Golden Arrows compounded their problems even further after losing 1-2 to Wits University in a Castle Premier Soccer League match played at the Bidvest Stadium on Saturday night. Despite recently appointing Khabo Zondo as their head coach, Arrows are still languishing near the bottom of the log.

Bush Bucks collected maximum points when they beat Jomo Cosmos 1-0 in a closely contested Castle Premier Soccer League relegation battle on Saturday evening. The winning goal came in the 66th minute when Agent Sawu scored from a well-taken free kick.

Dynamos’ impressive home winning streak came to an abrupt end when they went down 2-1 to a revitalised Mamelodi Sundowns in a Premier Soccer League match at Giyani Stadium on Saturday. Dynamos led 1-0 at the break. Despite the result, the home side gave Sundowns a run for their money, particularly in the second half.

South Africa urgently needs a well-funded institute to research water demand management. This is the view of Pieter Pansegrouw, professor of civil engineering at Port Elizabeth’s Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University, who wrote on the topic in the latest issue of Farmer’s Weekly.

Sri Lanka – still recovering from the devastation of December’s tsunami – has accused Britain of undermining its already embattled health service by failing to prevent hospitals luring away trained doctors and nurses to work in the UK. Sri Lanka says it is causing ”a grave problem” for the south Asian nation’s health service.

A strain of HIV that is highly resistant to almost all anti-retroviral drugs and which leads to the rapid onset of Aids has been detected in New York. Doctors and hospitals across the city have been placed on alert and told to test all new HIV cases for evidence of the strain.

Nobel Peace Prize winner and former archbishop Desmond Tutu on Saturday offered to enlist the SA government’s help in Colombia’s peace process by asking Cape Town to invite rebel leaders for talks. The initiative was cautiously welcomed by Colombian President Alvaro Uribe, who spoke along with Tutu at an event in Cali.

The American mafia has been dealt one of the biggest blows in its history with a revelation that a Godfather has turned informant. Joseph ‘Big Joey’ Massino, boss of the Bonanno family, is is the first official boss of a mafia family ever to violate the bloody code of omerta, the vow of silence that has lain behind the success of the brotherhood’s huge criminal empire.

South Africa have clinched the Standard Bank one-day series, but they still have a point to prove in the final game at Supersport Park on Sunday. South African skipper Graeme Smith said that winning the series was very satisfying, but it would have been more satisfying to have won the sixth match and proved a point.