The plight of Southern Africa’s earliest inhabitants, the San Bushmen, comes to the fore on Monday when Botswana’s High Court begins hearing a landmark land case in the Kalahari desert. A group of 243 San Bushmen are challenging their resettlement from the Central Kalahari Game Reserve, one of the world’s largest sanctuaries.
New Zealand all but booked themselves a place in the NatWest Series final with a five-wicket win against the West Indies at Sophia Gardens in Cardiff on Saturday. Only a freak combination of results can now deny Stephen Fleming’s men a place in the July 10 Lord’s showpiece of this one-day international triangular event.
South Africa’s Retief Goosen led after the third round of the European Open in Dublin on Saturday and is still on course for consecutive victories following his US Open triumph last month. The South African is playing in his first tournament since capturing his second US Open title two weeks ago.
The Blue Bulls kicked off their defence of the Currie Cup in convincing fashion at Loftus on Saturday, beating the SWD Eagles 75-10. The champions led 29-10 at the break and never looked like losing this one. The Bulls, who secured their bonus point in the first half, scored 11 tries.
Western Province (WP) kicked off their Currie Cup campaign in style as they thrashed the Pumas 44-18 at Newlands on Saturday evening. Veteran left wing Pieter Rossouw scored two tries, but young scrumhalf Tertius Carse was the man who raised the eyebrows on his Currie Cup debut.
Roger Federer overcame Andy Roddick’s brute power game on Sunday to win his second straight Wimbledon title and cement his status as the game’s number-one player. The top-seeded Swiss star withstood Roddick’s huge serves and forehand winners, winning 4-6, 7-5, 7-6 (3), 6-4 for his third Grand Slam title.
At least seven people died and seven others are missing after Typhoon Mindulle cut a swathe of destruction through central and southern Taiwan, officials said on Saturday. An avalanche of mud and rocks buried a small village in the Nantou region of central Taiwan.
The United States warned its citizens on Friday of the risk of travel to crisis-ridden Zimbabwe. ”Zimbabwe continues to be in the midst of political, economic and humanitarian crises with serious implications for the security situation in the country,” the US State Department said in a travel warning.
Marlon Brando, whose brooding, tongue-tied characters in The Wild One, On the Waterfront and A Streetcar Named Desire uttered some of the most famous lines in movie history, has died at the age of 80. The two-time Oscar winner died in a Los Angeles hospital late on Thursday, media reported on Friday.
An earthquake in a remote, mountainous part of eastern Turkey on Friday collapsed dozens of stone and mud-brick houses, killing 18 people including three sisters and their brother, and injuring 27 others. The earthquake destroyed 67 homes in the village of Yigincal, near the Iranian border.