The Cape Cobras thrashed the defending champions, the Diamond Eagles, by seven wickets, with Henry Davids and Benji Hector hammering the bowling in a record stand, in their Standard Bank Pro20 match in Kimberley on Friday. Davids and Hector unleashed a feast of free-scoring as their stand of 154 off 96 balls carried the Cobras to a target of 188 with an over to spare.
Benoni Premier United held Maritzburg United to a one-all draw in a Castle Premiership match at the Harry Gwala stadium on Friday night. The visitors have themselves to blame for the draw, having dominated for the better part of the game.
Brazil, the United States, China and the European Commission launched a joint initiative in New York on Friday to promote development of an international market for biofuels which are seen as a viable alternative to fossil fuels. Joined by India and South Africa, they announced at a press conference here the launch of a mechanism to create a world market to spur production
The new minimum wage of R1 090 a month for farm workers is welcome but inadequate, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Saturday. ”The challenge now, as always, is to force the employers to comply, the trade union said.
A Norman Rockwell painting stolen more three decades ago was found in Steven Spielberg’s art collection, but the Oscar-winning filmmaker acquired it legally, the FBI said on Friday. Rockwell’s Russian Schoolroom, worth as much as 000 today, was stolen from a St Louis gallery in 1973.
Springboks Jean de Villiers and Breyton Paulse snatched intercept tries as the Stormers beat the Wellington Hurricanes 30-17 in a Super 14 rugby match on Saturday. De Villiers scored the first and Paulse the last of the Stormers’ four tries as the South African team, previously last on the championship table, took a bonus point from an away win.
Every major enterprise in South Africa would learn in the next few years that it had not invested enough for the growth the country, Public Enterprises Minister Alec Erwin warned on Friday evening. ”The public-sector investment alone in the next five years is R420-billion. This has never ever been attempted in South Africa before,” he said.
A senior director in the Zimbabwe government has been arrested at Harare International Airport for allegedly trying to smuggle diamonds, reports said on Saturday. William Nhara, who is also spokesperson for the ruling party for the Harare province, is still in police custody.
Doctors at Zimbabwe’s main state hospitals have called off a two-month strike for better salaries and working conditions after reaching a compromise with government, the health ministry said on Friday. As the strike escalated the health ministry had to call on army medics to step in and augment skeleton-staff numbers at some hospitals.
Moammar Gadaffi has complained that Western countries have failed to properly compensate Libya for scrapping its nuclear arms programme and as a result countries like Iran and North Korea would not follow his lead. Libya agreed in 2003 to abandon its nuclear arms programme and allow access to international weapons inspectors.