Despite the brevity of their sojourn in Bunia, the experience left its mark on the UN Security Council envoys.

His night in the ring was long since over, and Lennox Lewis and his people were still working hard. Vitali Klitschko was tough enough, but now there was some serious explaining to do.

For years, a visit to Centre Court was part of Pete Sampras’s ritual leading up to Wimbledon. He would stand in the shadows, soak up the silence and anticipate the applause to come. The cheering followed each of the seven titles he won at the All England Club from 1993 to 2000, a span during which he lost just one match.

South Africa and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took significant steps on Sunday toward qualifying for the 2004 African Nations Cup in Tunisia.

South Africa’s bowlers lost an opportunity to perform under pressure when rain brought a premature end to Sunday’s limited over match against Northampton at Wantage Road.

The US Supreme Court narrowly ruled on Monday to back a university’s right to use race as one of the factors it uses in its student admission policy.

It looked like a flawless landing. Two days after Christmas 1999, a little after 7pm, the space shuttle Discovery touched down safely at the Kennedy Space Centre in Florida, its eight-day mission to service the Hubble space telescope complete.

Apartheid, it seems, works. Nearly 10 years since racial segregation was abolished in South Africa, identity is still rooted in race. Or so it would appear from the case of Happy Sindane…