Listed gaming and hotel group Gold Reef Casino Resorts has ended talks with brewing giant SABMiller over its acquisition of SABMiller’s 49% stake in fellow gaming group Tsogo Sun Holdings, Gold Reef said in a statement on Monday. According to Gold Reef, SABMiller said its stake in Tsogo Sun is not for sale.
A month after running a negative review of John Irving’s new novel, The Washington Post has run a negative review of that review. Irving’s Until I Find You, an 824-page novel based partly on the author’s relationship with his father, was panned in a July 10 review by Marianne Wiggins as a ”mass of lazy, unrefined writing”.
Mauritania’s self-declared head of state named a new prime minister to replace the former premier who resigned along with his Cabinet after last week’s coup. A judge also freed 21 people who had been detained for plotting against the ousted regime. Junta leader Colonel Ely Ould Mohamed Vall named Sidi Mohamed Ould Boubacar as prime minister.
South Africa’s Retief Goosen scored 32 points to capture his first PGA Tour title this year by winning the International. After rain postponed Thursday’s first round, 63 players were to take the course for the final two rounds on Sunday. There normally was a second cut where the field is reduced to the top 36 players and ties, but in an effort to play 36 holes, there was no third-round cut.
Sex offenders tracked by the state are banned from public hurricane shelters in Florida under a new policy that allows them to weather the storms in prison instead. The policy was created to keep sex offenders and predators away from children, said Robby Cunningham, spokesperson for the Department of Corrections.
Uncapped halfback Kevin Senio has been called into the All Blacks squad for the Tri-Nations rugby Test against Australia on Saturday, replacing the injured Byron Kelleher. Kelleher suffered a head injury in Saturday’s 22-16 loss to South Africa in Cape Town.
At least three of the four suspects in the July 21 attempted bombings on the London subway and a bus were born in East Africa, where al-Qaeda-linked groups still operate and may be growing in strength, according to a new assessment by counterterrorism experts.
Justin Gatlin swept away opposition to win the 100m sprint on Sunday and added the world championship title to his Olympic gold medal. The overwhelming favourite didn’t even have to dip for the line to clock 9,88s and hold a massive .17 second margin over silver medalist Michael Frater of Jamaica.
Has Andre Markgraaff already resigned from his post as South African Rugby Union deputy president, or not? This was the question being asked late on Sunday amid conflicting media reports earlier in the day. While some of these suggested the controversial Markgraaff had already left his post, others reported he would make his final decision only on Monday.
Australians awoke on Monday to the queasy feeling that cricket’s Ashes may be headed back to England after a gut-wrenching two-run defeat in the second Test to square the five-match series. Australians sat on their edge of the seats on Sunday evening watching their team’s compelling tail-end fightback