Новости за 25.03.2018

DURBAN – The Sharks arrived in Auckland on Saturday ahead of their Super Rugby match against the Blues this coming Saturday and the message to the players from their CEO Gary Teichmann is to throw the kitchen sink at the New Zealand side.

The Sharks lost 46-14 to the Rebels in Melbourne on Friday after having opened their tour the week before with a 24-17 defeat to the Brumbies in Canberra.

Mandela has become a symbol of who we once were, who we became and who we would like to become.

Safety is a priority for all

MELBOURNE – Michael Clarke kept open the possibility he could return as Australia captain Sunday, after a massive ball-tampering scandal in the third Test against South Africa plagued his successor Steve Smith.

CAPE TOWN - TWO DA MPs have condemned calls in the party for its public representatives to better reflect the country's demographics - two weeks before its federal congress.

Gavin Davis and Michael Cardo, close associates of former party leader and Western Cape Premier Helen Zille, in a letter titled “Real progressives reject group think”, said those calling for greater representivity “speak a sort of dialect of ANC-ese, in which terms like racial ‘transformation’ and demographic ‘representivity’ are parroted unself-consciously”. Читать дальше...

AUCKLAND – New Zealand snapped up three wickets on Sunday, including that of Joe Root with the last ball of the day, to pin down an England side battling to salvage a draw from the first Test.

Johannesburg - The Democratic Alliance has urged Gauteng premier David Makhura and infrastructure development MEC Jacob Mamabolo to act against lawlessness and criminality in infrastructure development projects.

Tech billionaire Elon Musk’s estranged father has had a baby with his own stepdaughter, who is 42 years his junior, reports the MailOnline.
The revelation could provide the truth behind the bitter feud that has engulfed one of the world’s richest families.

DURBAN - THE KZN Department of Human Settlements is being sued for more than R5 million by a Durban security company that claims it has not been paid for services rendered.

The management of Cureforce Security, formerly known as Blue Ocean Security, said it had been given the runaround since 2014 regarding payment for providing security services related to land invasions, and had turned to the courts for assistance.

Polokwane - Limpopo police commissioner Lt-Gen Nneke Ledwaba has applauded police officers for their constant hard work to apprehend dangerous criminals which led to the sentencing this week of five criminals for violent and serious crimes.

A much fitter and faster Ludwick Mamabolo will line up for the Old Mutual Two Oceans Marathon in Cape Town on Saturday intent on improving on his best showing at the “world’s most beautiful race”.

Yet to win the 56km ultra marathon in the Mother City, the Nedbank Running Club star believes he is in the form of his life and is looking to run faster than the three hours, 14 minutes and 43 seconds he ran back in 2009.

DURBAN - IT WAS a victory for more than 200 local students who studied medicine abroad when the Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) confirmed this week that they would be allowed to write the coming board exams in South Africa.

In February, the HPCSA had decided to enforce a regulation proposed in 2009.

Pietermaritzburg - A 41-year-old woman has been admitted to hospital in Pietermaritzburg after apparently accidentally shooting herself in the stomach on Saturday evening, paramedics said. 

DURBAN - THERE are similarities in the dramatic demise of former presidents of South Africa and Zimbabwe, Jacob Zuma and Robert Mugabe, but the difference is that Zuma is not bitter.

This is the view of Zuma’s brother, Khanya, who has been spending a lot of time with him at his Nkandla home since he resigned as president last month, after mounting pressure for him to leave.

CAPE TOWN – In a dramatic development on Sunday morning, Steve Smith and David Warner have been stood down as captain and vice-captain by Cricket Australia for the remainder of the Newlands Test for their role in the Cameron Bancroft ball-tampering incident.

Dogs brought in to find UK couple

Melbourne - Sebastian Vettel won a thrilling duel with world champion Lewis Hamilton to steal the season-opening Australian Formula One Grand Prix in Melbourne on Sunday.

DURBAN - Monday, March 19, 2018 might go down in the annals of conservation as the day the northern white rhino became extinct.

Once dubbed the “most eligible bachelor” in the world, Sudan, the last male northern white rhino left standing, died that day.

I followed with interest a debate this week which posed a rather penetrating question: did the Nelson Mandela government set South Africa up for failure? It made for compelling TV viewing as a panel of political commentators dissected the much-vaunted Mandela Miracle of 1994.

Among the critical issues raised were: did the Mandela government make too many concessions to the apartheid rulers? Was the emphasis on reconciliation achieved at the expense of real justice? How much did the settlement... Читать дальше...

DURBAN - PARENTS of children at Wyebank Secondary School plan to act against a teacher who allegedly uses corporal punishment.

The teacher, whose identity is known to the Sunday Tribune, allegedly assaulted pupils for minor transgressions, and not being able to recite Bible verses.

King Goodwill Zwelithini and senior DA members's disregard of an AU boycott lends support and legitimacy to an illegal and brutal occupation.

If you are trying to manage your weight with dieting, you may be wrong, as it can make you fatter. Instead, start eating regularly, suggests a study.

CAPE TOWN – Australia's tour of South Africa is in free-fall. Since the tourists were victorious in the series opener at the beginning of the month, Steve Smith and his team have been under the pump.

The survivors of the Parkland shooting have become targets, with their most prominent critics seeing them as pawns to influence gun policy.

South African business and consumers can breathe easier after ratings agency affirmed South Africa’s investment-grade credit rating