Disabled swimmer Natalie du Toit will carry the flag for the South African team at Wednesday’s Commonwealth Games opening ceremony, team officials said on Tuesday. Du Toit took the place of 800m runner Mbulaeni Mulaudzi after he spiked his right foot during the final of the World Indoors event in Moscow.
Parliament has been told South Africa would be not be ready to broadcast the 2010 Soccer World Cup without massive infrastructure investment, media reports said on Tuesday. Multibillion-rand investments in digital broadcasting transmission was needed to properly serve a worldwide television audience, Sentech officials warned on Monday.
A baffled Andre Agassi was bundled out of the ,27-million Pacific Life Open 7-5, 6-2 on Monday by Germany’s Tommy Haas. Despite his status as the Masters Series event’s eighth seed, Agassi clearly had his work cut out for him against Haas, who has already won titles this year in Delray Beach and Memphis.
The marketing of a spray that obscures car licence plates from the prying lenses of speed cameras has provoked an intriguing legal debate, the Herald Online reported on Tuesday. A Graaff-Reinet resident claims to have obtained the sole rights to sell and distribute a United States-made spray that blocks speed cameras.
Zimbabwe police have rejected claims of torture made by suspects arrested in connection with an alleged coup plot, and say they are confident of making more arrests soon. Police have also called on former opposition MP Roy Bennett to hand himself over for questioning in relation to their ongoing investigations.
Once one of West Africa’s most stunning zoos, Abidjan’s menagerie became a sad victim of the country’s political turmoil but help from South Africa could give it a facelift and its animals a new lease on life. ”Since its creation very few shelters and cages have been built, putting at risk the lives of animals exposed to bad weather,” said zoo director Ayekoue Yapo.
On Sunday afternoon, cricket went supersonic for the first time. For 10 years the needle had wobbled around the high 300s. But when Saeed Anwar retired and Shahid Afridi was permanently dropped down the Pakistani order, it seemed that the quest for one-day cricket’s final frontier had come to an end.
The tackling technique of Test forward Adrian Morley is again under scrutiny after he received a two-match National Rugby League ban for a high tackle in a club match last weekend. The Sydney Roosters had considered appealing the severity of Morley’s grade-three careless high tackle charge on South Sydney scrum-half Ben Walker but decided to accept a two-game ban.
The African National Congress announced its mayoral candidates for six metropolitan councils after a national working committee meeting on Monday. Nomaindia Mfeketo is the candidate for Cape Town, Duma Nkosi for Ekurhuleni, Obed Mlaba for eThekwini, Amos Masondo for Johannesburg, Nondumiso Maphazi for the Nelson Mandela metro and Gwen Ramokgopa for Tshwane.
Wriggling red worms in tap water have a number of Swartruggens residents in North West province up in arms, News24 reported on Tuesday. It said the worms, between 1mm and 15mm long, appeared in the ”creamy white” water running from taps in homes on Monday morning.