It can safely be assumed that Jack Nicklaus did not grow up with a burning ambition to win the Telus Skins Game, a made-for-television marketing event disguised as a Canadian golf tournament, but put a club in the hands the greatest player of all time and he just cannot help himself.
Minutes after the explosions in central London, a quiet room inside the ambulance service headquarters on Waterloo Road became the heart of the capital’s emergency response. A chamber usually used for low-priority calls was transformed in a short space of time into the ”gold control room” — the communications centre for hundreds of ambulance workers.
A leading international agricultural policy group on Thursday urged African nations to drop opposition to biotechnology crop research and genetically modified foods, saying such a step could dramatically improve food security on the impoverished continent.
The Mail & Guardian sent detailed questions to Sandi Majali and Imvume; Deputy President Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka and her former Minerals and Energy Department; the ANC, Kgalema Motlanthe and Mendi Msimang; and the Strategic Fuel Fund Association (SFF), and Riaz Jawoodeen, the former SFF director.
Little wonder general manager Stanley ”Screamer” Tshabalala was cooing like a dove on Thursday after it was confirmed Bafana Bafana will play Panama in the quarterfinals of the Concacaf Gold Cup tournament at Houston’s ultra-modern Reliant Stadium on Sunday.
Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe on Thursday said his government should have emphasised the ”reconstruction aspect” of a controversial programme of shack demolitions that human rights groups say has left at least 300Â 000 people homeless.
I am enraged at the utter crassness, crudity and weapons-grade stupidity of whatever organisation now manufactures and sells the almost immortal game of Scrabble. I went to buy a new Scrabble set the other day. The box was marked Original Scrabble and, like a fool, I took that on trust.
A smiling Eddie Jones is Napoleoning up and down a rugby pitch at this very moment with Jake White’s jewels in the left side pocket of his tracksuit top. And he is squeezing them very, very hard. Jones has good reason to be basking in this savoury glow of satisfaction.
In a move aimed at boosting its stagnating membership, the Congress of South African Trade Unions will shortly launch a new trade union for workers in the burgeoning informal economy. The decision was taken at a national workshop in February attended by Cosatu affiliates, former members of the defunct Self-Employed Women’s Union (Sewu), Sikhula Sonke and StreetNet.
African National Congress heavyweights, including a newly elected mayor from the George district, Lulama Mvimbi, had their drinks snatched from their hands and were told to leave a well-known Plettenberg Bay pub this week because the pub owner did not ”like the attitude” of one of their friends.