In time Graeme Smith may come to wonder about the favours thrust his way by the United Cricket Board. Hurried into the captaincy before his cap has had time to bleach in the sun, Smith is now to be sent on his first assignment to Bangladesh without the benefit of a vice-captain.
Despite what CNN says, “embedded” reporters are nothing new. They’ve been around forever in sports journalism, and anyone at an Indian press conference during the World Cup would not have needed a proctologist to see that Sourav Ganguly has six or seven scribes firmly embedded near his colon.
Two icons collide next Friday in Denmark, when one of South Africa’s most loved sons pits his skills against one of the Nordic states’ biggest draw-cards.
The great Michael Roberts never scored even a nomination for the South African sportsman of the year award, despite winning countless domestic jockeys’ championship titles and then putting one over on the best Pom riders in their own backyard.
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The Nelson Mandela Medical School in Durban will begin recruiting 360 HIV patients next week to participate in clinical trials for a new non-invasive treatment for the disease.
The Democratic Alliance has demanded that the Commonwealth report on Zimbabwe be released, following the body’s recent decision to extend the suspension of the southern African country from the grouping of mostly former British colonies.
South Africa must protect the advantage it has over many other emerging market economies, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Wednesday.
Swaziland’s chief justice said on Thursday he had resigned in the aftermath of a dramatic showdown between the southern African nation’s modern court system and its absolute monarchy.
Baghdad was plunged into darkness tonight as US officers said they had launched an attack on the city’s international airport, just ten miles from the city centre.