The South African cricket team leave for the West Indies on Wednesday night for a tough eight-week tour that will include four Tests and five one-day internationals. South Africa have a good record against the West Indies, but team coach Ray Jennings has no intention of allowing the team to rest on their laurels.
Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo has defended David Beckham, saying he is the hardest-working player at the club. ”He is the player who works hardest here and he plays in a position which isn’t his,” Luxemburgo said in an interview with sports daily As, published on Wednesday.
Notwithstanding important gains for workers and the poor, economically the capitalist class has been the main beneficiary over the past 10 years, according to the African National Congress’s two partners in the tripartite alliance, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).
Mercantile Lisbon Bank Holdings’s shareholders have given the thumbs-up to the bank dropping "Lisbon" from its name to become simply Mercantile Bank Holdings. CEO Dave Brown says the bank wants to break away from the image of being a bank exclusively for the Portuguese community.
A British barrister who admitted being ”drunk as a monkey” during a Hong Kong court case last year has been let off on a charge of assaulting a policeman, a news report said on Wednesday. Roderick Murray (46) was arrested for assault following a disturbance in a supermarket near his home last October when he allegedly pushed groceries and two bottles of wine to the floor.
More than half of British people have no idea why Easter is celebrated, a survey revealed on Wednesday. Just 48% of about 1Â 000 adults questioned for the Reader’s Digest magazine poll correctly answered the resurrection of Christ.
<img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/199502/Zim_icon.GIF" align=left>A Human Rights Watch group spent more than three weeks in Zimbabwe in December 2004 and February 2005. They found that opposition supporters and other Zimbabweans had been intimidated by Zanu-PF and government officials in the run-up to parliamentary elections.
They may be odds-on favourites with the bookies, but history is against the ACT Brumbies overcoming the Sharks in Saturday’s Super 12 match in South Africa. The Brumbies named a strengthened line-up, including gifted fullback Mark Gerard and Wallaby forwards Owen Finegan, Radike Samo and Jeremy Paul, to start against the Sharks at Durban’s Absa Stadium.
The Stormers have made four changes to their Super 12 rugby team to play the Hurricanes at Palmerston North on Friday. Coach Gert Smal on Wednesday announced two changes in the outside backs and two in the forwards as his team chase their first win in the final match of a four-game overseas tour.
Education is one of the most important ”deposits” the government could make in building human capital and ensuring a better life for all, Western Cape Premier Ebrahim Rasool said on Wednesday, ”because it is through education that we give people the resources and the skills to make something of their lives and, in doing so, to contribute to the lives of those around them”.