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London - London will host this year's World Music Awards, a global event that selects winners based on the strength of their worldwide record sales, organisers announced on Wednesday.

The annual showbiz awards ceremony will be held at the city's Earls Court Arena on November 15.

Previous award recipients include Celine Dion, The Rolling Stones, Britney Spears, Bon Jovi and Kanye West.

"We are thrilled to be bringing the World Music Awards to London, the music capital of the world," said founder Melissa Corken. "The UK is the home of many of the world's greatest-selling artists of all time."

The awards were held in Monaco for 15 years before moving to the United States in 2004 and 2005.

The show will be broadcast on Britain's Channel 4 television on November 22.

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The next best thing in South African soccer after the SAA Supa 8 final on Saturday is the start of the brand new cup - the Telkom Knockout Cup - next weekend.

So whether it is Kaizer Chiefs or SuperSport United who take the SAA cup, the losers on Saturday will have an immediate chance to make amends in the Telkom. With R4m first prize on offer, the new cup to date offers the biggest pay in any domestic competition in Africa.

The Supa 8 offers the first prize of R2m, which is a sum not to be sneered at considering that the winner needs to play just three matches to grab this lolly.

With rumours that the PSL sponsors, SA Brewers, are set to triple the league championship's first prize to R9m, this can only mean that South African soccer is spoiled for choice as far as money-spinning sponsorship is concerned.

Moreso that I haven't mentioned the Absa Cup, the country's biggest knockout cup. This equivalent of the FA Cup - contested for by clubs from as low as the fourth division - normally starts in February.

All these competitions mean a windfall to local players as each competition goes with numerous player incentives. This is all so good for the people who matter, the players. But this endless manna is also an impediment for South African players' need to acquire international experience.

Players from other corners of Africa boast more international experience than our players because they hustle harder for better prospects. Take the new SuperSport United keeper, Denis Onyango, for example.

At just 21, the young Kenyan keeper has already played top flight soccer in Ethiopia. Now, no one is claiming that Ethiopian soccer pays more money than Kenya. But the bright young prospect explains his mission thus: "I went to Ethiopia because I wanted to grow my game. I managed to do that by coming here (SA). I knew I had to start small."

'Doing very little to prove their worth'

How many among the current crop of players in SA can speak like that? How many of our players want to expand their knowledge and experience further by trying to get contracts with Tunisian or Egyptian clubs, which pay more or less the same as PSL clubs? It is a fact that north African football is much more intense and professional to levels close to the best in Europe.

Is it a surprise that African champions Al-Ahly of Egypt will this year meet Tunisian CS Sfaxien in the final of the MTN/CAF Champions League later this month?

Our players have found a comfort zone in the PSL; they have no higher goals. Granted, they do express dreams of playing in England, Spain or Italy but they are doing very little to prove their worth.

Thousands of players in Africa move around the continent to widen their scope to become better players. Take another good example in Joetex Frimpong. Two years ago this veteran Ghanaian striker was with Enyimba FC when this Nigerian club won the Champion League. This year he is playing another final, with his new club Sfaxien.

The next port of call could be Messina or Ascona in the Italian Serie B, and thereafter a contract with a Swiss premier league club. This path leading to Europe and stardom is travelled by hundreds of African players annually, while South Africans are content with the fast cars and the high life PSL is affording them. Match the progress of Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Ghana, Senegal and Nigeria with the position of the current Bafana Bafana squad: different class.

Current PSL top goal scorer, Christopher Katongo of Jomo Cosmos, once said in a radio interview that South African players are no less talented than other African players. He said their problem is that they do not revisit their goals after achieving the earlier ones, which is leaving poverty behind.

Katongo, a Zambian international, was in essence politely saying SA players are not working as hard as they're supposed to. Incidentally, he is the only player Scottish club Dundee United expressed their interest in after visiting Cosmos for their pre-season training in July. It makes you think, doesn't it?

