Silver Stars were made to sweat before they dumped Lamontville Golden Arrows out of the Absa Cup last-16 after winning 5-4 in a penalty shoot-out at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Sunday. The two sides were locked at 1-1 after regulation time with no side able to break the deadlock in extra time.
Western Province ended their first-class season, the last under the current structure, by claiming their 18th provincial title on Sunday (they have also shared the title three time). The victory over KwaZulu-Natal came as Charl Willoughby claimed the final wicket at 3pm on the last day of the match with 37 overs remaining.
The Bulls will try a hit-and-run approach against the Blues at Albany on Friday as they search for a record haul of overseas Super 12 rugby scalps. Not that they have much to beat. Since the Super 12 started, the Bulls — or Northern Transvaal — have won just twice in Australia, setting all sorts of dubious records.
People with disabilities in Uganda say they have been marginalised for too long. They are now demanding that their basic rights be restored and recognised. Members of the Uganda National Association of the Deaf said the government should commit itself to granting them access to education and employment.
Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe has vowed that his ruling Zanu-PF party will crush the opposition in next year’s general elections, the state-run Herald reported on Saturday. Mugabe said a Zanu-PF party victory in a recent by-election had set panic among the opposition, which lost its seat in Parliament.
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The Democratic Alliance on Saturday countered an earlier attack by the New National Party leader, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, and called his party a ”Maltese poodle” begging for scraps at the African National Congress’s table. Earlier in the day Van Schalkwyk urged white people not to vote for the DA.
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More than 15Â 000 people are facing floods in north-eastern Namibia as water levels rose due to heavy rains in the Zambezi river’s catchment area, officials said on Saturday. Zimbabwean air force helicopters have flown to the water-stricken area to help with rescue operations.
Five policemen and one gunman were killed on Sunday in an armed attack on a police station by up to a dozen people in the southern Pakistani port city of Karachi, officers said. They said the gunmen, riding in two or three cars, went to the police station in an eastern district of Karachi and sprayed bullets at the premises.
The United States-led coalition braced for bloodshed in Iraq’s capital as mosques linked to a fireband Shiite cleric called for a general strike and the Americans shut the entrances to their Baghdad headquarters in anticipation of violent demonstrations.
Three suspects in the Madrid railway bombings blew themselves up on Saturday in a southwestern suburb of Madrid as police prepared to storm their apartment, setting off a powerful explosion that killed one special forces agent and wounded 15 police officers, the interior minister said. Saturday’s news further shocked Spaniards, still traumatised by the March 11 bombings that killed 191 people.