Leading New Zealand rugby referee Paul Honiss says the All Blacks should chat more to referees, believing it would boost their chance of winning tight Tests. Honiss encouraged senior All Black players to follow the lead of veteran Wallaby halfback George Gregan, who has a reputation for persistently getting in the ear of referees, writes the New Zealand Herald.
OR Tambo International Airport should be expanded and not closed down to make way for a new airport in order to cope with the huge expected increases in air-passenger flows in the province, the Airports Company South Africa (Acsa) said on Tuesday.
South Africa’s ambassador to the United Nations was robbed at gunpoint at his son’s home in Johannesburg on weekend, the latest in a string of attacks on prominent South Africans, a newspaper reported on Tuesday. Dumisani Kumalo was ambushed by three armed men in the driveway of his son’s house on Saturday night, it was reported.
Australian Prime Minister John Howard had a bad trip on the campaign trail on Tuesday, falling to his hands and knees in front of television cameras shortly after an opinion poll predicted his ouster. Howard, who turns 68 on Thursday, stumbled as he swept into a radio station in the western city of Perth.
First National Bank (FNB) is strengthening its competitive position on the African continent with the official launch of FNB Mozambique in capital Maputo on Tuesday. This follows FirstRand Bank Holdings’s acquisition of 80% shareholding in Banco Desenvolvimento e Comércio (BDC) — a bank based in Maputo.
The weather came to India’s rescue as they drew the first Test at Lord’s on Monday with England just a wicket away from going 1-0 up in the three-match series. Bad light, which forced an early tea, with India, at 282-9, still 98 runs shy of their imposing victory target of 380, initially gave the tourists a dramatic reprieve.
It would be no exaggeration to suggest that Orlando Pirates went through the turbulent process of navigating a succession of troubled and tempestuous waters for much of the past season. Now, having lost the services of five of their most cultured players, the Buccaneers give every impression of attempting to guide a rudderless ship as they prepare to take on Tottenham Hotspur.
As Zimbabwe’s supermarkets rapidly continue to empty, Finance Minister Samuel Mumbengegwi has pleaded with shoppers not to hoard goods, reports said on Tuesday. Shoppers have cleared supermarkets of most basics following massive state-ordered price slashes earlier this month.
The JSE was hovering at tight levels at midday on Tuesday with the all-share a tad lower (-0,17%) and nervousness in the market adding to some profit-taking as the local bourse awaited data to be released this week in the hope of gaining some direction. At 12pm, the all-share index was 0,17% lower.
Six foreign medics convicted of infecting Libyan children with HIV arrived in Sofia on Tuesday after being freed by Libya under an accord with the European Union. Their release ends what Libya’s critics called a human rights scandal and lifts a barrier to attempts by the long-isolated North African state to complete a process of normalising ties with the outside world.