The harlequin sprite, a dragonfly long thought to be extinct throughout its home areas in KwaZulu-Natal, was rediscovered recently when a Working for Water team was clearing the Pilgrim’s Rest area in Mpumalanga of invasive alien plant species.
Mbeki identifies the defeat of global poverty as the biggest challenge facing the world economy. The aim is laudable but Mbeki has the wrong targets and the wrong model. In effect, he is barking up the wrong tree.
Recent press coverage of the World Bank report on the economic costs of HIV/Aids to SA has been misleading, inferring that, according to the bank, SA will suffer an economic meltdown due to the pandemic. Yet the report does not make this claim.
South African Rugby will launch an internal investigation into foul play allegations made by the Wallabies following their Tri-Nations rugby Test in Brisbane on Saturday, SA Rugby chief Rian Oberholzer said on Wednesday.
New Zealand rugby referee Paddy O’Brien has leapt to South Africa’s defence, rubbishing suggestions they are a ”dirty” team.
A diamond necklace worth as much as some houses. More than 000 in limousine rides. Sixty thousand dollars worth of rugs. Mike Tyson’s Manhattan bankruptcy filing lays out the surprising ease with which the former heavyweight champion burned through hundreds of millions of dollars during his career.
Cricket Australia (CA) were deluged with 15 days of complaints from the cricket public and there was a backlash from sponsors over fast bowler Glenn McGrath’s verbal tirade in the West Indies, the sport’s leading administrator said on Wednesday.
Influential personalities in South Africa boxing, including promoter Branco Milenkovic, Terry Pettifer and trainer Elias Tshabalala, conceded on Wednesday that the moribund junior heavyweight division needed a drastic shake up.
Paul Hoffmann, who has played 52 matches for the Pumas, could face his old teammates in when he turns out for the Natal Sharks in the Absa Currie Cup rugby tournament on Saturday afternoon.
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