Tug of war made it out of the church bazaar and on to the big stage at the LC de Villiers stadium at the University of Pretoria last weekend, when 1 200 participants representing 22 countries took each other on in the world championships.
Cut-price drugs: A major drug company announced this week in New Jersey, United States, that it would cut the price of its Aids drug Stocrin to less than R10 a day in poor countries that are hardest hit by the pandemic.
Kaizer Chiefs winger Marco Mthembu has surprisingly quit the Naturena-based side club to link up with arch-rivals Mamelodi Sundowns.
Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Muralitharan says he has a mystery ball which he will use against Australia in December.
Sri Lankan cricket selectors included six fast bowlers and three uncapped players in a 16-man squad announced on Friday for the upcoming tour of South Africa.
Argentina’s supreme court has handed football legend Diego Maradona a two-year suspended prison sentence for shooting at journalists who were camped outside his home with an air rifle.
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Aids drugs supplied to Africa at cut rates have been illegally resold in Europe, threatening to undermine a system of preferential medicine pricing.
Gold and silver deposits from Barberton, Mpumalanga’s historical mining town, are trickling down to boost employment and stimulate economic activity. About 20 students have already enrolled in the R1,5-million Umjindi Jewellery Project, which aims to rekindle traditional African jewellery design.
Former Zambian president Frederick Chiluba’s ex-wife has reduced her divorce claim from an initial
,5-billion dollars to -million, a newspaper reported on Thursday.