Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Saturday welcomed the South African Rescue team at the Johannesburg International Airport as they returned home from Iran, where 30 000 people were killed in the earthquake. She thanked the team and told them that South Africans were proud of them.
Italian magistrates and officials from the powerful Securities and Exchange Commission are examining the role of lenders to Parmalat — which collapsed into administration last month following the disclosure of an â,¬8-billion hole in its finances. These lenders include some of the US’s largest financial institutions.
Numb with shock or with tears streaming down their faces, around 35 relatives of some of the 148 people aboard the Egyptian charter plane that crashed into the Red Sea gathered yesterday at Paris’s main airport where the aircraft had been due to touch down at 8am.
A senior Zimbabwean Minister, Special Affairs Minister John Nkomo who is also chairperson of the ruling Zanu-PF, has admitted that the seizure of thousands of white-owned farms has failed to benefit large numbers of poor black farmers, many of whom have failed to take up the land that was grabbed.
What do you get if you add a couple of Chevrolets, Jaguars, a BMW and a Fiat Uno with an Alfa Romeo, a Beetle, a BMW R1200C motorcyle <i>and</i> a Defy stove? Why, J.P. Barlow’s Hudson Terraplane special, of course. His latest creation started work as a 1937 Hudson Terraplane, but apart from the body shell there’s not much left of the original car.
Over the next few weeks we expect to hear plenty more about motorcycle champ Alfie Cox at the Dakar Rally. While we’re waiting we decided to find out a little about his four wheeled exploits this year past. So, how’s it going, Alfie?
South African driver Giniel De Villiers, in a Nissan, and French motorcyclist David Fretigne, riding a Yamaha, won the third stage of Dakar 2004, a 9km loop around on Saturday.
After lashing the South African attack mercilessly en route to scoring the ninth quickest Test century, West Indian Chris Gayle insisted that the four match Test series against South Africa was still alive.
China braced itself yesterday for a return of the deadly pneumonia-like Sars virus after genetic tests on a suspected patient in the southern city of Guangdong showed a ”high correlation” with the virus’s gene sequencing, according to government-controlled media.
Libya’s prime minister said his country wants to be rewarded for opening up to nuclear inspections and stressed that the United States must lift sanctions by May 12 or his government won’t have to pay -million to each family of the 1988 Lockerbie bombing victims, according to an interview published on Friday.