Swaziland’s diminishing indigenous tree species will be exhausted within 20 years at the current rate of exploitation, nature conservationists warned this week. "This disappearance of Swaziland’s fuel wood is imminent in some areas, while other areas face the extinction of all indigenous trees in a matter of years, based on the rate of current consumption," said a leading nature conservationist.

Bush Bucks shared the points with Dynamos in a two-all entertaining Castle Premiership league match at the Absa Stadium, East London, on Wednesday night. The home side were the first to settle down, giving the visitors an early scare. Bucks opened the score in the eighth minute.

The women’s international water-polo tournament held at the Joan Harrison complex, East London, came to an end on Wednesday night with Russia unsurprisingly taking first place. They beat South Africa 21-1 in the final, in a game whose fate was sealed by the end of the first quarter.

Mike Tyson closed the book on Wednesday on one of his many run-ins with the law: his brawl last year with two men outside a Brooklyn hotel. Wearing a pink button-down shirt, leather jacket and cap pulled low over his eyes, Tyson made his way through a clump of photographers and the occasional fan to a downtown Brooklyn courtroom.

Rain delayed the start of the Western Province-Boland innings for close on three hours against the home side KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins in their Standard Bank Cup cricket match at the Sahara Stadium, Kingsmead, in Durban on Wednesday. It eventually went down to the Duckworth-Lewis method of decision.