There were a number of shocks and omissions in Jake White’s 33-man Springbok squad announced on Saturday night. White has included three new caps: Bulls hooker Gary Botha, Lions scrumhalf Enrico Januarie and Tonderai Chavhanga from Western Province, but it is the players he left out that will no probably cause the most consternation.
The violence that has reportedly killed hundreds of protesters in eastern Uzbekistan appeared to be spreading to neighbouring towns on Saturday night, raising fears that the volatile Central Asian state could erupt into a full-scale revolution.
She turned from the British Prime Minister’s gaze and clicked her slender pale fingers. Around her, the eight most powerful men in the world sat open-mouthed, gawping at the generous dollops of souffle laid before them. Click. ”There they go,” Gina said, her delicate features flushed with quiet rage. Click. ”And another one.”
A pipe bomb damaged a house in Manenberg on the Cape Flats on Saturday night, police said on Sunday. A policeman said the motive for the attack, reminiscent of the vigilante violence of People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad), was not immediately known.
It all sounds horribly familiar. Financial skulduggery, calls for a Senate investigation and the whiff of a sex scandal caught on tape. And all of it whirling around the Clinton name. A court case involving the fundraising activities of Senator Hillary Clinton’s former campaign finance chief threatens to put a time-bomb under the former First Lady’s presidential ambitions.
The total revenue generated by the Star Wars film saga would be enough to propel Skywalker Ranch, its nerve centre in California, into the top half of the international wealth league, ahead of Bulgaria, Cyprus and Iceland. If Star Wars was a country, its -billion would place it 70th in the World Bank’s rankings of countries according to gross domestic product.
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A human rights campaigner on Saturday said that 500 people may have died in violent clashes in Uzbekistan in which government troops fired on protesters to put down an uprising. The Uzbek President, Islam Karimov, blamed Islamic militants for the violence, saying that the rebels who seized the state building belonged to the outlawed Islamist group Hizb ut-Tahrir.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s legislature has adopted a new Constitution that reduces the required age for presidential candidates, a move that would allow President Joseph Kabila to stand in the country’s next elections, officials said on Saturday.
The Cats and Sharks drew 20-20 in a scrappy, bottom-of-the-table Super 12 clash at Vodacom Park in Bloemfontein on Saturday evening that consigned the Durban-based outfit to the wooden spoon. The Cats led 10-7 at half-time. The teams fought out a ding-dong battle in the opening 40 minutes as they tried to throw caution to the wind in a bid to entertain the meagre crowd.