"The average age on this tour," the organiser said, "is 24,7." I guess my 41, Kate’s 33 and the "Spanish woman with an unpronounceable name" must have raised the average of what looked like an abundance of 16-year-old boys considerably. Andie Miller joins a bus load of youngsters on the scenic route to Swakopmund.
CRASH! Boom! Bang! Frighten the horses! Cause persons of a delicate disposition to scream! So what’s this then? A bird? A plane? No! It’s <i>Daily Sun</i>, the biggest-selling daily in South African history. The latest All Media and Products Survey figures show our noisy two-year-old is read daily by more or less the same number of people as read ALL the dailies in the Independent Newspaper Group COMBINED!
Despite the doomsayers and predictions of a recall for Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, the charismatic populist recorded a convincing victory in this week’s referendum. Chavez is a people’s candidate who casts himself as a latter-day Che Guevara. He is not without fault, but the referendum outcome carries an important global message.
Double medallist Roland Schoeman was back in action at the Olympic Games on Thursday morning to qualify through the men’s 50m freestyle heats along with relay gold medallist Lyndon Ferns. Meanwhile, the South African men’s hockey team lost their third pool match against The Netherlands 3-2, having led 2-1 at half-time.
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Three opportunistic tries by the Lions in the dying minutes of the match against England’s Saracens handed the Currie Cup side a convincing 43-27 victory. Lions substitute hooker Schalk Brits began the Lions’ comeback in the 29th minute of the second half after the Ellis Park outfit had found themselves trailing 27-22.
South Africa’s Roland Schoeman qualified at the top of the table in the men’s 50m freestyle semifinals on Thursday evening in Athens. He won the first semifinal in a time of 21,99 seconds. The eight fastest swimmers from the two semifinals go through to the finals on Friday evening.
A recent crackdown on men who frequent prostitutes in Zimbabwe has left human-rights activists there a little confused. Is the new approach a victory for those who claim that it is unfair to punish sex workers, if similar penalties are not handed down to their clients? Or is it simply a diversionary tactic by a beleaguered police force that fears it has lost credibility in the public eye?
”Yes, I came to understand Zanu-PF and its principles, why they went to war to fight Ian Smith, why they need to take land now and teach Tony Blair a lesson.” The M&G speaks to two graduates of Zimbabwe’s youth camps, where recruits are being trained to carry out a ”vigorous” campaign for Zanu-PF in next year’s election.
Daaronder in piesangland, Michael Sutcliffe, the king of Durban, is at it again. In his City Manager’s newsletter last week, Sutcliffe accused Durban’s Daily News editor Dennis Pather and senior reporter Veven Bissetty of ”pursuing a campaign to discredit the municipality”. Not only that, but he hinted they were in league with the devil, ag, the Democratic Whatever.
Five weightlifters have tested positive for banned drugs and have missed their chance at Olympic glory, officials said on Thursday. They are male lifters Viktor Chislean of Moldova, Zoltan Kecskes of Hungary and women Sule Sahbaz of Turkey, Pratima Kumari Na of India and Morocco’s Wafa Ammouri.
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