Whatever happened to the food crisis in Africa that Western charities, the United Nations and governments warned last year could engulf 25-million people? Did it never happen? Did they get it wrong? Did the rains come and the food suddenly grow? Did the world stump up enough cash and food?
Flyhalf Chris Rossouw will play his first match since recovering from knee surgery when he runs out for Western Province (WP) in their Vodacom Shield semifinal against Griquas at the Absa Stadium in Kimberley on Saturday.
Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced on Wednesday that Boland athlete, Elana Meyer, was found to have exceeded the reportable limit of the banned stimulant Caffeine, in a sample provided at a 10km race in Bali, Malaysia on February 2 2003.
Fiji’s rugby players have been warned that discipline will be crucial in the 2003 Rugby World Cup (RWC), with organisers promising a crack down on illegal play, the Fiji Times reported on Wednesday.
Springbok prop Lawrence Sephaka was involved in a motor accident that left a pedestrian dead in Germiston on Tuesday, Ekurhuleni metro police said on Wednesday.
The Central African Republic will not be represented at next week’s assembly of the African Union (AU) in Maputo, President Thabo Mbeki confirmed on Friday.
A handful of demonstrators showed up at ”mass pickets” against American President George Bush on Friday, with 18 people attending the event in Johannesburg and nine in Pretoria.
The Mozambican government has adopted a new strategy to combat the spread of Aids, now focusing on care as well as prevention, Prime Minister Pascoal Mocumbi said on Friday.
President Paul Kagame criticised Western countries on Friday for putting pressure on him to allow political opponents to operate more freely ahead of elections scheduled to take place in the next two months.
Liberia’s besieged President Charles Taylor Friday renewed a pledge to step down, but stressed he would only leave after an international peacekeeping force is deployed to his west African nation.