Democratic Alliance (DA) leader Tony Leon is leading a DA delegation to the People’s Republic of China, at the invitation of its government. The delegation will undertake a week-long visit to Beijing, Yichang City and Shanghai. The trip has a predominately economic focus.
A magnificent 62 by Tyrone Henderson saw the Warriors clip the Eagles’ talons on Sunday when they beat the defending champions by four wickets in a Standard Bank Pro20 match in Bloemfontein. The home side appeared to be heading for a big total, but the spin bowling of Pieter Strydom and Robin Petersen saw a dramatic middle-order crash.
Despite their best performance in the four-Test series, the Spar South African women’s hockey team lost their fourth and last Test against Argentina on Sunday, going down by one goal to three to the team ranked second in the world. ”It was our best performance as a team,” said team coach Jenny King.
Manchester United manager Sir Alex Ferguson wants to get one over arch-rivals Arsenal even before the English giants meet for next month’s FA Cup final in Cardiff at the Millennium Stadium. FA Cup holders United made it through to the showpiece game with a 4-1 semifinal thrashing of Newcastle in Cardiff on Sunday.
Jonny Wilkinson has vowed to make the British Lions tour of New Zealand in June. ”I’ll be there,” he told The Daily Mail on Monday. Lions coach Clive Woodward has put the England flyhalf, who has not played international rugby since his drop goal gave England World Cup glory 17 months ago, on stand-by.
Ashley Cole’s future at Arsenal is still in doubt after the England left-back, already involved in an approach to Chelsea, refused to commit himself to Arsenal for next season. ”It’s just hard for me to say at the moment,” he said after Arsenal’s FA Cup semifinal victory over Blackburn in Cardiff.
Lance Armstrong is set to make an announcement on Monday that is expected to settle questions on whether he will retire from cycling after this summer’s Tour de France, where he will try for a seventh straight title. Earlier this month, Armstrong called retirement ”a possibility” and said ”I am still thinking about that”.
A pair of half centuries enabled the University of West Indies’ Vice Chancellor’s XI to earn a draw with South Africa on Sunday, the final day of their two-day friendly at the Sir Frank Worrell park at the St Augustine campus. Habibul Bashar and Shikhan Dhawan led the Vice Chancellor’s XI to 250 for five, replying to South Africa’s 395 for six declared when stumps were drawn.
Three yacht crew members on a pleasure cruise had a lucky escape when a container ship weighing more than 13Â 000 tonnes grazed their vessel. The incident on Sunday occurred in clear weather about 10 nautical miles north-west of Robben island, said National Sea Rescue Institute spokesperson Craig Lambinon.
The death and extraordinary worldwide outpouring of grief and ecstatic praise at the burial of Pope John Paul II in Rome brings the issue I raised on agnosticism recently to an unexpected focus. So what is this agnosticism? Being less than confident in my own understanding of the condition that I had staked a claim to, I took the precaution of looking it up in the dictionary.