South Africa laboured to 85 for two in its follow-on second innings on Sunday, battling to save the opening Test against the West Indies as day four at Bourda drew to a close. South Africa, who resumed their first innings at 130 for six, were bowled out just before lunch for 188.
Another six children were removed from an unregistered Soweto orphanage this weekend after 27 were taken last week, the Gauteng social development department said on Monday. ”On Sunday night we were tipped [off] that there were children in the house … we found six children, three boys and three girls,” a departmental spokesperson said.
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The Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial resumes in the Durban High Court on Monday. Shaik’s instructing attorney, Reeves Parsee, said the defence will call a further two, or possibly three, witnesses but remained tight-lipped about who they will be. The state will also apply to call two more witnesses.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Sunday welcomed reports that former askari Joe Mamasela has backtracked on his statement that the bodies exhumed recently by the NPA were not those of the ”Mamelodi 10”. An NPA spokesperson said Mamasela changed his tune after a meeting with NPA officials last week.
Mark Thatcher, son of the former British prime minister Margaret Thatcher, said on Sunday he has been denied a visa to rejoin his family in the United States, calling it a result of his guilty plea involving a coup plot in Equatorial Guinea. He said the rejection by US visa authorities means that his family will instead relocate to Europe.
The death toll from an outbreak of the deadly Marburg virus in Angola has reached 150, media reports quoted health authorities in the south-west African country as saying on Sunday. About 163 cases have been recorded of the virus that, like the Ebola virus, causes massive internal bleeding that results in death.
Visitors to the Addo Elephant National Park will be able to see the big five as well as whales and great white sharks, due to the addition of the St Croix and Bird Islands to the sanctuary. The new marine area also cements the park’s eastern boundary in Algoa Bay, providing protection to populations of Cape gannet and African penguins.
South African President Thabo Mbeki on Sunday led national mourning for Pope John Paul II, the pontiff who often denounced apartheid and later praised the country’s peaceful transition to democracy. Archbishop Desmond Tutu said he hopes an African will succeed John Paul II, who died late on Saturday.
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Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe plans to scrap holding separate presidential and parliamentary elections, he said in an interview with South African Broadcasting Corporation television on Sunday night. He also plans to introduce more MPs and a two-tier parliamentary system.
The online advertising sector in South Africa posted impressive growth figures of 136,7% for 2004, making it one of the fastest-growing marketing mediums, according to figures released by the South African Online Publishers Association and Nielsen Media Research/AIS AdEx.