This week the financially troubled South African Football Association (Safa) got a vote of confidence when LG Electronics decided to become the official supplier to Bafana Bafana and Safa. The sponsorship will see Safa get R10-million a year for the next three years and South Africa host next year’s four-nations LG Cup.
In South Africa it always used to be the case that when the north was strong the Springboks were strong. For north read Northern Transvaal, now officially (as opposed to affectionately) known as the Blue Bulls. The Bulls are heading for their third Currie Cup in a row and the Springboks are the Tri-Nations champions. QED.
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The army of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has prevented 1 100 refugees returning home from Burundi, leaving them stuck in no-man’s-land between the two countries, officials said on Thursday. The trucks had been rented privately and the UN’s refugee agency, UNHCR, was not involved in this impromptu repatriation attempt.
A woman testifying against two men she claims raped her as a child said she couldn’t tell anyone about the assaults because of the closed community mentality on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn. The woman, who cannot be identified, was testifying via videolink from New Zealand against two of seven men on trial in the isolated British territory, home to descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers. The community’s population numbers only 47.
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank have 12 hours to get out of South Africa, the Jubilee Debt Campaign (JDC) said in Pretoria on Thursday. About 150 marchers walked from the IMF building in Park Street to the World Bank building in Pretorius Street to protest againstAfrica’s debt and the institution’s pro-privatisation policies.
A second person has been gored by a black rhino in the Hluhluwe-Umfolozi Game Reserve, KwaZulu-Natal nature conservation authorities said on Thursday.
Ezemvelo KZN Wildlife’s Jeff Gaisford said that in the latest incident Mandlenkosi Magubane (33), one of a group of contract workers clearing alien vegetation in the reserve on Monday, stumbled upon a black rhino which attacked him.
The Treatment Action Campaign — a South African ant-Aids lobby group –and its leader, Zackie Achmat, are joint nominees for the 2004 Nobel Peace Prize, to be announced on Friday. ”There could not be a better recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize than somebody who has contributed to save about 20 million people,” said Dr Eric Goemaere, head of Medicins Sans Frontieres South Africa.
An exclusive analysis of the Gallup International Voice of the People survey for the World Economic Forum (WEF) shows women are more pessimistic than men about the current state of security and prosperity in the world, WEF said in a statement on Thursday. More than 43 000 citizens in over 50 countries across the globe were interviewed in the survey – representing the views of almost 1,2 billion citizens .