Listed hotel and gaming group Sun International will proceed with the sale of its entire 38,6% stake in City Lodge Hotels to Sun International shareholders for a total of R627-million, in exchange for repurchasing its own shares from them, the company said on Tuesday.
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Friendship and camaraderie was the reason for payments made by Schabir Shaik to former deputy president Jacob Zuma, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday in Shaik’s corruption and fraud appeal bid. Shaik’s defence also called his 15-year jail sentence ”shockingly inappropriate”.
Shane Warne insisted on Tuesday that England had paid the price for getting caught up in the hype surrounding the Ashes after Australia’s crushing 239-run first Test win at Lord’s. ”I think what certain players said in the build-up was important. It was surprising to hear some of them come out with such strong opinions,” Warne wrote in his column in The Times.
New Zealand’s Parliament on Tuesday called on the national cricket team to abandon a tour to Zimbabwe, in a symbolic gesture a day after the team left for Africa to prepare for the series. Prime Minister Helen Clark introduced the resolution, which expressed grave concern at human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
West Indies fast bowler Tino Best has been fined 50% of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his country’s second Test match against Sri Lanka. Best was found guilty of conduct contrary to the spirit of cricket by ICC Match Referee Mike Procter in a hearing on Tuesday in Kandy.
The secret of British Prime Minister Tony Blair famous all-year healthy glow has been revealed — his spends almost twice as much on make-up as the average British woman. Figures released by Downing Street show that Blair spent more than £1 800 (R20 900) on make-up and make-up artists over the past six years.
An escaped Israeli convict experienced first-hand the perils of hitchhiking after he thumbed a lift on Sunday only to be picked up by a prison warden who drove him straight back to jail. "When he leant over to ask which direction we were heading, I saw he was the prisoner we had been looking for nine months," the officer said.
An original eye patch worn by legendary Israeli chief of staff and statesman Moshe Dayan is being offered for a staggering $75 000 (about R501 000) on internet auction site eBay. The sellers obtained the eyepatch from a bodyguard of the late minister, who acquired it and a .38 calibre revolver minutes after Dayan died in 1981.
A suspected cannibal who allegedly murdered his niece and then roasted and ate her right thigh is expected to appear in the Harding Magistrate’s Court in southern KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday. Police spokesperson Superintendent Zandra Hechter said the man was arrested on Sunday after he allegedly killed his sister’s three-year-old daughter and attempted to kill her other children.
A Dutch court on Tuesday handed down a life sentence against Mohammed Bouyeri, a Dutch-Moroccan Islamic radical who was convicted of killing Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, and ruled the murder was a terrorist act. Van Gogh was well known for his scathing criticism of Islam and the multicultural society.