Benni McCarthy is doing well for himself at Blackburn, where his countryman and Bafana Bafana captain Aaron Mokoena is also playing.

Steven Pienaar, Sibusisio Zuma and Delron Buckley are also doing well in Germany, which is a good sign that SA players can hold their own overseas.

But the success of these players raises false hope for SA because each one of them left these shores more than five years ago. Because there was never a new crop of players to acquire overseas contracts in the intervening years, doesn't this point to failure?

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Wellington - New Zealand and South Africa will strengthen cultural relations including negotiating a film co-production agreement, Prime Minister Helen Clark announced on Friday.

Clark, who is also minister of arts, culture and heritage, was speaking after talks with South Africa's Deputy President Phumzile Mlabo-Ngcuka.

Clark said, "We discussed strengthening links across arts, culture, heritage, sport, archives, broadcasting, and tourism. Exchanges and other contacts across government and the cultural sector will also be encouraged."

She said that under a proposed treaty, New Zealand and South African filmmakers would be able to pool resources to create movies and television programmes benefiting both countries financially and culturally.

"Films made jointly by New Zealand and South African producers would qualify as works with national status in both countries, making them eligible for government support and facilitation," Clark said.

New Zealand already has similar cultural agreements with France, Italy and China. - Sapa-dpa

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Johannesburg - Only 23 parking bays were available from a total of 7 650 at 14:46 on Thursday at Johannesburg International Airport's six leading parkades or open parking areas.

The South African Airports Company Acsa said it had been caught off guard by the fast-growing number of passengers at the airport, which becomes OR Tambo Airport on October 27.

An Acsa manager, Kesavan Naicker, said the company was concerned that its existing parking facilities were occupied 85% on average.

An airport spokesperson, Solomon Makgale, said the airport's multi-storey parkade of 4 650 parking bays were 110% occupied during peak time.

More people leave cars at airport

This meant as many as 5 115 vehicles were parked in virtually any open space and even in the middle of the road and on pavements.

Naicker said: "What really caught us unawares the past two years was the fast-growing market in low cost air services and a different ratio between the number of passengers and vehicles."

It seems that increasingly more people leave their vehicles at the airport when they go on travel.

Another 700 under-cover bays are being occupied due to construction work to enlarge the multi-storey parkade, which would add 5 000 additional bays at the end of 2008, Naicker said.

About 600 would already be available by April 2007 and 1 000 more by December.

Short-term solutions

The extent of the problem became clear when Beeld, sister publication of Fin24, sent an SMS on Thursday at 14:46 with the word "parking" to Acsa's 35007 service - only 0.3% (23 out of 7 650) of the existing parking bays were available, and none in the parkade.

Naicker said Acsa's short-term solutions included:

# An additional 600 parking bays (shade 3) had been made available at the airport's cargo section at a lower tariff. It used to be Acsa's staff parking.

# An additional 1 400 bays were made available opposite Emperor's Palace at R10 a day. A taxi service would be available free of charge between the terminal buildings and the parking area.

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Johannesburg - Fists flew in Honeydew on Friday morning as a motorist and a taxi driver climbed into each other in a bout of road rage - on what the department of transport has decreed car free day.

Shouting and screaming, taxi drivers had to be chased from the scene as "chaos" broke out when they pulled in, blocking traffic, to aid their colleague, said Johannesburg metro police.

Bleeding profusely from a cut above his eye, the taxi driver went to the Honeydew police station to lay charges of malicious damage to property, said Chief Superintendent Wayne Minnaar.

With both of his hands cut up, the motorist was taken to the Flora Clinic, he said.

No matter what charges they laid against each other with the SA Police Service, both would be charged by the metro police with affray - breaching the peace by fighting in a public place, he said.

The altercation broke out at 07:00, opposite the Clearwater Mall, said West Rand police spokesperson Inspector Zelda Viviers, but she refused to say what had happened.

"At this stage we can't say what happened... I can't go on allegations at this stage, because nothing can be confirmed."

