I was listening to Radio Sweden the other day. Don’t laugh. You have no idea how difficult it is to continue writing a column after that opening, but I’ve always wanted to try. It’s like accepting a challenge from your mates to weave the words platypus or absquatulate into a column ("semiaquatic egg-laying mammal" and "to depart in a hurry", respectively).
South Africa are looking to close out their best-of-five one-day international series against West Indies with a victory in the third match on Wednesday. The South Africans lead the best-of-five series 2-0, after winning the first two matches at Kingston by the identical margin of eight wickets on Saturday and Sunday.
I lost my libido and didn’t know where to find it. I know when I lost it and why. But the sad thing was that I didn’t miss it. If my partner hadn’t warned me that it was gone I wouldn’t even have known. It’s not that I made any conscious decision to be celibate or chaste nor did I choose an asexual existence.
The importance of black economic empowerment financier Makalani must have whizzed past most newspaper readers when they learned of its imminent launch on the JSE Securities Exchange. The reason is the phrase ”mezzanine financing”, previously a mystery to all but financiers.
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United States forces hunting down followers of Iraq’s most wanted terrorist pushed into a lawless region north of the Euphrates River near the Syrian border on Tuesday after meeting unexpected resistance from insurgents hidden in remote desert outposts along the waterway’s southern shores.
The Competition Tribunal gave the go-ahead on Tuesday for mining company Harmony’s hostile takeover of rival Gold Fields — provided it caps retrenchments arising from the merger at 1 000. The figure includes contracted employees, and retrenchments have to be confined to management and supervisory posts.
The 62 South African alleged mercenaries in Zimbabwe may now be released only on Wednesday, their lawyer, Alwyn Griebenow, said on Tuesday. He said he has been told by prison officials the group might be released on Wednesday, ”but nobody is prepared to commit to this”. The men will be deported once they are released.
There was still no word on Tuesday afternoon whether 62 South African alleged mercenaries being held in Zimbabwe will be released, the South African embassy there said. The men’s sentences expire on Tuesday. They were convicted of breaching Zimbabwe’s aviation, immigration, firearms and security laws.
The era of disposing landmines by detonation could be over after a high-tech device was unveiled on Tuesday that neutralises mines with a remote-controlled gas flame. The MineBurner is a remote-controlled device that burns landmines without the need to move, touch or detonate them.