Justine Henin-Hardenne scrambled to win a thrilling US Open semifinal on Friday after Jennifer Capriati twice served for the match. Henin-Hardenne gave herself 19-and-a-half hours to recover to meet fellow Belgian Kim Clijsters in their first US Open final on Saturday.

Former Springbok communications manager Mark Keohane on Friday insisted that Bok coach Rudolf Straeuli was fully aware of the tension between locks Quinton Davids and Geo Cronje long before their highly publicised alleged fallout a fortnight ago.

The notion of packing the trunks means something less ordinary this week with the relocation of about 40 elephants from the northern Kruger National Park to Mozambique’s Limpopo National Park.

A respected university research outfit has cast grave doubt on President Thabo Mbeki’s 2005 deadline for the finalisation of the land restitution process, insisting that more than 11 000 rural land claims remain unsettled.

The future of land restitution could hang on the definition of the term ”dispossession”, rather than on the date a community was separated from the land in question, as the present law requires. That much became clear on Thursday at the hearing involving the Richtersveld community and a gold mine.

Former Mpumalanga minister of health Sibongile Manana has refused to take responsibility for fraud and corruption in her department — corruption that led to R6-million set aside for HIV/Aids projects being wasted.

South Africa’s community conservationists who own land and commercial rights in national parks are joining forces to demand tangible benefits from the World Parks Congress (WPC) to be held in Durban next week.