SOUTH Africa will meet New Zealand in the semi-finals after overturning a 7-0 deficit to oust Canada 17-7 in their Cup quarterfinal of the IRB World Sevens Series in Stellenbosch. The boks went down 7-0 early on in the game when Nik Witkowski scored under the posts. In other Cup quarterfinals, favourites Fiji edged Samoa […]

THE number of air crashes in the past week has risen to three, with at least five people killed in two separate aircraft crashes in Mpumalanga on Friday. On Monday 10 people died in a plane crash in Germiston, one of the worst civil aviation accidents in almost twenty years. The Civil Aviation Authority said […]

PERSISTENT rain forced the abandonment of the first of five one-day matches between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka at Bulawayo on Saturday. Zimbabwe were 65 for one after 14.5 overs in reply to Sri Lanka’s 284 for nine when the match was called off. Three half centuries and steady scoring down the order took Sri Lanka […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rustenburg | Saturday 6.30pm. FRENCH-born striker Alain Amougou scored the goal that set up Sundowns for a 2-0 victory over Free State Stars in the Rothmans Cup final here on Saturday. Dreadlocked Amougou struck after 37 minutes with a shot from just inside the penalty area that took a deflection off Zambian defender […]

DONOR countries meeting here on Thursday pledged $3,7-billion in quick-disbursing financial assistance to Africa over the next three years to help boost growth and reduce poverty. Representatives from some 20 countries and international organisations pledged the aid under the Strategic Partnership with Africa (SPA), hitherto known as the Special Program of Assistance. The budget support […]

Ann Eveleth The European Union Foundation for Human Rights will continue to fund civil society projects, legal advice offices and precedent-setting legal cases until September 2003 in terms of a recent “in principle” agreement between the EU and the South African government, EU ambassador Michael Laidler said this week. The foundation recently secured R33- million […]

Shaun Harris TAKING STOCK The most profitable investment decisions are often contrary, made against the market trend or in the face of prevailing fashion. At the moment it seems that this thinking can yield value in the vehicle market. It turns out, according to WesBank CE Ronnie Watson, that motor dealers are currently looking for […]

Fiona Macleod Six cheetahs from the De Wildt Cheetah Research and Breeding Centre, one of South Africa’s most reputable breeding centres of endangered species, were exported this week to a safari park in China that has been universally condemned by animal welfare organisations. John Wedderburn, of the Asian Animal Protection Network, describes a recent visit […]

Ruben Mowszowski The rift between science and religion and how it might be healed has been one of the hot topics at the Parliament of World Religions. But there is a sense of a discussion taking place too late. A marriage of a kind – one between spirituality and technology – has already taken place […]

Will the current fixation on Mediterranean cuisine be replaced by something from deeper south? Probably not. The myth that Africans love their red meat swimming in an ocean of oil has not done much to promote local flavours in a world that is obsessed with cholesterol cutting. And the myth that Africans like their vegetables […]