal activities.
Sources within the Johnnic Communications (Johncom) media stable have confirmed that <i>Business Day</i> editor Peter Bruce has terminated the column of controversial commentator David Gleason. Bruce’s decision is attributed to the columnist’s refusal to "stop writing political pieces", as well as to his seemingly overt support for mining magnate Brett Kebble.