South Africa’s sporting renaissance that started in Muirfield on Sunday should continue in Manchester this weekend despite an absentee list among the athletics squad that, were it a school register, would prompt the principal to close it down for fear of the epidemic spreading further.
This weekend’s Telkom Charity Cup has for the past three weeks provided an emotional rollercoaster ride for the 18 teams in the Premier Soccer League. The ride came to an end this week when the four teams who will participate in the tournament were announced after the 650 000 votes cast by the public had been tallied.
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Frankie Fredericks is around 10 years older than his nearest rivals in the sprints at the Manchester Commonwealth Games. But he’s also faster.
Israel eased restrictions on the Palestinians and unleashed a top diplomat in a damage-control effort after admitting that bombing a Gaza building and killing 14 bystanders, along with a Hamas militant, was a ”mistake.” In violence early on Thursday, one Israeli was killed and another seriously injured in a shooting attack in the West Bank, […]
The body of Nigerian minority rights activist and writer Ken Saro-Wiwa, executed seven years ago to worldwide outrage, has been exhumed for a ”decent” reburial, his family said on Wednesday. Saro-Wiwa and eight of his companions in the Movement for the Survival of Ogoni People (Mosop) were hanged in November 1995 after they were convicted […]
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Wallaby selectors have named winger Ben Tune in an unchanged team for this weekend’s Tri-Nations rugby Test with South Africa despite controversy over the player’s use of a banned drug.
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