Australian Grant Hackett became the first swimmer to win four world titles in the same event on Sunday as he claimed his fourth straight 1 500m freestyle crown at the 11th World Swimming Championships. He had already triumphed in the 400m freestyle and had a world-record-breaking victory in the 800m freestyle.
Coded Nazi messages intercepted by Britain could have exposed the scope of the Holocaust years before the liberation of the death camps, but Allied codebreakers failed to fully understand the information they had, according to United States government analysis of intelligence from the era.
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Sunday suspended its national chairperson, Ziba Jiyane, at a national council meeting at Umhlanga Rocks, Durban. The IFP said Jiyane last week brought its name into disrepute by saying that the party was operating as ”an internal dictatorship”.
Thirteen people died in a collision between a bus and a van between Rouxville and Smithfield on Monday morning, Free State police reported. The accident occurred at about 1am, said Sergeant Thandi Mbambo. ”The truck was apparently parked partially on the side of the road after a mechanical problem,” Mbambo said.
In Tahoua market, there is no sign that times are hard. Instead, there are piles of red onions, bundles of glistening spinach, and pumpkins sliced into orange shards. There are plastic bags of rice, pasta and manioc flour, and the sound of butchers’ knives whistling as they are sharpened before hacking apart joints of goat and beef.
Delegates at the land summit in Johannesburg on Saturday rejected the land-reform policy based on the willing-buyer-willing-seller principle, media reports said on Sunday. Director General of Land Affairs Glen Thomas said opposition from commercial farmers means the matter requires further talks.
Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka’s announcement that the ”willing-seller, willing-buyer” system is to be reviewed is unlikely to bring radical changes to land purchases in South Africa, land specialists say. But Mlambo-Ngcuka’s announcement was a clear sign that the government realised South Africa’s land-reform programme was not yielding the desired results
A row has erupted over plans involving a bid by international primatologist Jane Goodall and South African National Parks CEO David Mabunda to rescue abused chimpanzees from Angola and give them sanctuary in South Africa. Seven chimps are destined to fly to the Umhloti sanctuary in Nelspruit in early September.
Recently, Nedbank took time off to ask black customers to accompany it on a rather interesting journey. The bank launched its client empowerment share scheme, Eyethu (Zulu for ”ours”). Starting in August, the scheme will see the bank sell 2,17%, or 9,5-million shares, of its issued share capital to black -clients.
The South African National Taxi Council has on the whole welcomed the taxi recapitalisation programme roll-out plan announced recently, but it has questioned key elements of the strategy. Santaco spokesperson Reggie Mutsi said that council welcomed the strategy as most of the issues it it had raised during its input into the revised programme had been incorporated in the new plan.