Sundowns have registered their first league victory of the season after six starts by narrowly beating Manning Rangers 1-0 at Odi Stadium in Mabopane. Sundowns, who looked more purposeful, unlike in their previous games, ensured the vital three points through a well-taken goal by Zambian striker Rotson Kilembe.

Pakistan coach Javed Miandad plans to exploit South African weaknesses following Australian Test captain Steve Waugh’s assertions that the Proteas are ”chokers”. ”We have seen their videos and have discussed their weak areas,” said Pakistan coach Javed Miandad.

”The challenge we are still facing is that we still have elements within our communities who are protecting criminals,” said Soweto CPF Area Board spokesperson Sechaba Khumalo. ”Some parents are not playing their part and glorify crime by saying that their children baya phanda [they are eking a living].

Along the walls of a crumbling Cambridge basement, rows of brown cardboard boxes are packed on cramped wooden shelves. It could be the storeroom of a hardware company were it not for the cartons’ strange labels: ‘Zuni’, ‘Fuegian’, ‘Saxon’.

Shock and outrage erupted across South Africa yesterday in response to President Thabo Mbeki’s denial that he knew anyone with Aids. ‘Personally, I don’t know anybody who has died of Aids,’ Mbeki told the New York Times while at the United Nations General Assembly last week. Asked if he knew anyone who was HIV-positive, he responded, ‘I really, honestly, don’t know.’

David Avina had taken his two young children to a favoured fishing spot on the north shore of Galveston Island when his 13-year-old stepson suddenly pointed and shouted: ‘Daddy, there’s a pig in the water.’ But the pale floating mass was no pig. It was a body, missing arms, legs and head.