Bafana Bafana beat defending Concacaf Gold Cup champions Mexico 2-1 in a thrilling upset. It was the first time Mexico had lost a game in the tournament since 2002. Philip Evans and Elrio Van Heerden scored for South Africa, which dealt Mexico just its fourth loss in the competition since the tournament began in 1997.
Australia continued their home dominance over the Boks, scoring three first-half tries in ten minutes on Saturday and defeating the Springboks 30-12. The win extended a seven-year winning streak for the Wallabies over South Africa in Australia. The Springboks’ last win in Australia was in Perth in 1998.
A Maine man arrested when police showed up to break up a New Year’s Eve party at a friend’s house has filed a lawsuit, arguing he has a constitutional right to get drunk on private property as long as he doesn’t cause a public disturbance. Eric Laverriere was locked in a cell for nine hours until the effects of the alcohol wore off.
Nineteen people were sentenced to up to two-and-a-half years in prison each for tipping off hashish dealers at Copenhagen’s hippie enclave that police were heading their way. Group members either used cellphones or walkie-talkies to tip off the vendors, who rushed to hide the drug.
Leaders of the world’s Group of Eight (G8) top industrial nations on Friday wrapped up three days of talks overshadowed by the London terror attacks with a joint vow to fight terrorism. G8 leaders also made pledges on extra development aid and urgent measures to combat global warming.
Morocco has begun airlifting rice, powdered milk and other food stuffs to Niger as part of an effort to ease hunger pangs afflicting one in four of the West African state’s 12-million people, a government official said on Friday. A Moroccan-staffed rural clinic to treat malnutrition has also been erected in the hard-hit central Maradi region.
Public Protector Lawrence Mushwana is expected to report to Parliament on his probe into the so-called Oilgate affair before month-end, his office said on Friday. The investigation, into claims about the alleged misuse of public money involving state oil company PetroSA, should be concluded in the next two to three weeks, a spokesperson said.
The bomb attacks in London caused panic among South Africans on Thursday, resulting in stiff congestion on major phone routes between South Africa and London. Telkom said its network successfully routed 500Â 000 calls to the United Kingdom between noon and 2pm on Thursday, reported ITWeb on Friday.
Cape Town taximen have been deliberately sabotaging the city’s rail services in order to gain customers, the commission of inquiry into violence in the Western Cape minibus taxi industry heard on Friday. Metrorail’s regional manager handed the commission a document he said contained ”very sensitive information” on the issue.
Women who plan to testify against actor and comedian Bill Cosby in another woman’s sex assault lawsuit will not have their identities shielded by the court, a judge ruled. A former Temple University employee is alleging that Cosby drugged and then fondled her. The other women make similar allegations.