Nelson Mandela and international music stars pressed the world’s richest nations to save lives with increased action against HIV/Aids and poverty at a benefit concert under the midnight sun in Norway’s Arctic. ”Let every child be a healthy child,” Mandela told the cheering crowd of almost 18 000. ”We know what to do and how much it will cost. We now need leadership, vision and political courage.”
Mike Tyson’s career apparently ended in yet another shocker on Saturday night when he quit on the stool after taking a beating in a foul-filled sixth round against unheralded Kevin McBride. Tyson lost for the third time in his last four fights, and once again he faded badly as the rounds went on before deliberately head butting McBride.
Someone must have been telling lies about Joseph K. For, without doing anything wrong, he was arrested one fine morning. So begins The Trial, whose lonely protagonist stumbles into a judicial nightmare orchestrated by a malign society. On United States campuses, thousands of freshmen read Kafka’s novel every year.
An international film team which apparently disappeared while on assignment in a remote part of Namibia has been found safe in a bizarre case said to involve a Hollywood sex guru, a Russian Rambo, a British businessman and African witchcraft.
The squeaky-clean image of tennis is at risk as the sport braces itself for a court case which threatens to expose match-fixing by top players. Irakli Labadze, a Georgian last year ranked 42nd in the world, will be accused at a court hearing in Austria this week of conspiring with a professional gambler to make money by ”throwing” a match.
African National Congress (ANC) MP James Ngculu ousted Western Cape ANC chairperson Ibrahim Rasool from his post following an election at the party’s provincial congress on Saturday. Ngculu, who chairs the National Assembly’s health committee, won the election by 274 to 259 votes.
Head coach Clive Woodward said that the British and Irish Lions tour had reached a make-or-break point after his side were tamed on Saturday in a shock 13-19 defeat by the New Zealand Maori. Woodward, the mastermind behind England’s World Cup success, has his heart set on a Lions Test series win in New Zealand, rating it as the pinnacle of achievement in rugby.
South Africa beat Uruguay 134-3 in the one-off rugby Test played at the Absa Stadium in East London on Saturday afternoon. The Springboks led 56-3 at halftime. The result represents a Springbok record for points scored in a Test match, surpassing the 101-0 thrashing dished out to Italy in Durban in 1999.
A historic deal to free more than 30 poor countries from the crippling shackles of debt to the West was hailed by Bob Geldof on Saturday as a ”victory for millions”. The -billion settlement, which will immediately benefit countries from Ethiopia and Uganda to Rwanda and Mozambique, was the beginning rather than the end, the campaigning rock star said.
Armed robbers hit the Mail & Guardian in Milpark, Johannesburg, on Saturday night and made off with almost every single computer in the building. Chief operation officer Hoosain Karjieker said an armed gang of ten men held-up security guards at the Media Mill office park, and then forced them to open the door to the Mail & Guardian‘s office on Saturday night.