What we all expected has now been made official, Jake White will not be coaching the Springboks again after his contract expires at the end of the year. White’s last game in charge will be South Africa’s end of year tour to Wales where they will play the Wales National Team and then the following week play the Barbarians. After the success of the Springboks winning the World Cup, it was time to start moving forward but instead, only 11 days later, backward steps are already being taken. Read the rest of this entry »
As the wheels of democracy continue to turn, we are fast approaching an important juncture in our young democracy. The Africa National Congress (ANC) will hopefully decide who will take the reigns of the party and be the presidential candidate in 2008. Many a newspaper have written about this and speculated to no end about the battle for the ANC. Some have written books about the current President, Thabo Mbeki, and others have sat in bars and taverns discussing who will be their president for the next 4 years. So who is your President? Read the rest of this entry »
Eskom have come out and asked all people and businesses across the country to try an conserve as much electricity as they can due to the shortages of electricity currently being experienced in South Africa. But it looks like there are not too many people listening to this plea from Eskom. Read the rest of this entry »
Today Eskom has warned that there will be country-wide load shedding for the whole day.
The reason being that, there are a number of power station not operating and also a problem is being experienced with the countries power supply from Mozambique. Eskom say that load shedding will be done in two hour phases throughout the day. Read the rest of this entry »
The victorious Springboks touched down at OR Tambo International Airport this morning to be greeted by thousands of South Africans from across the country. The scenes were amazing as people from all walks of life all joined together to welcome home their heroes. The question now is, what next for the Springboks? Read the rest of this entry »
Congratulations to South Africa for winning the Rugby World Cup in France yesterday. It had been 12 years since South Africa had won the trophy and now finally it can return home.
The Springboks managed to beat England 15 - 6 in a tightly contested game last night. Before the game, South Africa were favorites to win and they lived up to their favorites tag and rarely looked like loosing the game over the 80 minutes. Although England had a try disallowed, the Springboks always looked comfortable and with the accuracy of Percy Montgomery’s kicking, the result was never in doubt. Read the rest of this entry »
The South Africa rugby team takes on England in the Rugby World Cup Final tomorrow and we here at In The News.co.za would like to wish captain John Smit and the rest of the team all the best.
The whole country is fully behind you and we know you will not let us down.
Today was a sad day for South Africa as we woke up to the news that one of the countries greatest musicians, Lucky Dube was murdered in Johannesburg last night after what is thought to be a failed hijacking.
This just adds more to the ugly picture of the violence found in South Africa. The statistics of the number of murders in the country are shocking! Currently standing at 50 people per day. Read the rest of this entry »
Last night, the Springboks walked their way into the Word Cup final by beating Argentina 37 - 13. This is the first time that South Africa have been in the final since winning the tournament in 1995.
South Africa will play England in the final on Saturday in what surely should be a guaranteed win for South Africa but with the way this World Cup has been going one can never be sure what is going to happen. Who would have thought that Argentina would beat France in the first game, Australia would be beaten by England or New Zealand would loose to France? Read the rest of this entry »
As we had all thought, the Reserve Bank have raised interest rates again by another 50 basis points which means that the prime lending rate in South Africa is now 14%.
This is the highest the rate has been since September 2003. Prior to this announcement a few hours ago, many economists across the country thought that the Reserve Bank would not change the interest rates but I guess they were all wrong and are now in shock as most South Africans will be today. Read the rest of this entry »
