Новости за 29.05.2016

I SHOULD have taken note when fate alerted me that Saturday night’s Springbok team announcement was going to be totally different to what I’ve experienced in previous years.

Henricho Bruintjies produced the fastest time by a South African over 100m in Italy on Sunday night, but it won’t be a new national record.

Malcolm Marx is an “unbelievable player”, but Scarra Ntubeni and Bongi Mbonambi have been rewarded with Springbok call-ups for their consistent form, says Allister Coetzee.

Popular Cape restaurant Rafiki’s will be shutting its doors for good after the owner was unable to extend his seven-year lease which ends next year.

SA urgently needs to protect its fish stocks and ocean economy, write Terry van der Walt and Mervyn Naidoo.

Myan Subrayan spent 12 years in New Zealand before returning to SA and he advises people not to rush to other countries, especially without solid job prospects.

SABC COO Hlaudi Motsoeneng's decision to ban violence from the airwaves is not only manipulative of its viewers and listeners, but stupid, says Peter Davis.

The SABC’s 90 percent local quota will only work if there’s more new music being played, writes Buhle Mbonambi.

Allister Coetzee got it right on most fronts - picking on form, including experienced players, and ushering in a new era for Springbok rugby, says Ashfak Mohamed.

A group of ANC supporters were singing and chanting outside the entrance to an EFF rally in uMlazi, where party leader Julius Malema is scheduled to speak.

A group of about 25 ANC supporters were singing and chanting outside the entrance to an EFF rally in uMlazi, Durban, where EFF leader Julius Malema is scheduled to speak on Sunday afternoon.

In a 'blitzkrieg' of 30 minutes Gift Leotlela, 18, won the 100m as well as the 200m in Palafrugell, Spain.

Real Madrid coach Zinedine Zidane lavished praise on Cristiano Ronaldo after he appeared to struggle through the Champions League final.

Seventeen people have been killed after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, emergency service said.

Ruthie Longley’s children have fallen behind with their schooling and she has had to send her older daughter to the US to study because they have been branded illegal immigrants.

Four puppies rescued from a Chinese fishing vessel docked in Cape Town for alleged illegal fishing are being put up for adoption.

Four luxury cars belonging to one of SA’s most controversial businessmen were auctioned as Sars tightened its squeeze on him to recover money he owes.

South African Charne Bosman won the women's Comrades Marathon in a time of 6 hours 25 minutes and 55 seconds in the 89km ultra-race.

The Red Ants are not a vigilante group but those who have found themselves at the receiving end of the men in red know them as destructive force. Don Makatile reports.

The parents of a Japanese boy, 7, missing in the mountains confessed they had left him as a punishment and he did not get lost as first claimed.

The EFF claimed the party had not violated any laws in holding political rallies addressed by leader Julius Malema, but that the ANC was doing its best to thwart EFF attempts to campaign in KZN.

David Gatebe won the men's Comrades Marathon in a record time of 5 hours 18 minutes and 19 seconds in the 89km ultra-race from Pietermaritzburg to Durban.

“If you’re good enough, you’re old enough.” That was Springbok coach Allister Coetzee’s response as to why he picked young Sharks flyhalf Garth April.

After talking about his body-building career, Arnold Schwarzenegger shared a few secret nuggets about his illustrious career at the Sandton Convention Centre.

Zimbabwe is so desperate for cash it has cut the retirement age for members of its enormous uniformed forces from 60 years to 50.