About 125 Gauteng bus operators refused to run their buses on Wednesday, leaving thousands of pupils stranded, the South African Bus Operators’ Association said. The operators demand 35c/km for each child transported, while the Gauteng education department is offering 25c/km per child.
The police are searching for a man who was seen with a little girl shortly before she was strangled in Sundimbili in northern KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Captain Jay Naicker said according to reports the girl was last seen with a man who was visiting his family in the area.
Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa on Wednesday announced that Zambia has agreed to deport a Briton to his home country after he was arrested in Zambia on suspicion of terrorism. Haroon Aswat (31) has been named in media reports as the alleged mastermind behind the July 7 blasts in London that killed 56 people.
World Cup-winning loosehead prop Os du Randt could miss the Springboks’ crunch Vodacom Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand this weekend after picking up a knock during a training session at Bishops College on Tuesday afternoon. Du Randt was struck down during a move early in the session on Tuesday.
Food of gluttonous proportions was served to all and sundry at this week’s function to launch the 2005/06 Premier Soccer League (PSL), but the soccer programme itself starts with something more in line of an aperitif when Ajax Cape Town entertain Jomo Cosmos at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night.
There were signs from the start that this might be a year Ernie Els would like to forget. He stood on the 18th tee at Kapalua in Hawaii with a great chance to win the first tournament of the year. But his tee shot caromed off a cart path next to a fairway 70 yards wide and sailed out of bounds. Now his season has ended in far more peculiar fashion.
While mothers continue to bring children weak with hunger to feeding centres, market stalls are filled with food — but at prices well out of the reach of many in this desperately poor nation. ”It is the government’s job to deal with the hungry, we the traders are here for business,” said Ibrahim Baye, who sells millet, a staple in Niger, at Maradi market.
Long considered a bastion of ethical integrity, Germany’s influential public broadcasters find themselves these days embroiled in a scandal involving kickbacks from advertisers and the practice of sneaking blatantly commercial promotions into supposedly non-commercial prime-time shows.
United States business software giant Oracle said on Tuesday it was buying a controlling stake in Indian firm i-flex solutions for just over -million. The Mumbai-based i-flex, which employs more than 5Â 500 people worldwide, specialises in providing software and services to banks globally.
Proposed changes to Zimbabwe’s Constitution that seek to make it easier for the government to seize farmland from whites could be aimed at ethnic cleansing, the country’s top white farmer said on Tuesday. Zimbabwe’s Parliament is expected to debate amendments that will make it impossible for white farmers to seek legal recourse once the government has earmarked their land for expropriation.