An Australian magazine has offered to pay $1,25-million to anybody who can prove that there is a Tasmanian tiger still alive in the wilderness. The last Tasmanian tiger, or thylacine, is believed to have died in a Hobart zoo in 1936 but since then almost 4 000 sightings of the animal have been reported.
Any visitor to France who thinks the country’s drivers are pushy, rude and prone to parking wherever their cars might conceivably fit had confirmation from an unlikely source this week — the drivers themselves. According to a recent survey, six out of 10 French drivers believe their fellow motorists are impolite and aggressive behind the wheel.
Listed hotels and gaming group Sun International plans to dispose of its 38,6% stake in fellow hotel group City Lodge Holdings for R627-million, equating to R38,50 per share. Once the transaction is completed, BEE individuals and groupings will hold more than 25% interest in Sun International and its subsidiaries.
Almost two years have gone by without any results since Minister of Communications Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri announced in Parliament that disadvantaged South Africans stood in line to get SIM cards and cellphone handsets, which would be supplied free of charge.
The Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union (Popcru) has welcomed the appointment of a one-person commission, to be headed by Judge Sisi Khampepe, to make recommendations on the future of the Scorpions. However, it has backed the incorporation of the unit into the South African Police Service (SAPS).
Free State Premier Beatrice Marshoff said on Wednesday she was shocked by the murder of Noby Ngombane, a top official in her office. Ngombane was the head of the Free State’s policy monitoring and evaluation unit in the premier’s office. He was the premier and the provincial government’s spokesperson, as well as a close confidant of the premier.
The Zimbabwe Supreme Court has granted the country’s attorney general leave to appeal against the early release of a group of alleged South African mercenaries held there, their lawyer said on Wednesday. ”The men will be staying in Zimbabwe,” attorney Alwyn Griebenow said. It is not yet clear when the appeal will begin.
The South African cricket team leave for the West Indies on Wednesday night for a tough eight-week tour that will include four Tests and five one-day internationals. South Africa have a good record against the West Indies, but team coach Ray Jennings has no intention of allowing the team to rest on their laurels.
Real Madrid coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo has defended David Beckham, saying he is the hardest-working player at the club. ”He is the player who works hardest here and he plays in a position which isn’t his,” Luxemburgo said in an interview with sports daily As, published on Wednesday.
Notwithstanding important gains for workers and the poor, economically the capitalist class has been the main beneficiary over the past 10 years, according to the African National Congress’s two partners in the tripartite alliance, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu).