Rain halted play in the third cricket Test on Monday between South Africa and the West Indies with the hosts leading by 293 runs. When the players were forced from the field midway through the afternoon session on the third day at Newlands, Herschelle Gibbs and Jacques Kallis had steered South Africa to 188 for two.
Foreigners entering US airports and seaports from all but 28 nations will have their fingerprints scanned and their photographs taken this week as part of a new programme to tighten border security.
Ten man Black Leopards secured a point against their cross-town rivals Dynamos when they drew 2-2 in a Castle Premiership League match played at Thohyandou stadium on Sunday. Leopards led 2-1 at half-time.
Charlton Athletic player and South African international Mark Fish says he is extremely disappointed with manager ‘Shakes’ Mashaba’s tough stance not to bend the rules and allow him and other European-based players to arrive a few days late for the African Cup of Nations which begins in Tunisia later this month.
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The strike by SA Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) members at major airports around the country entered its seventeenth day on Saturday. The strike was not disrupting any airport activities and it was ”business as usual”, said spokesperson Herman Fleischman.
Penguins from a remote South Atlantic island are in the unlikely position of being at the centre of an international row threatening to embarrass Britain. The row also involves controversial South African wildlife dealer John Visser who has been selling the penguins for about R50 000 each to zoos in China, Malaysia and Japan.
Health minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang on Saturday welcomed the South African Rescue team at the Johannesburg International Airport as they returned home from Iran, where 30 000 people were killed in the earthquake. She thanked the team and told them that South Africans were proud of them.
Italian magistrates and officials from the powerful Securities and Exchange Commission are examining the role of lenders to Parmalat — which collapsed into administration last month following the disclosure of an â,¬8-billion hole in its finances. These lenders include some of the US’s largest financial institutions.
Numb with shock or with tears streaming down their faces, around 35 relatives of some of the 148 people aboard the Egyptian charter plane that crashed into the Red Sea gathered yesterday at Paris’s main airport where the aircraft had been due to touch down at 8am.