However, according to Minnaar the fight started at the slipway off Hendrik Potgieter Road at its intersection with Christiaan de Wet Road.

The driver of a white Hiace taxi was in the emergency lane. The driver of a grey BMW wanted to take the slipway.

"The taxi driver wouldn't allow him to turn and there was a confrontation between the drivers," said Minnaar.

"(It was) so intense that a little distance further on, they got out and started fighting physically," he said.

Both threw punches at each other.

The BMW's front windscreen was shattered in the fisticuffs. The taxi's front right window was also smashed.

"Metro police arrived and chased away all the other taxi drivers," said Minnaar. The seven vehicles had been blocking the road and "causing chaos", he said.

"They were shouting and screaming".

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San Francisco - Internet giant Yahoo posted a 37% slump in third-quarter profit on Tuesday and announced it would buy back up to $3bn worth of its stock.

The company said "unanticipated challenges" including stock-option expensing led to third-quarter net income of $159m, or 11 cents a share, compared with $254m in the same period a year earlier.

"While we are tremendously excited about many things happening at Yahoo, we are not satisfied with our third-quarter financial performance," chief executive Terry Semel said in a statement.

Excluding payments to search-advertising partners, Yahoo's net revenue rose 20% from a year earlier to $1.12bn.

Analysts had expected the 11c per share profit, but on higher net revenue of $1.14bn.

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Yahoo disappointed analysts anew by forecasting fourth-quarter revenue in a range of $1.15bn to $1.27bn, underperforming Wall Street investor targets of $1.31bn.

The company also said that it planned to repurchase up to $3bn worth of its outstanding common stock over the next five years, depending on factors including market conditions and the share price.

"We believe Yahoo shares are halfway through a bottoming phase," an RBC Capital Markets analysis concluded, adding the stock would tread water because the weakness revealed on Tuesday had already been factored into the price.

Yahoo had ample free cash reserves and was valued in line with other media companies, according to RBC.

Not exploiting strength

While Yahoo is the largest online search portal, with 325 million users, it has had problems fully cashing in on those visitors, RBC reported.

"I am not satisfied with our current financial performance and I intend to improve it," Semel said in a conference call with investors and reporters.

"We are not exploiting our considerable strength as well as we should be and we are committed to do it better."

Semel announced Yahoo's new Project Panama platform for advertisers went live on Tuesday and "marked a significant turning point" in targeting advertising and would "unlock the potential" of its huge base of users.

Moving into video

The phasing-in of the Panama platform worldwide was expected to be completed early next year.

Yahoo bought Jumpcut online video editing website in September and this week announced a deal to channel CBS television news programs to its portal.

"Our goal is to make video as ubiquitous as text on Yahoo," Semel said. "We are moving quickly to forge partnerships with video producers."

Early on Tuesday Yahoo announced it bought video advertising specialty firm AdInterax and purchased a 20% stake in Right Media advertising exchange.

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Seoul - Satellite images indicate North Korea may be preparing a second nuclear test, officials said, as the US secretary of state headed to Asia on Wednesday with warnings that the North's behavior could spark a regional atomic arms race.

Meanwhile, North Korean leader Kim Jong Il made his first known public appearance since the country conducted its nuclear test on October 9, attending a performance filled with songs praising him, the North's official media reported on Wednesday.

It's unclear what his reemergence could mean, but the reclusive leader has a pattern of dropping out of sight during critical moments when tensions are high only to resurface when tensions wane.

Condoleeza Rice was to arrive on Wednesday in Japan before heading on Thursday to South Korea and later China in efforts to persuade Asian allies and Russia to intensify North Korea's isolation by enforcing sanctions that the UN Security Council approved on Saturday.

The defiant communist regime held huge rallies on Tuesday and proclaimed that UN sanctions amount to a declaration of war, while China - the North's longtime ally and biggest trading partner - warned Pyongyang not to aggravate tensions.

Hastily arranged trip

The UN has condemned the North's atomic blast, and US nuclear envoy Christopher Hill told reporters in Seoul on Tuesday that another nuclear explosion would be "a very belligerent answer" to the world.

The US is concerned that Japan and South Korea may want to develop their own nuclear weapons programmes to counter the threat from North Korea, Rice said while en route to Japan, and part of her assignment on this week's hastily arranged trip is to lessen that temptation.

"Obviously an event of this kind does carry with it the potential for instability in the relationships that now exists in the region," Rice said. "That's why it's extremely important to go out and to affirm, and affirm strongly, US defence commitments to Japan and to South Korea," Rice said.

Her diplomatic language refers to the calculus of nuclear deterrents and to the long-standing US pledge to use its own nuclear arsenal to defend its friends.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has ruled out developing nuclear weapons, but a ruling party policy director raised that possibility soon after the North's October 9 test.

Possibility of another test

On her trip, Rice plans to ask South Korea to expand its role in a US-led programme to search suspicious ships to stop any efforts by North Korea to spread weapons of mass destruction, Alexander Vershbow, the US ambassador to South Korea, said in Seoul.

Concern over a second test stems partly from new satellite imagery showing increased activity around at least two other North Korean sites, a senior US defense official said.

The activity, started a number of days ago, includes ground preparation at one site and construction of some buildings and other structures, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because it involved intelligence gathering. He said although the purpose of the structures is unclear, officials are concerned because North Korea has left open the possibility of another test.

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Pretoria - Rugby personality Naas Botha is one of several parents from Pretoria who are angry and disappointed about the sudden closure of a private school attended by one of his daughters.

The Skills for Life Academy was established last year and accommodated about 100 pupils suffering from hyperactivity and attention deficit syndrome.

The school was finally liquidated last week and parents were informed about it by means of SMS on Friday.

Many parents are angry, saying they don't know where to send their children.

In addition, exams were supposed to have started in three weeks' time.

Parents were informed by the liquidators at an emergency meeting on Monday that they had to pay up R830 000 to prevent the immediate closure of the school.

Parents 'don't know what to do'

One of the parents, on condition of anonymity, said it was terrible to watch the upset pupils removing their private belongings. She said the school's financial problems didn't make sense, as school fees were about R2 350 a month.

Parents were informed about "cash flow" problems in June and they were called upon to pay an additional R5 000 to "save" the school.

Riaan du Preez, father of Stefan, a Grade 7 pupil, said the school's closure was devastating. "My son played Playstation the whole day on Monday. We are in the dark as to what we have to do with him. He must attend high school next year. We don't even know if the education department would issue a certificate."

Botha was also upset. His daughter, Kyla, attends the school. "I'm very disappointed. We helped wherever we could to collect money for the school by means of projects. I cannot comment on the management of the school, but the school really offered a fantastic solution to our children."

Esme Taljaard, owner of the school, said the school was liquidated because the expenses exceeded the income. She said the parents knew about the school's financial dilemma, yet only 40% of them reacted to the request to pay an additional R5 000.

"I'm not a financial wizard, but I have a passion to help these children. My own child, who attended the school, now has nowhere to go."

She said the school did not function royally. The biggest expenses were the salaries of the 17 teachers and rent for the premises. The school had a rental contract that would have expired at the end of December. Taljaard said the rent was initially R20 000, but had gradually increased to more than R50 000, which exacerbated the financial problems.

According to Taljaard an advisory committee consisting of 13 members, including parents, was responsible for the financial management of the school.

She said she was negotiating with the Gauteng education department about the issuing of certificates.

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Johannesburg - SABC head of news and current affairs Dr Snuki Zikalala invited three presidency employees to preview an investigative insert in the SABC TV programme Special Assignment before broadcasting it.

Furthermore, he did this without consulting or informing Special Assignment executive director Jacques Pauw.

This was one of the revelations of the Sisulu report on an alleged blacklist of commentators and complaints to the public broadcaster that were published on the Mail&Guardian website.

