Stuart Appleby went four years before returning to the winners-only Mercedes Championships. The way he played on Thursday, he might not have to wait that long. As the Kona winds fooled Tiger Woods and made it difficult on the elite field, Appleby recovered from a tough start to the new season.
Double champion Hiroshi Masuoka on Thursday ruled out his dream of a third successive Dakar Rally crown when his Mitsubishi was struck down by gearbox trouble. The Japanese veteran, who had started the day in front, lost more than an hour-and-a-half on the 355km eighth stage.
Tennis great Martina Navratilova said on Thursday she plans to stick with a decision to retire for good at the end of the year. In a stunning career that has spanned over two decades, Navratilova won 167 singles titles — more than any man or woman — and 173 doubles titles.
The ”big news” to emerge from Thursday’s emergency SA Rugby board meeting in Cape Town is that the appointment of the newest Springbok rugby coach will not take place on Friday January 30 as originally announced. At this stage, no date has been set for the official appointment.
What is the ‘real reason’?” leaders of some of the opposition groups asked in a press release to the world’s deaf and dumb press, ”why South African soldiers, armed to the teeth, are so present on Haitian soil, in Gonaives and Port-au-Prince, in particular? The recent Haiti fiasco has left us with egg on our face.
The Women’s Legal Centre (WLC) is taking the state to court to prove that it has a duty of care towards children at school, especially young girls. If the action succeeds it will set a precedent establishing that the state is liable for protecting children while at school. This could have wide-ranging reverberations in a country where almost a third of girls are raped at school.
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The Democratic Alliance has promised to prove wrong critics who say it is a "white party" by ensuring its 2004 election candidates are selected on basis of their representativeness of South African society, as well as on merit.
The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) lamented on Thursday what it described as a grotesque distortion of its programmes by the media, and denied having any violent or lawless intentions. It said it has no plans to ”launch ‘revenge attacks’ or any other ‘vigilante’ action against abusive white farmers or any other landowners”.
The group atop Parmalat’s collapsed dairy empire went bankrupt on Thursday as investigators pursued revelations that are shaking the Italian establishment. Parmalat meanwhile severed all links with international accountants Grant Thornton, for years the auditors of various group divisions.