The Alpine ski industry is trying to counter the threat of global warming by building ever higher in the peaks and on the glaciers in order to secure snow guarantees and extend the skiing season. It is also resorting increasingly to the use of snow cannons and artificial snow on the pistes.
The Cats once again put in a superb effort, but a litany of errors and wrong options ultimately cost as they went down 16-12 in a hard-fought Vodacom Super 12 encounter at Ellis Park on Friday night. The Cats now have a tough time ahead with the overseas leg around the corner and just one win in the bag.
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As the election approaches, the Zimbabwean government has taken sole control of food distribution in rural areas. Observers say these elections will bring less of the outright brutality that scarred previous polls. According to accounts, the government party Zanu-PF is offering villagers a simple choice — vote for us or starve.
Once described as a jewel in Africa, Zimbabwe’s economy has undergone a meltdown over the past five years, with the agriculture sector reeling from the seizure of white-owned farms and droughts, economists say. Since 1999, the economy has contracted by a third.
Jose Mourinho is in real trouble now. On March 31, we’ll find out just how much being a bad loser is going to cost his club, Chelsea. The ultimate sanction? Expulsion from the Champions League, which would be perhaps the most remarkable disciplinary step ever taken by Uefa.
One of Europe’s leading referees, the Swede Anders Frisk, has been forced into early retirement in the aftermath of what Jose Mourinho said after Chelsea lost 2-1 to Barcelona at Camp Nou, when he claimed Frisk spoke to the opposition coach, Frank Rijkaard, at half-time.
With the introduction of the National Arts Fund of Namibia Bill in Parliament a few weeks ago, San artists stand to gain from state funding in Namibia. Mike van Graan takes a closer look.
The death toll in an outbreak of the deadly Ebola-like Marburg virus in Angola has risen to 113, with 111 deaths in a northern province and two in the capital, Luanda, health officials said on Friday. Three-quarters of the deaths were children under the age of five, according to the World Health Organisation.
Kyrgyzstan’s new acting head of state, Kurmanbek Bakiyev, said on Friday that fresh presidential elections in the Central Asian nation will take place in June. The announcement came a day after the regime of president Askar Akayev collapsed after thousands of opposition protestors overran the country’s main seat of power in the capital.
We all stood up stiffly and attempted to sing the new national anthem that most of us have not bothered to memorise as yet. ”Nkosi sikelel’ iAfrika,” we sang, slightly off-key in the usual way, under the oppressive weight of the plastic tent that had been hastily erected to protect us from the thunderstorm that never materialised as the ruling party launched its latest book of common sense, entitled Legacy of Freedom.