The ground is a sea of trash; the stench almost unbearable. Yet Pape Ndiaye, who speaks for the hundreds of scavengers who comb the vast garbage dump at Mbeubeuss, near Dakar, Senegal, is proud of his work — which, he says, allows him to retain his dignity. About 1Â 000 people grind a living from this mountain of rubbish spread over three hectares.
Wringing a fine-handling motorcycle’s neck around Kyalami is usually fun. Flogging 167 horses (123kW) around the racetrack in the rain, however, is a different matter, so the five-lap track session that served as my introduction to the new BMW K1200S was more than enough for me.
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Two news caps were on Monday included in the Springbok starting line-up for Saturday’s Test against Uruguay in East London, with Jean de Villiers picked at inside centre. The new caps are Lions scrumhalf Enrico January and right wing Tonderai Chavanga, of Western Province.
Metrorail’s attempt to get a Labour Court order to stop a strike that is disrupting its services failed on Monday, the United Transport and Allied Trade Union said. Metrorail workers said they will continue to strike unless the company agrees to a 6,5% wage increase across the board.
Race-based criticism of Judge Hillary Squires at the weekend was not warranted, the South African Human Rights Commission said on Monday. African National Congress Youth League president Fikile Mbalula at the weekend called Judge Squires an ”apartheid judge”, while the Young Communist League accused him of being a racist.
Nando’s, the fast-food chicken outlet, has not been singled out by the government’s Healthy Lifestyle campaign, a spokesperson for the minister of health said on Monday. Media reports said the minister of health was sent a letter by Nando’s demanding she withdraw remarks allegedly made about its food being unhealthy.
Civilisation has outgrown animal bounties, an oceanographic scientist said on Monday following calls to hunt down sharks after an attack on a Cape spear-fisherman. ”Bounties come from the Dark Ages,” said the director of the Oceanographic Research Institute in Durban.
The CEO of the Border Cricket Board in East London and a South African National Defence Force major were among 12 people arrested on Monday on fraud charges, Eastern Cape police said.
Media hoping to interview Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Monday were threatened with arrest outside the African National Congress headquarters. Johannesburg metro police officers told reporters, photographers and cameramen that if they crossed a tape barricade, they would be arrested.