Tragedy struck the first round of the World Under-19 Rugby Union Championship in Durban on Saturday when Ireland forward John McCall died in hospital after being injured against New Zealand, officials said. International Rugby Board officials refused to give the cause of death.
A Wildebeest side packed with senior Sharks players, who were released by coach Kevin Putt to play in this game, always had the measure of the Border Bulldogs in their Vodacom Cup rugby game before taking the honours 42-0 at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday evening.
Supersport United scored two goals –one in each half — to beat Wits University in their Premier Soccer League game played at Bidvest-Milpark on Saturday afternoon. United led 1-0 at the break. United’s dangerous striker Abram Raselemane scored in the 35th minute.
The prospects for cocoa farmers in West Africa have not appeared rosy in recent years, what with declining cocoa prices and reports of exploitive labour practices on their properties. Organisations like the International Institute for Tropical Agriculture have been working to assist these farmers, however.
United States Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry says he believes people are born gay but are not guaranteed the right to marry within their own gender. ”I think it’s entirely who you are from birth, personally,” Kerry said in an interview to be broadcast on MTV.
It’s time to stop taking television addicts for granted, Microsoft chairperson Bill Gates told advertising executives. Gates said on Friday advertising executives need to prepare for a world in which people will watch TV how and when they want to — and advertisers will need to figure out how to get commercials to them anyway.
Norway will give South Africa about R235-million under a five-year bilateral cooperation agreement, the Department of Foreign Affairs said on Friday. The two countries’ foreign affairs ministers met on Friday for the annual consultations that were set out in the memorandum of understanding of 1996 between the two countries.
The Pentagon on Friday warned British firms winning contracts under its ,4-billion Iraqi reconstruction programme that they would be thrown out if they failed to give a minimum 10% of the work to United States small businesses. Ideally, the US would like 23% of subcontracting work handed to American businesses.
Kenya’s coalition government, elected to power in a blaze of optimism after decades of corruption and autocracy under Daniel arap Moi’s presidency, is in the grip of a crisis over its attempts to reform the country’s democracy. A faction close to President Mwai Kibaki stormed out of a constitutional conference this week.
Mel Gibson’s controversial but lucrative depiction of the final hours in the life of Jesus has moved a Texas man to seek redemption by confessing to the murder of his pregnant girlfriend. This is the latest in a chain of revelations since the film’s release in the United States a month ago.