Amazulu beat Pretoria University 3-1 in the second-leg Mvela Platinum play-off final at a packed Princess Magogo Stadium on Sunday and celebrated their return to the Premiership with their fanatical supporters. Veteran Amazulu striker Dennis Lota scored in the 34th minute and John ”Shoes” Moshoeu doubled Usuthu’s lead in the 53rd minute.
Jannie du Plessis says he is delighted to be included in the Springbok touring party of 28 players for the away fixtures of the Tri-Nations series against the All Blacks and Wallabies. Jake White has opted to rest his big guns for the tour to Australasia, saying it would be ”a ludicrous risk” to take all his players on tour in this World Cup year.
Expect a considerable number of South Africans to follow the route to court 18 to witness Rik de Voest play Russia’s grumpy and growling but almost grotesquely talented 26th-seeded Marat Safin in the first round of the Wimbledon tennis extravaganza, which gets under way on Monday afternoon.
The Nelson Mandela Bay municipality has decided to downgrade the city’s Soccer World Cup stadium because the Eastern Cape government has not paid the R212-million it previously committed to the project, a media report said on Monday. However, the provincial government said it remains committed to the development.
An initiation-school surgeon was arrested following the death of two initiates in Port St Johns in the Eastern Cape, the health department said on Sunday. Meanwhile, in Gauteng, a 15-year-old boy was found dead by fellow circumcision initiates at a mountain between De Deur and Orange Farm on Sunday morning.
Waves of tourists have been coming to Spain’s sun-kissed eastern and southern coastline for decades and convalescents among them are connoisseurs of the climate’s restorative properties. But as European integration progresses, more and more health "tourists" and foreign residents buying into the idea of retirement by the sea have been making increasing use of Spain’s health facilities.
The enormous grey whale shark glides effortlessly in the murky waters off Donsol in the eastern Philippines, its distinctive pale yellow spotted back and fins clearly visible as excited tourists prepare to enter the water from nearby outrigger canoes. They swim to within a few metres of these gentle giants of the deep as their guide makes sure they give the whale shark plenty of room to move.
Roger Federer will have Björn Borg’s record of five successive Wimbledon titles in his sights when he starts the defence of his All England Club crown in London on Monday. The world number one returns to the grass of centre court where he is the undoubted ruler.
Ethnic rebel guerrillas in military-ruled Burma (Myanmar) have killed 27 people in two attacks on passenger buses in the past week, among the heaviest civilian casualties in decades of unrest, state media reported on Monday. ”Terrorist insurgents are trying to undermine national stability,” the official New Light of Myanmar said.
Laboratory tests in Ghana confirmed that the H5N1 bird-flu virus caused the sudden deaths of 2 000 chickens at a farm near Togo’s capital, Lomé, the World Health Organisation representative in Togo said on Friday. It is the first time the virus has been detected in Togo, the seventh West African nation to have reported an outbreak.