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/ 24 October 2007
The Newcastle funeral service for South African reggae star Lucky Dube has been cancelled, spokespersons for the family said on Tuesday. ”The family wishes to respect [his] final wishes to have a small and dignified funeral,” they said in a statement.
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/ 24 October 2007
Air pollution is so bad in Cairo that living in the sprawling city of 18-million residents is said to be akin to smoking 20 cigarettes a day. According to the World Health Organisation, the average Cairene ingests more than 20 times the acceptable level of air pollution a day. A 2002 World Bank report estimates that pollution causes $2,42-billion-worth of environmental damage each year, about 5% of Egypt’s annual gross domestic product.
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/ 23 October 2007
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African National Congress (ANC) chairperson Mosiuoa Lekota is being one-sided in calling for a clampdown on T-shirts showing support for ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma while defending T-shirts bearing President Thabo Mbeki’s image, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 October 2007
Partly due to an increased allocation from the government, the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC) has achieved the highest financial turnover, R247,8-million, in its history, the council’s CEO said on Tuesday. Dr Olive Shisana was addressing the launch of the HSRC’s 2006/07 Annual Report in Pretoria.
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/ 23 October 2007
Cricket South Africa have announced details under which Zimbabwe will put a representative side in all three professional franchise competitions in South Africa this summer. Zimbabwe have undertaken to field their strongest team in all matches.
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/ 22 October 2007
The conduct of certain people attending the funeral of former South African ambassador to Indonesia Norman Mashabane was ”despicable”, said the African National Congress (ANC) on Monday. The funeral took place in Phalaborwa on Saturday. ”We deplore the behaviour of these unruly elements. There is no room for such people in the ANC,” the party said.
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/ 21 October 2007
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France’s first hosting of rugby’s World Cup will leave mixed emotions on the home front. The six-week long tournament was superbly organised, the grounds were packed, and there was colour and drama aplenty. But the script that had the French hosts taking on the mighty All Blacks in the final in Paris failed to materialise.
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/ 21 October 2007
France’s President Nicolas Sarkozy’s first looming Cabinet crisis has been triggered neither by the announcement of his own divorce nor by the transport paralysis caused by the past week’s public servants’ strikes. It comes down to rugby.
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/ 19 October 2007
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Argentina ended the World Cup the way they had started it, running in five tries to tame France 34-10 in an ill-tempered third-place playoff at the Parc des Princes on Friday.
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/ 19 October 2007
A Nobel Prize-winning scientist who reportedly claimed black people are less intelligent than white people has pulled out of a British book tour and gone home, his publicist said on Friday. James Watson won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1962 for his part in discovering the structure of DNA.