Mamelodi Sundowns have proven wrong the notion that Kaizer Chiefs attract more fans than any other local club. Downs have left South Africans gaping in disbelief with 35 532 votes for participation in the annual Telkom Charity Cup, which is scheduled for the FNB Stadium on July 31.
Six months after Germany’s infamous cannibal Armin Meiwes was jailed for killing and eating another man, one of the country’s most controversial film directors is to make a film of his bizarre life. Rosa von Praunheim’s film is to be entitled Your Heart in My Brain, and is expected to be shot later this year.
Floating hotels are set to help countries in the West Indies cope with the massive influx of cricket followers expected during the 2007 Cricket World Cup. West Indies will be hosting the ninth edition of the World Cup despite fears that some Caribbean countries’ hard-pressed tourist infrastructure will struggle with the event’s demands.
England sensation Wayne Rooney has been offered a five-year contract at Everton, his club announced on Tuesday. Toffees officials confirmed they have offered the 18-year-old striker the biggest contract in the Premiership club’s history and are awaiting a response from his agent, Paul Stretford.
Last week saw the definitive end to the cheap money that refuelled the United States and world economies in the dark days of the dotcom bust, September 11 and the war in Iraq. The US Federal Reserve, the world’s most powerful central bank, increased the federal funds rate to 1,25%. It is the first rate increase in four years. Now the bank’s chief needs to negotiate this rise in rates without triggering a market meltdown.
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A lawyer acting for self-proclaimed victims of apartheid abuses will file papers with a United States court on Tuesday to dismiss a motion before it to throw out their case against a list of multinational companies. US attorney Michael Hausfeld is representing about 32 000 South Africans affiliated to an apartheid debt and reparations campaign.
Seven armed men robbed the Pick ‘n Pay Hypermarket at the Northgate Shopping Centre on Monday morning, West Rand police reported. The men held up 250 staff members at gunpoint for more than two hours. Later, two suspects were shot and injured during a shoot-out with police and seven were arrested.
Iraq’s interim prime minister said on Monday that he will not interfere with an Iraqi tribunal’s right to decide whether Saddam Hussein and his top lieutenants should be executed on war crimes charges. Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said he is willing to abide by whatever the court decides in the trial, which is not expected to begin for months.
Amnesty for Iraqi insurgents
The development of the judiciary and the rule of law must take account of customary and traditional practices, Botswana’s President Festus Mogae said on Monday. Mogae was opening the Southern African Development Community chief justices’ conference on human rights.