Simon Burnett got one over his South African training partner Roland Schoeman on a glorious night for England with two more gold medals in the pool at the Commonwealth Games on Sunday. The 22-year-old Englishman, who trains at the University of Arizona with Schoeman, beat a crack field to win the 100m freestyle.
A century from opener Andrew Strauss and an unbeaten 50 by Test rookie Owais Shah helped a depleted England reach a solid 272 for three on the first day of the third and final cricket Test against India. Strauss batted with authority as he drove, pulled and swept the Indian bowlers fluently after Indian skipper Rahul Dravid asked England to bat first after winning the toss.
Henno Mentz and Jaques Botes scored second-half tries and Tony Brown landed 11 points against his former teammates to give South Africa’s Sharks a 26-11 win over the Otago Highlanders in a Super 14 rugby match on Saturday. Mentz scored the first try of the second half in the 65th minute, snapping an 11-11 deadlock at Carisbrook and pushing the Durban-based Sharks towards their second win in six matches this season.
Nico Rosberg was just six in 1991 when Michael Schumacher began his stellar Formula One career that has led to 84 wins and seven drivers’ titles. Fast forward 15 years, and he’s ahead, albeit in qualifying, in just his second Formula One race. The Williams driver edged out Ferrari’s Schumacher for third fastest in Saturday’s qualifying at the Sepang International Circuit, and immediately downplayed how at ease he felt in the stifling tropical heat.
Research on a traditional medicine claimed to treat HIV/Aids at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) has not found any benefit for Aids patients. ”The university has not conducted any clinical trial research on patients with Ubhejane and refutes claims that research at the university has found any benefit for Aids patients” said Professor Nceba Gqaleni, UKZN’s head of traditional medicines research.
The Lions threw away a 14-0 halftime lead to eventually lose 15-14 to the Leopards in their Vodacom Cup match in Potchefstroom on Friday. The Lions’ John Daniels and Dewey Swartbooi looked to have sealed the match for the visitors with their first half tries.
Metallica fans can expect a broad range of the band’s music — spanning more than 20 years of its career — at Saturday’s Coca-Cola Colab Music Festival at Supersport Park in Centurion. ”It’s just us doing our thing,” said drummer Lars Ulrich in Johannesburg on Friday. ”We always play stuff from all our different records. We’re playing our full headlining show … covering all different sides of Metallica,” he said.
Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf said she wants ex-president Charles Taylor handed over to a war crimes tribunal for prosecution for his role in Sierra Leone’s civil war, with the agreement of African leaders. Taylor was given asylum in Nigeria to help end the war and Johnson-Sirleaf said on Friday she and Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo had agreed to seek African leaders’ views before any handover.
South Africa’s last white president, FW de Klerk, threw a 70th birthday party on Friday attended by fellow Nobel laureate Nelson Mandela, the man he freed from prison as apartheid crumbled. ”Around the world people recognise you as a historic peacemaker and nation-builder,” Mandela said.
Every night in Buenos Aires is tango night. Throughout the city milongas — the word for any place that tango is danced — proliferate. There are tourist-trap milongas, traditional milongas, modern milongas. There is even a seniors’ milonga, where couples trickle round the room with a grace that is a million miles from Strictly Come Dancing pyrotechnics.