Fires tore through parched forests and swallowed villages across Greece, bearing down on villages near Ancient Olympia in the south a day after the government declared a nationwide state of emergency. More than 50 people were dead. ”We’re going to burn alive here,” one woman told Greek television from the village of Lambeti.
A man believed to have been the last person to see a boy before he was badly mutilated two weeks ago was found dead in Phela village in North West province on Friday, police said. The man’s body was found about 500m from the cattle post where he worked and where he last saw the boy.
A man was rescued on Saturday after he fell down a gorge on Table Mountain, shortly after an American tourist was rescued in the same spot, ER24 said on Saturday. ”In an action replay of today’s ‘slip and fall’, a second person fell in almost exactly the same spot,” said ER24 spokesperson Mark Stokoe.
A government assault on the finances of axed deputy minister of health Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge has left her broke, the <i>Sunday Times</i> reported. She has been forced to accept money from her mother after her salary was docked to reclaim the cost of a trip to Spain, and now the government is making more financial demands.
In the beginning the Party created the Freedom Charter. The country was without reform and whiteness was upon the face of the mining deeps. And the spirit of the Party moved across foreign waters, waiting. And in 1994 the Party said let there be light, and there was light. And the Party saw the light, and that it was good.
For some time now there has been a sustained discourse on ”succession”. Because Thabo Mbeki is constitutionally prohibited from another term as president of the country, the person likely to succeed him must be ”identified” in advance in order to facilitate a smooth transition. Or so we are told, writes Monde Nkasawe.
It was an employee at the WPP advertising business who so succinctly categorised Google, the search engine, as a "frenemy". Nowhere is this ambiguous status more obvious than in the search engine’s relationship with newspapers. Google’s draining of the online ad market through the organisation of other people’s content infuriates the media, yet the power of the search engine to refer traffic to your website is undeniable.
Frank Lampard capped his week to remember by sending Chelsea to the top of the Premier League as former leaders Manchester City were beaten at Arsenal on Saturday. Elsewhere, Birmingham won 2-1 at Derby, West Ham drew 1-1 with visitors Wigan, Everton drew 1-1 with Blackburn and Aston Villa beat Fulham 2-1.
Felipe Massa claimed pole position on Saturday for Sunday’s Turkish Grand Prix, beating championship leader Lewis Hamilton of McLaren-Mercedes into second place. Brazilian Massa, who also took pole last year at Istanbul Park, registered a time of one minute, 27,329 seconds for the 5,338km circuit.
Griquas recovered from a lethargic first half where they were trailing 22-24 against the Griffons to win their compulsory Currie Cup friendly rugby match in Welkom on Saturday 64-34. Spearheaded by Tobie Botes who first shined at flyhalf and then at scrumhalf, the Kimberley side simply overran their opponents.