The highlights of 2021 in Africa
Though there are still challenges, parasport champions are breaking records on the track and in boardrooms
Paralysed at 23, Philippa Johnson-Dwyer has defied the odds to seek Paralympian glory
Mpumelelo Mhlongo is crushing it on the global stage, and has his eye on a third world record
One of South Africa’s best athletes is making waves internationally and is targeting a third world record. You’ve probably never heard of him.
Para-athletes are becoming role models admired by society. But are they managing to change perceptions?
Fresh off winning the wheelchair quad singles title at the US Open tennis tournament, Lucas Sithole is aiming for a medal at the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
The uncle of Oscar Pistorius says he is too "traumatised" to train, after a photo was published of the Paralympian running at an athletics track.
Well, that’s it. The biggest party ever held in the UK is over and London raised the Games to a level the Brazilians are determined to equal.
Hundreds of people have turned out to welcome home South Africa’s athletes who competed in the 2012 London Paralympics.
Oscar Pistorius brought the curtain down on a summer of thrills when he won the final Paralympic track gold medal with a dominant display in the 400m.
London 2012 organisers have promised an emotional celebration to bid farewell to the Olympics and Paralympics.
How much difference does equipment design make to Paralympians? Leo Benedictus looks at the innovations that enable athletes to reach gold.
Natalie du Toit won her third gold medal in the pool in her swansong appearance at the London Paralympic Games on Thursday.
While other South Africans will be competing in their event finals, all eyes will be on Oscar Pistorius for the 100m finals at the Paralympic Games.
Oscar Pistorius and his roommate, Arnu Fourie, set new world records in the men’s 200 metres T43/44 heats at the London Paralympics.
Swimmer Shireen Sapiro was disqualified from the 100m butterfly S10 heats at Paralympic Games, for failure to arrive at the first call room on time.
The Paralympics have greeted the first day of athletics but the mood was overshadowed by a mix-up that saw the wrong athlete awarded gold.
With the Paralympics underway, attention will be on Oscar Pistorius, the first athlete to bridge the gap between the Paralympics and the Olympics.
Team South Africa bagged their first gold medal of the London Paralympic Games when Natalie du Toit won the women’s 100m butterfly S9 final.
Britain’s most famous living scientist, Stephen Hawking, will appear at the opening ceremony of London’s Paralympic Games on Wednesday.
The Paralympics begin in London today, and while the Games mark Natalie du Toit’s swan song, SA’s young Paralympians are ready to take up her mantle.
The 2012 Paralympic Games are due to begin in London on Wednesday, with Natalie du Toit and Oscar Pistorius leading the South African charge.
Disabled people experience hate, guilt, patronising attitudes, avoidance and persecution. Philippa Perry asks why.
They haven’t been subjected to the pressure of unrealistic expectations, but Team SA are nevertheless in line for plenty of medals at the Paralympics.
South Africa unites behind the Paralympians as they jet off to London in search of gold.
The world’s top athletes with a disability meet in London next week for what organisers say will be the biggest Paralympics in the Games’ history.
In a few weeks Oscar Pistorius will be back in the Olympic stadium defending his 100, 200 and 400 metre titles at the Paralympics.
In four years, Shireen Sapiro went from being in a coma to winning gold in Beijing. Now the paralympic swimmer is headed to London with even higher hopes.
Wheelchair rugby – once known as "murderball" – is a highly competitive sport for quadriplegic athletes that is becoming increasingly popular in SA.
Oscar Pistorius and Natalie du Toit have been earmarked to head the country’s team when Sascoc marked the 100-day countdown to the Paralympic Games.
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/ 19 September 2008
We shouldn’t have to repeat this, but we will: Judge Chris Nicholson made no finding on the guilt or innocence of Jacob Zuma, and he said so himself.