Replacement back Francois Steyn knocked over two late drop goals to give South Africa a nail-biting 22-19 win over Australia at Newlands in Cape Town on Saturday in the Tri-Nations opener of 2007. Trailing 10-19 after 44 minutes, the Springboks rallied to score 12 unanswered points in the second half.
At Youth Day celebrations in East London on Saturday, President Thabo Mbeki questioned whether this generation is living up to the tradition of past youth leadership. Also, African National Congress deputy president Jacob Zuma called on the party’s youth to go to its upcoming policy conference and be clear on what they want.
More than 2Â 000 jobs in road construction and maintenance in Gauteng will go to young people, Gauteng Premier Mbhazima Shilowa told a Youth Day rally at the Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday. Meanwhile, Zimbabwe’s Movement for Democratic Change said the ”spectacular courage” shown by the youth of South Africa on June 16 1976 inspires Zimbabwe’s youth.
The development and empowerment of South Africa’s youth must form one of the focal points of the country’s reconstruction and development programmes, President Thabo Mbeki said in his weekly online letter. But, he questioned whether the youth is well organised to play the role of drivers of progressive change.
Six men, including a former Zimbabwe army officer charged with allegedly plotting a coup against President Robert Mugabe, will appear in the High Court next Friday on treason charges, their lawyer said on Saturday. The six were late on Friday refused bail at the request of state prosecutors by the High Court.
A car buried half a century ago in a time capsule had been transformed into a hunk of junk by the time it was unveiled on Friday as part of Oklahoma’s Centennial. The concrete vault was built in 1957 and meant to be opened this year to celebrate Oklahoma’s Centennial as an American state.
A convicted double murderer in Texas is holding a joke contest on the internet so he can use the winning entry as his last words when he is sentenced to die by lethal injection on June 26. Convicted of murdering two neighbours in 1991, Patrick Knight has spent the past 16 years on death row in Texas.
Everyone looks forward to summertime — but computers hate it. That’s because along with summertime comes a computer’s worst enemy: heat. Too much heat can cause hard drives to fail prematurely and entire systems to become slower and less stable.
France is to begin flying humanitarian supplies into eastern Chad on Sunday to help tens of thousands of Sudanese refugees and Chadians displaced by violence in Darfur, an army spokesperson said on Friday. The humanitarian air bridge will likely only function for several weeks.
Two Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) soldiers went on trial before a military court hours after being arrested for the murder of a prominent radio journalist, an official said on Friday. A local media rights group, Journalists in Danger, condemned the summary trial, saying that no serious inquiry had been made.