The Australian ski paddling World Cup ended in controversy in Perth on Sunday, with the South African squad questioning the rules applied in the competition scoring. South Africans filled three of the top five berths on the second stage, only to see the overall competition title being awarded to Australia.

Fred Couples continued his amazing run on Sunday, prevailing in four playoff holes over Tiger Woods to claim the final three skins and  000, and win his record fifth skins game with a total of  000. Couples won all his money on Sunday, starting with a birdie putt worth  000 and eight skins on the first hole.

Neil Mellor drove home a 30-metre shot for the winner deep into injury time as Arsenal tumbled 2-1 at Liverpool on Sunday to fall five points behind Chelsea in the Premier League title race. The ball came free to Mellor who beat Patrick Vieira to it and aimed a low shot that flew past Jens Lehmann inside the far post.

One year after music stars took to the stage in Cape Town to raise HIV/Aids awareness, the literary world’s glitterati is making its mark, coming together to help fight the pandemic. Salman Rushdie, John Updike and Gunter Grass are among the 21 authors featured in Telling Tales, an anthology of short stories compiled by Nobel laureate Nadine Gordimer.

We’re talking about the failure of power here. But I guess I would be the last one to know about it. Like the rest of us. Last Monday a whole electricity substation in Hurst Hill went up in flames, leaving large parts of Jo’burg in total darkness. Everything became manual again, like the old days. Like you were still living in Sophiatown. Everything had to be done with paraffin stoves and candlelight.

The South African Government is fast-tracking the recruitment of foreign medical personnel to increase ”capacity building” for the implementation of the anti-retroviral roll-out plan, says Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang. Responding to a question in Parliament asking how many patients in Limpopo and Mpulalanga were receiving anti-retroviral treatment in terms of the plan, Tshabalala-Msimang said 83 and 448 respectively.

Britain’s Prince Harry is besotted with a blonde 19-year-old student in South Africa whose father runs a Zimbabwe game farm, UK newspaper Mail on Sunday newspaper reported. It said Chelsy Davy accompanied Harry during his two-week trip to a polo ranch in Argentina, even staying in the same guest house.

Rwanda massed thousands of troops on its border with Congo on Saturday as a scramble for mineral wealth risked fresh conflict in Africa’s Great Lakes region.
A clandestine network of plunder — illegally mining precious metals in the jungles of the DRC — has pushed neighbouring Rwanda to the brink of another invasion.