SOUTH Africa’s double Olympic champion Penny Heyns has withdrawn from the world short-course swimming championships following the death of Canadian breaststroker Tara Sloan, Heyns’s family said on Tuesday. Heyns, who has broken 11 world breaststroke marks in the last year, has remained in Calgary, where she is based, to offer support to Sloan’s family. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jamshedpur | Wednesday 9.20am. INDIA have set South Africa’s batsmen a target of 249 for victory in the vital third one-day international at Faridabad after scoring 248/8 in their alotted 50 overs. The last wicket to fall was that of Ajit Agarkar who was bowled for eight runs by Jacques Kallis with the […]

BOTSWANA’S Health Minister, Joy Phumaphi, said that up to 100000 people are likely to contract malaria after the floods which swept the country in February. Six people are reported to have died, while 1500 people are suffering from the disease. Phumaphi said that 13000 people are showing signs of being infected with malaria. “With the […]

ZIMBABAWEAN President Robert Mugabe has reconfirmed his view that gays and lesbians were “worse than pigs and dogs” and has vowed not to allow the British government “to promote homosexuality” in Zimbabwe. The Star reports that “unlike pigs and dogs, which knew their females and could naturally become intimate with them, gays and lesbians could […]

AYOB Mungalee, former Gauteng People Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) co-ordinator, could not appear in a Johannesburg court on charges of conspiracy to commit murder on Tuesday because he was too weak to be transported from Cape Town. Sixteen members and supporters of Pagad on Friday suspended their five-day hunger strike after the SA Prisoners […]

KWAZULU-NATAL mother Janet Mngadi has died of heart failure in Durban’s King Edward hospital. The 40-year old domestic worker was savaged by her employer’s pitbull terriers on Friday. She had to have both her arms amputated in emergency surgery after the attack and also sustained severe facial injuries. The attack took place at a home […]

RICHARD Harry, prop forward of the New South Wales Waratahs, may to miss the Super 12 match against the Sharks on Saturday. Harry has a calf strain and is a doubtful starter. The Waratahs initially named the same side that swamped the Cats 51-16 last Saturday, but Harry may miss out after he was injured […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Maputo | Wednesday 1.30pm. NEW flood damage to a key artery in central Mozambique has prevented the delivery by truck of emergency food aid. “Major rains have caused two breaks on the main road between Beira and Save, a lifeline for trade and commerce,” said Abby Spring, a World Food Programme spokeswoman on […]

MORE than 37 tons of flood relief food has been trucked to five Mpumalanga communities on Wednesday. Macfalda Kumalo, Mpumalanga social services and welfare department regional director, said the food went to about 1300 people at Zwelisha, Jerusalem, Dludluma, Jeppe’s Reef and Nsikazi. Their homes have been either destroyed or badly damaged, and they are […]