United Cricket Board of South Africa president Ray Mali has warned that anybody trying to derail the transformation of South African cricket will not succeed. Mali was reacting to a newspaper report saying a new board of directors for Cricket SA excludes himself and chief executive Gerald Majola.
The South African Rugby Football Union, Boland and Western Province (WP) have identified four key areas that will be targeted in an effort to eradicate violence at club rugby matches in the two provinces. The four areas to be targeted are crowd control, player discipline, referee performances and development of club leadership.
Zimbabwe’s rebel cricketers have agreed to the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) plan for arbitration in their dispute with the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. The ICC had proposed that a three-man tribunal, sitting in Zimbabwe, resolve the dispute.
Hundreds of thousands of Eritrean children are living in extreme poverty due to prolonged drought, the aftermath of border conflict with neighbouring Ethiopia and its impact on the country’s economy, according the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). An estimated 425 000 children under 14 years of age are affected.
The government should be bolder in its approach to making South Africa’s flagship industrial initiative at Coega in the Eastern Cape a ”sure thing”, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. The area is currently defined as an industrial development zone, but the DA said it should be defined as an export processing zone.
The last surviving member of the infamous 1980s Stander gang will appear before a parole board shortly for consideration of his possible release from jail. Allan Heyl (52) was a member of the Stander gang, led by former police captain Andre Stander, that committed a string of robberies in and around Johannesburg in 1983 and 1984.
A radical Muslim group that triggered panic over polio immunisation in northern Nigeria said on Tuesday it remains opposed to the vaccine, despite it being passed as safe by a hardline state government. Polio vaccination was suspended in Kano state last year after claims that the drugs had been laced with chemicals to make African girls infertile.
Smiling broadly, Filipino truck driver Angelo de la Cruz enjoyed his first taste of his newfound freedom on Tuesday after his life was spared thanks to the hasty withdrawal of Manila’s tiny military presence from Iraq. ”I am fine and relaxed. I am extremely happy and I can’t say anything more than this,” De la Cruz said.
The Democratic Republic of Congo’s transitional government, consisting of former wartime rivals for power, has agreed on draft legislation regarding nationality and citizenship, officials said on Tuesday. Nationality issues were among the causes of wars that raged across the vast Central African country from 1996.
The Food and Allied Workers Union has voiced fears of ”Zimbabwe-style land invasions” should an attempt by a black economic empowerment consortium to buy stakes in the wine industry succeed. The union opposes plans of the group to acquire a multimillion-rand majority stake up for grabs in the KWV restructuring deal.