Lock Victor Matfield is a doubtful starter for the Springbok rugby team to tour to Australasia next month. Matfield sustained a knee injury on Saturday against Wales and will undergo an examination on Monday. Their first match will be on July 17 against a combined South Pacific Island team at Gosforth Park in Sydney.
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Eight consortia, including SA cellphone giant MTN, are in the race for a second cellphone operator licence in Saudi Arabia. Revenues in the lucrative Saudi market, which has about eight million mobile users with a growth rate of about 30%, are predicted to soar to ,9-billion by 2007.
The South African Municipal Workers’ Union (Samwu) said that it may pursue industrial action should its dispute with the South African Local Government Association (Salga) not be resolved.
Inkatha Freedom Party president Mangosuthu Buthelezi said that the IFP has been called upon by history to become the voice of the African National Congress’s bad conscience. Buthelezi said the ANC could not control itself, or hold itself accountable.
Aggrey Klaaste, former editor of the Sowetan, was laid to rest at the Avalon Cemetery in Soweto on Saturday, SABC radio news reported. Klaaste died of a lung condition last Saturday at the age of 64. The editor widely credit with the concept of ”nation building”.
The day after Michael Moore’s Fahrenheit 9/11 was released in American cinemas, it was announced on Saturday that a festival devoted to films debunking Moore’s own work will be staged later this year in Texas. The American Film Renaissance will feature up to 10 films, among them Michael Moore Hates America.
Cassini, the most expensive robot space probe ever built, will this week make its final crucial approach to Saturn after a seven-year, two-billion-mile journey across the solar system. On Thursday, the -billion spacecraft will slip between two of the planet’s rings and ignite its main motors for a critical 96-minute burn.
Claims that British women were drugged before they took part in one of a series of ”mass orgies” on Mediterranean cruise ships that left tourists ”battered and Bruised” are being investigated by Greek authorities. Three Greek Cypriots believed to be the organisers of the debauched ”fantasy boat” trips have been arrested.
When Betty Dukes became a check-out counter assistant at the world’s biggest supermarket company, it was for five dollars an hour and the chance of moving up through the company ranks. She got neither. Instead she got a starring role in an -billion legal battle that has earned her a reputation as the new Erin Brockovich.