A UNIQUE conservation project that re-introduces captive chimpanzees to the wild is under threat because of political instability in Congo, scientists warned Sunday. Since 1989 the programme, run by the Franco-Congolese assocation HELP (Ecological Habitat and Liberty for Primates), has prepared more than 40 illegally-captured chimpanzees for release back into the forest. But chronic civil […]
THIRTY-TWO primary school children were treated for bruises and minor shock at Boland hospitals after the bus ferrying them home on Monday afternoon overturned in one of Paarl’s main streets. Police spokesman Captain Francois Rossouw said none of the children, who were all from the Charlton Hill Primary School, was injured. The children were taken […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 1.15pm. A GAMBLE by Brazilian coach Djalma Cavalcante paid off as Angola won the Castle Cup Southern Africa championship for the first time at the weekend. Cavalcante decided to use only local players when he succeeded Yugoslav Vesselin Jelusic last February after a stunning 2-0 home loss against Mauritius in […]
AT least 54% of Zambia’s 9,8-million citizens are forced to drink untreated water containing everything from Cholera to microbes that cause blindness, diarrhoea and other potentially fatal diseases, Zambian health authorities said at the weekend. Central Board of Health (CBH) director general Galvin Silwamba confirmed on Saturday that only 46% of Zambians have access to […]
BIG-hitting Samoa, led by their devastating full-back Silao Leaega, overpowered Japan 43-9 in their Group D World Cup match at Wrexham on Sunday – running in five tries. Leaega’s personal tally was 23 points. And when he wasn’t scoring he was wreaking havoc with Japan’s stuttering attack with some massive hits. In atrocious conditions, a […]
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BILL BARCLAY, Edinburgh | Sunday 7.55pm. HOLDERS South Africa survived a mighty scare on Sunday as they overturned a half-time deficit to beat Scotland 46-29 in their opening Group A match of the tournament at Murrayfield. Scotland led 16-13 at the interval but five second-half tries, helped by some unforced Scottish errors, ensured the Springboks […]
A LATE try by star French winger Emile Ntamack assured France of a winning start to their World Cup campaign as they ran out 33-20 winners over Canada in their Pool C match in Beziers on Saturday – only their fifth win in 12 tests. The 29-year-old veteran, scoring his 23rd try in 36 appearances, […]
PARLIAMENT’s correctional services portfolio committee chairman, MP Aubrey Mokoena, has rejected a call by the Democratic Party for him to step down as committee head. According to the DP, there is a conflict of interests in his sumltaneously chairing the committee and the company that secured the R244-million contract to build a new super-maximum prison […]
MICHAEL VLISMAS, Johannesburg | Friday 7.45pm. ALLAN Henning claimed his first Vodacom Senior Tour victory this year when he won the R140000 Vodacom Cadillac Classic by a comfortable three shots at the Glendower Golf Club on Saturday. Henning was one of three leaders overnight together with Richard Lyon and Gabriel Putsoe, the leader on the […]