Laurie Fisher signed up to coach the ACT Brumbies for another two years on Wednesday, admitting the Super 14 side faced a challenging time with key players Steve Larkham and George Gregan reaching the end of their careers. ”It’s an important next couple of years as we come to the end of all our first time players,” said Fisher.
Clouds of searing heat belched out of an Indonesian volcano early on Wednesday as scientists anxiously waited for a feared eruption that has forced thousands of villagers from their homes. Despite apparently reduced activity at Mount Merapi, which produced major clouds of gas and ash on Monday, experts warned that the volcano remained highly dangerous.
South Africa’s vibrant game auctions replete with animals ranging from rhinos to giraffes are being seen as a key element to the country’s conservation efforts. As game hunting as well as camera safaris and eco-tourism earn mega bucks, more and more people are being lured to open game farms.
An X-ray of Kamil Abdel Qader’s lungs show a lower third that is entirely scarred — lasting damage from the poisonous gas that rained down on the Iraqi Kurdish town of Halabja in 1988. Doctors say he needs to get a fist-size chunk of tissue removed from his damaged lungs if he is going to survive, but he still considers himself the lucky one.
It would not take an expert cryptographer to discern the true mission of the train that rolled out of London Waterloo on Tuesday night bound for the Cannes film festival. Though the train — named the Da Vinci Code, and carrying Tom Hanks, Ian McKellen and Audrey Tatou — was apparently trying to break the world record for the longest international non-stop rail journey, some suggested it was little more than a glorified publicity machine.
Max Ozinsky, widely credited with being the strategic mastermind behind the Western Cape African National Congress, is weary of attracting attention. The provincial party’s only white ANC office-bearer, he prefers the shield of collective leadership. The Mail & Guardian spoke to the man who has often been described as an intractable revolutionary.
Typhoon Chanchu churned its way towards Hong Kong and Southern China on Wednesday, causing the cancellation of some flights and ferry services as the region battened down to prepare for the storm. The typhoon, which killed 41 people when it tore through the Philippines, is the strongest on record to enter the South China Sea in May.
<i>Rolling Stone</i>, the American music and pop culture magazine, is celebrating a milestone this month with the release of its 1Â 000th issue. For 39 years, the magazine has straddled the divide between countercultural and conventional journalism, with covers that have depicted and even created modern-day icons.
A 25cm fossil meteorite has been discovered in the 145-million-year-old Morokweng crater, about 766m beneath the Kalahari Desert in the north-west province of South Africa, the University of the Witwatersrand announced on Wednesday.
Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania president Motsoko Pheko made a qualified apology on Tuesday for comments the Human Rights Commission condemned as anti-gay. The South African Broadcasting Corporation quoted Pheko as saying the PAC did not care if it failed to get votes from gays and lesbians as they faced extinction and could not bear children.