Jose Mourinho admitted that Chelsea are ”almost there” in their quest for consecutive Premiership titles after they defeated Everton 3-0 on Monday. The Blues now need to avoid defeat in just one of their last three league matches to keep the championship trophy in the Stamford Bridge cabinet.
One of Britain’s leading fee-paying schools is to offer classes on happiness to combat the malaise in society caused by materialism and celebrity obsession, its head teacher announced on Monday. "We are introducing classes on happiness," said Anthony Seldon, master of Wellington College, in Crowthorne, Berkshire, west of London.
Zimbabwe manager Andy Pycroft is confident the cricket team will put behind it the politics and infighting at home and play well in the West Indies. Zimbabwe will meet West Indies in seven one-day internationals starting on April 29 in Antigua. The tour originally included two Tests, but the Zimbabwe government withdrew the team from all Tests this year.
The JSE was on the advance in noon trade on Tuesday, with rampant commodities prices driving resources stocks higher. Futures-related activity saw buying spread to the rest of the market, making for across-the-board gains. At 11.58am, the all share index was up 1,38%.
Benefit Recovery Services (BRS) has been awarded the biggest surplus apportionment and unclaimed benefits project to date, in terms of size, to locate and communicate with over 500 000 former members of the retail motor industry in order to distribute pension monies.
A black economic empowerment company led by Mutle Mogase, chairperson of Vantage Capital, has bought a 28% stake in the Goedemoed, Vredendal, grape and tomato farming business run by Abrie Botha, a leading figure in Western Cape agriculture.
Chad’s President Idriss Déby, heeding international calls to protect refugees from Sudan’s volatile Darfur region, has backed off a threat to expel them, despite blaming Khartoum for last week’s deadly rebel attack on the capital, a United Nations official said.
Australia’s inspirational playmaker Stephen Larkham was ruled out of rugby for four to six weeks on Tuesday in a dent to the ACT Brumbies Super 14 hopes and the Wallabies’ Test preparations. The five-eighth said a scan had revealed he had suffered a grade two hamstring tear in the Brumbies’ loss to the Waratahs last Saturday.
The Iraqna Mobile Phone Company made a fresh plea on Tuesday for the release of two Kenyan telecommunication engineers kidnapped in Baghdad three months ago. Iraqna, a subsidiary of the Cairo-based Orascom Telecommunications, ran advertisements in most Iraqi dailies on Tuesday asking the captors of the two engineers — Moses Munyao and George Noballa — to free them unharmed.
Five people were arrested on Monday in connection with the murders of Crazy Monkey — Straight Outta Benoni actor Brett Goldin and a friend Richard Bloom. Their bodies were found in a field next to the off-ramp from the M5 freeway to Klipfontein road in Mowbray, Cape Town, early on Monday, Superintendent Billy Jones said.