The Bledisloe Cup is on the line Saturday when Australia and New Zealand meet in the first Tri-Nations match of the season. Australia are sitting pretty as the All Blacks engage in deep soul-searching to regain their mental toughness as Australian coach Eddie Jones brings out the verbals.
Western Province and Free State will close South Africa’s premier schools rugby tournament when they meet in the final game at Nelspruit on Saturday. Province are on course for a hat-trick over the Free Staters, who they have beaten in two Craven Week finals in two years.
Lord Robin Butler, delivering his review of intelligence on weapons of mass destruction on Wednesday, looked like the amiable Oxford head of college he has become. But the former Cabinet secretary’s findings throw a harsh light on British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s conduct of government, as well as on the performance of the intelligence agencies.
They attract millions of tourists seeking to improve their swing in the sun. But the rush to coastal golf courses around the arid southern Mediterranean is posing a grave threat to its limited fresh water stocks. Each of an estimated 200 courses built around the Mediterranean consumes the same amount of fresh water as a town of 12Â 000 people, according to a recent report.
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is heading for a major showdown with the government over Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel’s plans to corporatise the Public Investment Commissioners (PIC), which manages public sector pension funds worth more than R300-billion. Government is running up the national debt to keep up its payments into the state pension fund.
A recent survey revealed that more and more people are boycotting companies that behave unethically. George W Bush tops the list of brands that have sparked consumers’ ire, but it also includes Coca-Cola, Benetton, Budweiser and more. Here’s your consumer’s guide to all the big baddies.
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The right-wing author of the bestselling book <i>The Great South African Land Scandal</i> — which urges resistance to land reform, branding it "an assault on South African agriculture" — holds an Internet doctoral degree from an unaccredited United States university. In some states of the US it is a criminal offence to use degrees bestowed by Pacific Western University, author Philip du Toit’s alma mater.
The Botswana government on Thursday dismissed as ”suspect and mischievous” testimony given by a former colonial commissioner in support of a court claim by the San Bushmen seeking to return to the Central Kalahari Game Reserve. The Bushmen were evicted from the reserve in 1997.
The Ugandan military has achieved a major breakthrough in its battle with anti-government rebels after capturing a high-ranking rebel commander described as ”the heeart and spirit” of the rebellion raging in the north of the country. ”Brigadier” Kenneth Banya was captured following a skirmish at Okidi.