The Sunshine Tour’s development drive swings into action this week when the overseers of professional golf in Southern Africa host their annual 36-hole Development Strokeplay tournament for aspiring black golfers.
Many try to arouse sympathies, while others promise quick riches. Whatever the ploy, the fact is that e-mail hoaxes can spread like wildfire using the power of the Internet. Many fabrications sent by e-mail sound believable, others completely
absurd, while others are even dangerous.
Russian President Vladimir Putin remained conspicuously quiet on Sunday on a deadly suicide attack at a Moscow rock concert which served as a clear sign that his moves towards peace in breakaway Chechnya were not going according to plan.
In Botswana, where a third of the population has Aids, one pioneering clinic has shown that it is not too late for a ravaged continent to fight back and survive the epidemic
President Thabo Mbeki is to ask the government for money to help women to play their role in the transformation of Africa.
For 29 years they have eaten together, studied together, prayed together, even breathed in the same air — forced to live as one by a twist of fate. But at 1 o’clock this morning, Laden and Laleh Bijani were due to be put under anaesthetic at the start of a grim ordeal that could leave either or both of them dead — or liberated to begin a new and independent life.
The black sheeting looked like bin liners as paramedics yesterday tried to cover up the shredded remains of the 20 dead from the first suicide bombing to hit Moscow.
Putin’s silence after blasts
Skipper Graeme Smith says any psychological scars inflicted on England during the one-day tri-series will benefit South Africa in the five-test test series that follows.
Serena Williams beat her sister for the sixth time in a row. She beat Jennifer Capriati for the eighth time in a row. And she won Wimbledon for the second year in a row.
Southern African nations are entering the modern information age by hammering out policies to coordinate the growth of information and communications technologies (ICT) in their countries.