South Africa captain Aaron Mokoena said on Tuesday he loves a British-style physical contest on the pitch and reckons his experience in England will serve him well against Scotland. The Blackburn Rovers defender is set to lead out Bafana Bafana against the Scots at Pittodrie on Wednesday in a warm-up game for both sides.
An English municipal councillor held on to his seat after the election was decided by the toss of a coin, the BBC reported on Friday. Christopher Underwood-Frost tied with Liberal Democrat John Birkenshaw after each polled 781 votes for the ward of West Lindsey district in Lincolnshire, eastern England.
British Prime Minister Tony Blair’s party was locked in a struggle for power in Scotland with a pro-independence party on Friday and suffered losses in local elections in England. Blair, whose popularity has slumped due to the Iraq war and a series of political scandals, is expected to announce next week he will leave office by July.
Prime Minister Tony Blair faced the final electoral test of his decade in power on Thursday, a vote that could set Scotland on course for a referendum on independence from Britain. Blair’s Labour Party is expected to suffer heavy losses in the elections to local councils, the Scottish Parliament and Welsh Assembly because of discontent over the Iraq war.
Fifteen people were killed in a head-on collision between a taxi and a bakkie on the R61 near Aberdeen in the Eastern Cape on Monday morning, police said. Inspector Stephanie Smith said the drivers of both vehicles were among the dead. Twelve people were injured and were being treated in the Aberdeen hospital and the Midland hospital in Graaff-Reinet.