The SABC refused to make known the 70-page report by Zwelakhe Sisulu, journalist and former executive head of the SABC, and advocate Gilbert Marcus SC, and attempted unsuccessfully on Saturday night to get an injunction against M&G.

Pauw did not testify before Sisulu and Marcus about the ban on the use of certain political commentators, but about an incident last year when he caught Zikalala showing an insert to members of the presidency, without his (Pauw's) knowledge.

Accusations of spying

The insert on safety at the OR Tambo airport was telecast on July 19 2005 without changes.

The Sisulu report claimed Zikalala did not deny in his testimony that he had shown a copy of that night's programme to three employees of the presidency.

But he was furious that Pauw had "spied" on him.

"When he [Pauw] held a meeting two days later with Dr Zikalala, Dr Zikalala refused to confirm or deny that the documentary had been shown to members of the presidency.

"His primary concern was to accuse Pauw of having spied on him (by obtaining the names of Zikalala's visitors) and threatening him with a disciplinary hearing," the report states.

Sisulu and Marcus said it was clear to them that Zikalala was more concerned about Pauw's "improper spying" on him than on the "underlying issue".

The commission said that the incident indicated that Zikalala was prepared to permit external interference.

President Thabo Mbeki's spokesperson, Mukoni Ratshitanga, said on Tuesday he was not aware of anyone in the presidency who had a meeting with Zikalala.

"It is very difficult to comment if you don't know who are the people being referred to - under what circumstances," Ratshitanga said.

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Mumbai - South Africa skipper Graeme Smith blamed the Brabourne Stadium pitch for his team's 87-run defeat in a low-scoring group match against New Zealand in the Champions Trophy on Monday.

"It's always tough to sit and moan about a wicket when you've lost, but in terms of an international tournament I don't think the wicket was of a good standard today," Smith told reporters.

"I know both Flem (New Zealand captain Stephen Fleming) and I were a bit undecided at the toss. We went on the information we had, and the pitch deteriorated as the day went along. Batting second was very, very difficult."

South Africa, second only behind world champions Australia in the ICC one-day rankings, were bowled out for a paltry 108 while chasing 196 for victory in the day-night match after choosing to field first.

"Obviously today was not an ideal start for us and it does put us under pressure. We have to regroup and maybe look at one or two small things before the next game," Smith said.

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"All credit to Stephen. His knock held their innings together and without him, who knows, we might have been chasing 120-130," Smith said, referring to man of the match Fleming's gritty 89.

"If you look at Stephen's knock he was the core around which they looked to build. He had a few chances that he got away with, but he played superbly on a wicket that was difficult. I think the innings deteriorated from their innings to ours, it got worse and worse."

"Last year we were here in November and there was a lot of dew. Dew was a big factor. The wicket played quite well then. This wicket was going through the top, it was turning almost square."

"It was a spinner's paradise - even I was turning the ball square. On wickets like this spinners are going to play a big role."

Fleming said he was equally unsure how the pitch would behave.

"We were uncertain about how it was going to behave and how much dew there would be later on. We went with what we saw, which was a very dry wicket, and as it turned out it got worse," he said.

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Johannesburg - If the Gautrain transports fewer than 120 000 people annually, Gautengers could have to pay up to R400m every year to keep the project on track.

The Gautrain project leader, Jack van der Merwe, said subsidies, which would have to be paid if the train didn't transport the minimum number of passengers, were estimated at between R200m and R400m.

These figures were mentioned during the visit of the parliamentary portfolio committee members for transport to the Gauteng legislature.

The province would have to pay the subsidy because the national government won't be held responsible.

James Swart, Democratic Alliance MEC and spokesperson for transport said the increasing costs were making the Gautrain project a white elephant: "It's a pet that will be very hungry."

He said considering the high costs at present, it was worrying that it could increase even more.

