Three South Africans — world champion Jacques Freitag, hurdler Surita Febbraio and 800m runner Werner Botha — all recorded fine wins at the African Permit International athletics meeting held in Dakar, Senegal, on Sunday. An enthusiastic crowd of 50 000 spectators attended the meeting at the Leopold Senghor Stadium.
Phil Mickelson made a 20-foot birdie putt on the fourth play-off hole on Monday to win the BellSouth Classic over Rich Beem and give the defending US Masters champion momentum heading to Augusta. Mickelson, Jose Maria Olazabal, Beem, Jobe Brandt and Arjun Atwal tied at eight-under 208 after the final round to set up the play-off.
Jacques Kallis compiled an unbeaten 109 on Monday and South Africa secured a comfortable draw against the West Indies on the fifth and final day of the opening cricket Test at Bourda. Kallis, who hit 15 fours, passed 7 000 runs on his way to his 21st century, which took 409 minutes and comprised 346 deliveries.
Diversified industrial group Imperial Holdings has concluded a black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction in which it will sell a 7,25% stake in the company to Lereko Mobility, a BEE company owned 51% by a broad-based BEE consortium, for the equivalent of R96,85 per Imperial share, or a total of R1,4-billion.
Panic briefly gripped Windsor after Prince Charles postponed his wedding by 24 hours to Saturday but organisers and hoteliers managed to juggle their plans and now expect an even busier day. Britain’s future king and his partner, Camilla Parker Bowles, altered the date on Monday to enable Charles to attend the pope’s funeral on Friday.
The mandate of the peacekeepers patrolling a buffer zone between the warring parties in Côte d’Ivoire has been extended for one month by the United Nations Security Council. The short extension, approved late on Monday, will allow the UN and France to monitor progress at peace talks between the government and the rebels.
SA Rugby has confirmed that two referees will be brought before a disciplinary hearing following remarks made about an administrator. The two top rugby referees allegedly brought the game into disrepute after criticising Griquas president Baby Richards in a newspaper article.
A police inspector died and two officers were injured when their police helicopter crashed into a house in Lakefield on Monday. Operational Response Services spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said Inspector Anton van Vuuren, of the South African Police Service air wing in Johannesburg, died at the scene.
A lactating woman in Myanmar has volunteered to breastfeed a pair of endangered Bengal tiger cubs recently born at a Yangon zoo and separated from their aggressive mother, <i>The Myanmar Times</i> reported.
A family holiday to Namibia ended in tragedy on Tuesday last week when a church minister from Modimolle (Nylstroom) fought in vain to rescue his youngest brother from the jaws of a crocodile, News24 reported. On Thursday, police divers called off the search for Mannetjies Coetzer, a businessman from Heidelberg.