Jacques Kallis hit a calm, chanceless century to keep South African hopes alive on the first day of the third Test against England at Newlands.
England off-spinner Graeme Swann’s sparkling form in South Africa contrasts with his tour 10 years ago when he spent a lot of time drinking.
There is likely to be at least one change to the South African team for the third Castle Lager Test against England starting at Newlands on Sunday.
The testimonies left by Number Four jail’s non-white inmates are a stark reminder of a brutal and barbaric regime.
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/ 31 December 2009
President Jacob Zuma said 2010 was the year for South Africans to renew their commitment to national unity.
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/ 31 December 2009
Graeme Smith said after his team’s defeat in the second Test against England that his side had failed to ”go to the next level” after a glorious 2008.
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/ 31 December 2009
The ANC is failing poor black South Africans, and next year’s World Cup will only intensify scrutiny of Jacob Zuma’s regime.
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/ 30 December 2009
Captain Michelle Pitout — killed during a housebreaking investigation — had bravely given her life to policing, said police Commissioner Bheki Cele.
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/ 30 December 2009
Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad bowled SA out for 133 as England completed victory by an innings and 98 runs on the fifth day of the second Test.
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/ 30 December 2009
The Democratic Alliance in Gauteng on Wednesday proposed a ”value-for-money” system in determining public-sector bonuses.
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/ 29 December 2009
Graeme Swann and Stuart Broad ripped through South Africa’s top order to put England on the brink of victory on the fourth day of the second Test.
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/ 29 December 2009
South Africa’s World Cup stadiums could change the image of Africa forever, or stand as spectacular monuments to extravagance and waste.
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/ 28 December 2009
Four people — believed to be members of one family — were killed when their six-seater airplane crashed in Harrismith in the Free State on Monday.
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/ 28 December 2009
The sun shone on England on the third day of the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead, with the visitors ending the day in a strong position.
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/ 28 December 2009
SA put on a much improved bowling performance on the third morning of the second Test at Kingsmead, restricting England to the addition on 87 runs.
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/ 28 December 2009
About 840 people have been killed while more than 280 000 drivers have been fined for speeding since the beginning of the December holidays.
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/ 28 December 2009
Matrics will need to obtain further skills in order to find viable employment, the United Association of South Africa union said on Sunday.
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/ 27 December 2009
Fourteen boys found to have been sodomising each other in a working-class suburb of Cape Town will not face criminal charges, police said on Sunday.
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/ 27 December 2009
Poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds, has died at the age of 85.
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/ 27 December 2009
Poet and former political prisoner Dennis Brutus, who fought apartheid in words and deeds, has died at the age of 85.
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/ 27 December 2009
Smoking dried vulture brains to have a vision of winning Lotto numbers — that’s why customers come to Scelo, a vendor of traditional medicines.
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/ 24 December 2009
A group of Somali refugees in Randfontein are facing homelessness and growing uncertainty, while government and the UN pass the buck.
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/ 24 December 2009
Transport Minister Sbu Ndebele has patted the CAA warmly on the head for the swift action it took to ground the Jetstream fleet of Airlink.
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/ 24 December 2009
A twelfth person has died after a bus accident in the Eastern Cape on Thursday, traffic officials said.
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/ 24 December 2009
Kader Asmal has applied to join proceedings to set aside a JSC decision not to hold a hearing on the John Hlophe-Constitutional Court judges dispute.
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/ 24 December 2009
SA captain Graeme Smith gave his unequivocal backing on Wednesday to Makhaya Ntini, saying the fast bowler would likely play in the second Test.
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/ 23 December 2009
Most emigrants are still whites motivated by fear, but life as an expat isn’t always easy, writes Ilham Rawoot.
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/ 23 December 2009
From all over the continent, immigrants come looking for a better life in the south.
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/ 23 December 2009
Dear diary … a privileged vantage on a decade in the news, with a little help from Hayibo.com.
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/ 23 December 2009
Rapule Tabane looks at how leadership has influenced racial attitudes in South Africa in the past 10 years.
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/ 23 December 2009
A look at a sporting decade that made heroes but also cut some giants down to size.
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/ 23 December 2009
South Africa’s millennium babies tell Karabo Keepile what makes them tick.