"The initial Gautrain estimate was R7bn, but it's already costing more than R22bn. If the costs are going to increase even more, how much will Gautengers have to pay to subsidise the project?"

He thought increasing costs would also rob the government of essential investments in other transport environments.

"If we're going to pay so much on subsidies, what's going to happen about financing public transport systems, building roads and maintenance?"

Swart said it was of utmost importance that cost-savings be implemented urgently for the Gautrain project to work.

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Brussels - A Belgian politician who slurred and grinned his way through a television interview following an election victory achieved internet stardom after the clip scored over 430 000 hits on video website YouTube.

The clip was among the top 10 most viewed videos during its first week on the website.

Michel Daerden, the Socialist finance and budget minister for Belgium's southern Walloon region, appeared to have been celebrating his victory in local elections on October 8 when he appeared on the television show.

Daerden, stumbling over his words but wreathed in a permanent smile, prompted a presenter to comment at the end: "You can always count on Michel Daerden to celebrate properly."

The politician was asked later whether he had been drinking to toast his win and was quoted as saying by Vers L'Avenir newspaper: "No more than usual."

Daerden's spokesperson declined to comment on Monday.

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Durban - A double bungle by Intercape Mainliner left 67 passengers stranded for several hours on the N3 near Balgowan on Sunday night. An Intercape coach ferrying the passengers from Durban to Johannesburg broke down near Balgowan after a malfunction of the fan belt.

Traffic officers who attended to the scene certified the coach as unroadworthy after it was found that the fan belt and the pulley had stuck onto the engine. The bus also had oil and diesel leaks, defects which could have led to a fire.

The bus company sent a replacement bus which was also declared unroadworthy by traffic officials.

"The replacement coach had excessive oil leaks, with the hub seal also showing signs of diff oil leaks. There was also an oil leakage from the from the side shafts," said RTI spokesperson, Collin Govender.

Slow leak of diesel

He added that the "department of transport went out of its way and provided another bus - at the department's cost - that was to ferry the passengers back to the Intercape depot in the city.

However the offer was declined by the passengers who "got angry" and demanded to continue with their journey. The passengers were left stranded on the road well into the night as they waited until two buses from Intercape arrived and continued with the journey.

In a written statement, Johann Ferreira, the managing director of Intercape Mainliner, said that the first coach had departed the depot in a "100% condition".

He however said that "upon arrival at the [Durban] station it was noticed it had a slow leak of diesel from the diesel-tank". He said the coach had broken down due to the malfunctioning of the V-belt.

Safe, reliable service

Ferreira said that both coaches had valid roadworthy certificates and had undergone intermediate roadworthy tests in Gauteng last week.

Ferreira apologised for "any inconvenience caused and said that the Intercape management was conducting an internal investigation into the matter. He added that the passengers had been delivered to their homes free of charge and said that those who'd been inconvenienced were being dealt with by the Intercape's client-services department.

"Intercape is dedicated to render a safe and reliable service to his passengers and will do everything in his power to achieve this," he said.

Govender appealed to bus company owners to ensure that their fleet underwent regular servicing and stressed the importance of checking vehicles for defects prior to any journey.

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Johannesburg - The South African Communist Party (SACP) said on Monday that it stands by its general secretary Blade Nzimande in his criticism of the ANC but called for an end to the public spats within the tripartite alliance.

"The extended politburo re-affirmed its belief that much as robust debate is necessary in our intra-alliance engagements, nevertheless these must not be personalised or seek to question the integrity of any partner and its leadership," said the SACP politburo after it met in Johannesburg.

It was responding to recent criticism of Nzimande by the ANC's national executive committee, after Nzimande publicly criticised President Thabo Mbeki's management style.

The politburo said it was "unanimous in expressing its full confidence in the ability and capacity of the general secretary to continue articulating the positions of our party".

It said it remained committed to the tripartite alliance between the ANC, SACP and Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu), and called for an urgent 10-aside meeting of the alliance to discuss unspecified "pertinent matters affecting the movement".

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