South African national junior team member Nikita Robb (16), of East London, won the 000 Target Women’s Junior Pro at Huntington Beach on Saturday. Robb was awarded a 9,83 score on one of her two counting waves in the final, the highest points recorded in any division of the event.
Andre Agassi returned to match fitness in emphatic fashion on Sunday as the veteran stormed past Gilles Muller 6-4, 7-5 to register his 60th career title at the 000 ATP Mercedes-Benz Cup. ”It feels amazing; this is why you work so hard. I’m taking it all in and feeling good,” Agassi said.
Defending champion Vijay Singh held off a charging Tiger Woods to capture the ,6-million PGA Buick Open title on Sunday. Entering the final round with a five-stroke cushion, Singh fired a two-under-par 70 and was never pushed in posting a four-shot victory.
A convoy of trucks carrying aid relief of 4 500 blankets and 37 tonnes of maize, beans and oil is to leave Johannesburg for Zimbabwe on Monday. The office of Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane said on Monday the blankets were donated by the Anglican church. Other churches collected the rest of the goods.
Australian Grant Hackett became the first swimmer to win four world titles in the same event on Sunday as he claimed his fourth straight 1 500m freestyle crown at the 11th World Swimming Championships. He had already triumphed in the 400m freestyle and had a world-record-breaking victory in the 800m freestyle.
Coded Nazi messages intercepted by Britain could have exposed the scope of the Holocaust years before the liberation of the death camps, but Allied codebreakers failed to fully understand the information they had, according to United States government analysis of intelligence from the era.
The Inkatha Freedom Party on Sunday suspended its national chairperson, Ziba Jiyane, at a national council meeting at Umhlanga Rocks, Durban. The IFP said Jiyane last week brought its name into disrepute by saying that the party was operating as ”an internal dictatorship”.
Thirteen people died in a collision between a bus and a van between Rouxville and Smithfield on Monday morning, Free State police reported. The accident occurred at about 1am, said Sergeant Thandi Mbambo. ”The truck was apparently parked partially on the side of the road after a mechanical problem,” Mbambo said.
In Tahoua market, there is no sign that times are hard. Instead, there are piles of red onions, bundles of glistening spinach, and pumpkins sliced into orange shards. There are plastic bags of rice, pasta and manioc flour, and the sound of butchers’ knives whistling as they are sharpened before hacking apart joints of goat and beef.
Delegates at the land summit in Johannesburg on Saturday rejected the land-reform policy based on the willing-buyer-willing-seller principle, media reports said on Sunday. Director General of Land Affairs Glen Thomas said opposition from commercial farmers means the matter requires further talks.