Michael Schumacher took a few days off to relax in the Canadian wilderness with his wife and a few friends before trying to call yet another record in formula one his own on Sunday at the Canadian Grand Prix. ”I simply love it when no one is watching what I do,” said Schumacher on his website.
Hestrie Cloete, South Africa’s world champion high jumper, began her vital European campaign on a positive note when she cleared 1,98m and registered her best height of the year on Tuesday. Ockert Cilliers also had his first opportunity to brush shoulders with the top-bracket 400m hurdlers.
Tiger Woods, coming off three top-four finishes in the past month, enters next week’s US Open excited about his game and confident he will play well at the year’s second major championship. ”I’ll spend this week fine-tuning my game, but I know I’m on the right track,” Woods wrote in his monthly e-mail message to fans.
Ireland have named an unchanged starting line-up from the one that clinched the Triple Crown with a win over Scotland back in March for Saturday’s Test against South Africa in Bloemfontein. Coach Eddie O’Sullivan expressed confidence on Tuesday that Ireland could make history by winning on South African soil for the first time.
South African football giants Orlando Pirates and Santos have been drawn against Cameroonian clubs in the African Confederation Cup fourth knockout round. Pirates will play against Sable Batie, and Santos are pitted against Canon Yaounde. The first-leg matches will be played on the weekend of July 9 to 11.
Until recently, your average record company executive probably reacted to the sound of a cellphone blaring out its ring tone with the same weary resignation as the rest of us. But ring tones now account for 10% of the world’s music market, generating a staggering -billion. So, shouldn’t they have their own chart?
About a month ago I interviewed Minister of Finance Trevor Manuel and asked him which people have the greatest impact on his thinking and his approach to policy-making. ”[President] Thabo Mbeki” came the reply, without a second’s hesitation.
The answer to my follow-up ”who else?” took much longer. His answer was Britain’s leading liberal economic thinker, Will Hutton. I was surprised.
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As South Africa celebrates 10 years of democracy, signs of its increasingly vibrant diversity are to be found everywhere. But the changes meant a complete makeover for Fordsburg — one of the oldest suburbs of Johannesburg, now a home for thousands of new immigrants from Bangladesh, Pakistan and India.
The government should measure the success of its land reform process on whether productivity of the land is maintained after a change in ownership, the Democratic Alliance said on Tuesday. DA MP Kraai van Niekerk claimed that the present reform projects have left a trail of failures.