A change to formula one’s qualifying system will be put to a vote this week, International Automobile Federation (FIA) spokesperson Richard Woods said on Friday. Woods, the FIA’s director of communications, said the teams unanimously agreed to change the current set-up.
The Force was with the last Star Wars movie when Revenge of the Sith raked in a record R107-million in its first wave of North American midnight screenings, distributors said on Friday. The movie also did what no other movie in history has accomplished — sold R326-million-worth of tickets in a single day.
People attending Saturday’s imbizo (meeting) called by Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi will be allowed to enter the Princess Magogo Stadium with sticks, shields and knobkieries, KwaZulu-Natal police said on Friday. Buthelezi has come under fire for calling the imbizo.
It was a sign of life from a boy reaching out to his long-lost mother. Yet in a country scarred by war, his words dug deep into wounds gouged more than a decade ago. "Greetings to my mom … from your son Rade," read the scrap of paper the boy sent in the mail along with his photograph.
Patrick Vieira began FA Cup final week with a spiky reference to his opposite number at Manchester United, Roy Keane, and their confrontation in the tunnel at Highbury before the Premiership fixture on February 1. Keane made a cutting remark about Vieira’s attitude towards his birthplace, Senegal, at Highbury.
After the blur of a breathless final afternoon last weekend came brutal reality. The Championship’s three reluctant new chairpersons awoke to the grim facts of relegation with a tortuous season of cutbacks, contingency plans and financial restructuring ahead. The trauma will not be confined to the season’s finale.
Sir Alex Ferguson left Old Trafford without saying goodbye to the fans after Manchester United’s last home game of the season. There would have been little point on Tuesday because most supporters left after the 3-1 defeat by Chelsea without saying goodbye to Ferguson or even waiting for the players’ lap of honour.
The Inkatha Freedom Party was ”delighted” on Friday when the Pietermaritzburg High Court overturned a conviction and 10-year sentence for rape handed down to its national organiser Albert Mncwango. ”The political enemies of Mr Mncwango had contrived to bring these accusations against him,” said IFP spokesperson Musa Zondi.
Hurricane Adrian was downgraded to a tropical storm after making landfall on Friday in El Salvador, quickly losing wind speed but still packing torrential rains and flash-flood danger, as thousands of evacuees await news they can go home. Hurricane wind speeds at one point reached 140kph when Adrian was over the Pacific Ocean.
The Eurovision song contest, an annual extravaganza of Euro-pop kitsch, has taken a decidedly political turn for its 50th edition this Saturday in Ukraine. The Eurovision contest, first held in 1956, is often associated with music of questionable merit, bizarre costumes and marked political bias in the voting.