The football world has obviously become too small for Real Madrid, with the Spanish giants now planning to open theme parks in the United States and China. Real president Florentino Perez told Friday’s AS newspaper that the club have already had talks with officials in Miami and Beijing.
”South African rugby is feeling rather buoyant at present, and there’s good reason for this. Apart from the usual management scandals and a little car trouble, it looks like fair weather and plain sailing — unless you count the fact that the All Blacks are waiting at Newlands on Saturday,” writes Rob Davies.
Springbok rugby is set to be thrown into more turmoil on the eve of the crunch Tri-Nations Test against the All Blacks with a potentially divisive power struggle between SA Rugby vice-president Andre Markgraaff and Bok coach Jake White.
Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10Â 000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The animated star of Tomb Raider games unflinchingly braves explosions on a giant TV screen that hangs, incongruously, above the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
Violinists playing sweetly beneath her, the video game heroine Lara Croft has two guns blazing and the full attention of 10Â 000 people at the Hollywood Bowl. The animated star of Tomb Raider games unflinchingly braves explosions on a giant TV screen that hangs, incongruously, above the Los Angeles Philharmonic orchestra.
KwaZulu-Natal health minister Peggy Nkonyeni on Thursday denied media reports that the department’s head, Professor Ronald Green-Thompson, had been fired. Her statement came after provincial newspapers and the South African Broadcasting Corporation quoted Green-Thompson as saying that he had been sacked.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Thursday night invoked an Article of the labour law to advise unions and coal producers on a wage settlement. ”This basically means that the CCMA can tell the negotiating parties what settlement they should adopt in the wage dispute,” a union spokesperson said.
A Cape Town businessman has been sent to prison in the United States after pleading guilty to the illegal export — to Pakistan via South Africa — of American-made items that can be used in nuclear weapons, South African Broadcasting Corporation news reported on Friday.
South Africa’s bid commission for the 2010 Gay Games is confident the country has a better chance than competitors Germany and France to stage the Games in Johannesburg. Bid marketing and communications officer Paul Tilly told the Mail & Guardian Online South Africa is the ideal place for a number of reasons.
It’s okay for Marc Lottering, to trade in coloured stereotypes, but, if outsiders make jokes or generalise about that group, they run the risk of being taken to the Human Rights Court, writes Mike van Graan.