Новости за 19.03.2018

CAPE TOWN – The Springbok Sevens team will assemble in Stellenbosch on Tuesday with two huge challenges looming early next month.

INTERNATIONAL - Zimbabwe has changed its empowerment law to limit majority ownership by state entities to only diamond and platinum mines and not the entire mining sector as in previous legislation, according to a government notice.

West Indies coach Stuart Law says Wednesday's match against Scotland is essentially a final for his team, after Monday's win over Zimbabwe.

TWICKENHAM - Captain Dylan Hartley said England had suffered a "big bump on the road" to next year's World Cup but insisted they would bounce back from their mauling in the Six Nations.

DURBAN - The headline match in round eight of the Varsity Cup lived up to its billing when trans-Jukskei rivals Tuks and UJ produced a 30-30 thriller in Pretoria.

ALBANY - Former "Sex and the City" star Cynthia Nixon said on Twitter Monday that she'll challenge Gov. Andrew Cuomo in New York's Democratic primary in September.

INTERNATIONAL - Following in Facebook and Google’s footsteps, Twitter is set to ban a range of cryptocurrency advertising, including initial coin offerings, token sales, and wallets Sky News reported. 

CAPE TOWN – “How are you, Mr Rabada?” said one superstar, AB de Villiers, to another.

PRETORIA - Billionaire coal baron, Ramesh Joe Singh, has lost his bid to stop the Companies and Intellectual Property Commission (CIPC) investigating allegations that he hijacked a company which owns a multi-million golf estate in Emalahleni.

Durban - Last week reports claimed that monkeys were intruding into the RK Khan hospital in Chatsworth, Durban, and stealing food from patients, staffers and people in the area.

The RK Khan team, including the hospital’s chief executive, Dr Prakash Subban, met Steve Smit, the co-founder of Monkey Helpline, a non-profit organisation that helps educate people about monkeys.

MBOMBELA - A 45-year-old man accused of raping his parents’ domestic worker and forcing her to perform sexual acts on his dog, on Monday told the Bronkhorstspruit Magistrate’s Court, east of Pretoria, that he has a romantic relationship with his alleged victim.

INTERNATIONAL - Apple Inc. is designing and producing its own device displays for the first time, using a secret manufacturing facility near its California headquarters to make small numbers of the screens for testing purposes, according to people familiar with the situation.

France coach Didier Deschamps believes midfielder Paul Pogba "can't be happy about what he's going through" at Manchester United.

Britain and the European Union on Monday reached a landmark deal on a transition phase that will see London follow the bloc's rules for nearly two years after the Brexit divorce.

The APEX awards come in tandem with a series of recent innovations announced by the airline

Durban - A Reservoir Hills resident is warning others of a potential danger on the M19 after a rock was thrown at his BMW on Saturday night.

It was the second incident on the M19 within 24 hours.

MIAMI - Indian Wells champion Naomi Osaka will have little time to celebrate in her first career victory with the Japanese drawing eight-time champion Serena Williams in the first round of this week's Miami Open.

Many people remain unaware, blissfully or otherwise, of long-term risks, which aren’t just restricted to “heavy drinkers”.

JOHANNESBURG - The Black Business Council (BBC) on Monday criticised the state-owned airline South African Airways for allegedly awarding a multi-million rand security contract to a UK-based company as an affront to preferential procurement and the Black Industrialists Programme.

In intriguing research, a team of scientists may have discovered the earliest age at which a person can reason logically.

JOHANNESBURG - One of the flagship events of the financial advice world is the annual Investment Forum held at Sun City recently. South African and international fund managers present to a gathering of 800-odd financial advisers over a two-day period, covering all the different asset classes, and elaborate on their stock picking.

Their widely divergent views on which shares to hold are noteworthy. Some fund managers express themselves strongly against a company, while others will convince you of the merit of buying the same share... Читать дальше...

LONDON – South Africa dropped one spot to sixth in the World Rugby Rankings released on Monday.

JOHANNESBURG - President Cyril Ramaphosa will lead a South African delegation to the 10th Extraordinary Summit of Heads of State and Government of the African Union (AU) in Kigali, Rwanda, the Presidency said on Monday.

DUBLIN - World Rugby is looking into the appointment of a Romanian referee for a crucial match between Spain and Belgium that determined whether Romania qualified for the 2019 Rugby World Cup.

Bella Hadid admitted that she struggled to accept her features, and particularly didn't like her thin eyebrows.