PORTUGAL’S Antonio Pinto on Sunday dismantled the most impressive line-up ever fielded to win his third London marathon. Pinto upstaged the world-class field, including the world’s fastest marathon runner, Khalid Khannouchi, South Africa’s Olympic champion Josia Thugwane, defending titlist Abdelkader El Mouaziz, in 2:06.36 — a race record and fifth fastest marathon time ever recorded. […]
SOME 4.2 million South Africans — more than one in 10 — were HIV-positive at the end of last year, the health ministry estimated on Tuesday. That is an increase of 600000 on 1998. More than half the people infected with the Aids precursor are aged between 20 and 30, Health Minister Manto Tshabalala-Msimang told […]
MALCOLM Lange won the inaugural Lesotho cycling championships across the Maluti mountains over the weekend, covering the 90km route from Maseru to Mohali Dam in 2:48:40. Daniel Spence was second, with Douglas Ryder in third spot. Annette Loubser won the women’s race in 3:55:37 followed by Nicki Ryder and Claire Hartwig.
RWANDAN political strongman Paul Kagame has been elected president by an electoral college of parliamentarians and members of the government. Kagame, head of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was voted in by 81 votes to five. He was standing against RPF Secretary-General Charles Murigande. He had been acting president since the previous head of […]
INDIAN police have asked the country’s cricket board for further details of the South African team over the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal.
GAUTENG hospitals have written off R62,5-million in bad debt over the past three years, according to the Gauteng health department. More than R146-million was owed to provincial hospitals by patients who were either unable or unwilling to pay the debt, Gauteng health MEC Dr Gwen Ramokgopa said in a reply to a question by Democratic […]
NIGERIA will unveil the world’s largest mosquito net on Tuesday, a week before a summit aimed at boosting the fight against malaria in Africa. During the launch, 225 school students will squeeze in under the giant net – that’s how many African children die of malaria every two and a half hours. An official from […]
THE TRC Amnesty Committee has granted amnesty to ten former high ranking security police officers for their role in the murder of Johannes Stanza Bopape on June 12, 1988. Amongst those granted amnesty were Adriaan Van Niekerk, Hendrick Mostert, Gerrit Erasmus, Johannes Van Der Merwe, Schalk Visser and Leon Loggerenberg. Bopape died while being interrogated […]
A FIVE-man African Football Confederation delegation will visit Mali from April 25-28 to check preparations for the 2002 African Nations Cup. A CAF statement said the group led by executive committee member Slim Aloulou from Tunisia will meet the local organising committee and inspect proposed venues in Bamako, Kayes, Mopti, Segou and Sikasso.
AFRICAN nations reached a compromise deal on the ivory trade on Monday by agreeing to delay any ivory sales until an effective system is in place to prevent the widespread poaching of elephants. The agreement was reached shortly before a UN conference of 150 nations was to debate controversial proposals to reopen the trade in […]