The African continent has much to learn from the successes of Asia, President Thabo Mbeki told reporters in Pretoria on Tuesday. He was speaking after the signing of an agreement at the Union Buildings on the avoidance of double taxation between South Africa and Malaysia.
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki on Tuesday launched a countrywide programme to combat malaria, the top killer of pregnant women and children under the age of five in the East African nation. The National Malaria Programme includes distribution of free insecticide-treated nets, treatment and developing strategies to combat the disease.
As long as they remain overwhelmingly the most popular soccer clubs in the country, Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates should be entrenched as participants in the annual Telkom Charity Cup. Who says so? None other than loquacious, controversial one-time Premier Soccer League public-relations officer Abdul Bhamjee.
The Inkatha Freedom Party Youth Brigade has officially denounced, ”with contempt”, utterances made by the party’s national chairperson, Dr Ziba Jiyane, at a weekend IFP rally. The action is expected to be among a variety of personal attacks engineered by the party’s spin doctors.
Listed hotel and gaming group Sun International will proceed with the sale of its entire 38,6% stake in City Lodge Hotels to Sun International shareholders for a total of R627-million, in exchange for repurchasing its own shares from them, the company said on Tuesday.
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Friendship and camaraderie was the reason for payments made by Schabir Shaik to former deputy president Jacob Zuma, the Durban High Court heard on Tuesday in Shaik’s corruption and fraud appeal bid. Shaik’s defence also called his 15-year jail sentence ”shockingly inappropriate”.
West Indies fast bowler Tino Best has been fined 50% of his match fee for breaching the ICC Code of Conduct during his country’s second Test match against Sri Lanka. Best was found guilty of conduct contrary to the spirit of cricket by ICC Match Referee Mike Procter in a hearing on Tuesday in Kandy.
New Zealand’s Parliament on Tuesday called on the national cricket team to abandon a tour to Zimbabwe, in a symbolic gesture a day after the team left for Africa to prepare for the series. Prime Minister Helen Clark introduced the resolution, which expressed grave concern at human rights abuses in Zimbabwe.
Shane Warne insisted on Tuesday that England had paid the price for getting caught up in the hype surrounding the Ashes after Australia’s crushing 239-run first Test win at Lord’s. ”I think what certain players said in the build-up was important. It was surprising to hear some of them come out with such strong opinions,” Warne wrote in his column in The Times.
The secret of British Prime Minister Tony Blair famous all-year healthy glow has been revealed — his spends almost twice as much on make-up as the average British woman. Figures released by Downing Street show that Blair spent more than £1 800 (R20 900) on make-up and make-up artists over the past six years.