Bloemfontein Celtic coach Owen da Gama is not pushing any panic buttons as relegation-threatened Phunya Sele-Sele face a crunch clash against Santos.
In just two weeks life has changed dramatically for Simon Magakwe, who emerged from nowhere to become SA’s new sprint king.
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/ 7 February 2009
Germany beat the Spar South African women’s hockey team 3-0 in the second Test played at Stellenbosch University on Friday night.
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/ 5 February 2009
Firefighters are still struggling to extinguish a fire that broke out at the Jonkershoek Nature Reserve on Wednesday afternoon.
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/ 3 September 2008
Amanda Matthee looks at how Stellenbosch University’s business school has updated its MBA for 2009.
Kevin Evans confirmed his status as the country’s marathon mountain-bike racing king when he won his third successive SA title this weekend.
The death toll after the Stellenbosch building collapse was revised to three on Wednesday, the town’s director of community safety said.
A fifth construction worker has died of injuries he sustained when a Stellenbosch building collapsed during renovation work on Monday afternoon, the Department of Labour said.
Four people died and 13 were injured — two of them seriously — when a building collapsed in Stellenbosch on Monday afternoon, rescue workers said.
The pressure of qualifying for the Beijing Olympics for world indoor long-jump champion Khotso Mokoena is over after he carded a leap of 8,24m with his first dash at the board on the first day of the South African Track and Field Championships at Coetzenburg on Friday.
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/ 23 February 2008
South Africa Women have made it to next year’s International Cricket Council Women’s World Cup after hammering Ireland Women by seven wickets in the semifinals of the World Cup qualifier tournament in Stellenbosch. Ireland Women were skittled for 107 in 47.4 overs as the South African bowlers gave them no breathing space.
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/ 6 February 2008
A report by the South African Institute for Race Relations, which said South African schools were the most dangerous in the world, is ”media hype”, the Department of Education said on Wednesday. The report ”is evidence that this once-credible institution has fallen prey to a political agenda”, said department Director General Duncan Hindle.
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/ 5 February 2008
South African schools are the most dangerous in the world, with only 23% of pupils saying they feel safe at school, the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) said on Tuesday. Spokesperson for SAIRR Thomas Blaser said a Progress in International Reading Literacy study had ranked South Africa last in terms of school safety.
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/ 3 February 2008
South African education is in crisis mode, according to a Finweek report published this week. The report reveals not only a shocking skills shortage 13 years into post-apartheid South Africa, but also a fundamental crisis in an education system sorely lacking resources to equip a nation adequately for future growth.
Free State were crowned the top team at the 2007 Coca-Cola Under-18 Craven Week after scoring a one-sided 52-3 win over hosts Western Province (WP) in the tournament’s final game at Paul Roos Gymnasium in Stellenbosch on Saturday. WP scored first, but from there on it was all one-way traffic.
Free State scored a hard-fought 18-3 win over the Pumas virtually to confirm their place in Saturday’s main match at the 44th annual Coca-Cola Craven Week at Paul Roos Gymnasium. Their likely opponents will be hosts Western Province, who won against the Lions on Wednesday.
Dreams of making a living off SA’s fertile Cape winelands are souring for many grape growers forced by dipping exports and stagnant domestic sales.
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/ 15 January 2007
The South African women’s hockey side beat Ireland 2-1 in the Spar Hockey Festival series in Stellenbosch on Sunday. The first half was dominated by the hosts, who created numerous goal-scoring opportunities but failed to capitalise, and the score was 1-1 at the break.
South Africa’s women’s hockey team promised much after a convincing display against the Olympic champions, Germany, last week, but failed to deliver on Monday and allowed Britain to dominate second-half possession and win the match in the Spar Hockey Festival by 2-1 at the University of Stellenbosch.
A last-gasp effort by German goalkeeper Yvonne Frank robbed South Africa of what would have been a well-deserved victory over the third-ranked team in the world in the Spar Hockey Festival at the University of Stellenbosch’s Astro Turf on Wednesday. The teams drew 2-2.
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/ 22 October 2006
South Africa saw a four-stroke lead disappear before coming back to clinch the Women’s World Amateur Team Championships on a count-out from defending champions Sweden on Saturday. The final group arrived at the last hole at the De Zalze course with the match all square.
South Africa’s hockey women beat India 2-1 in the second Test at the Stellenbosch Hockey Stadium on Wednesday night to go two up in the four-match Spar Challenge series. South Africa won the first Test 2-1 on Tuesday night. The hosts could not have asked for a better start in the wintry Cape weather when they were awarded a penalty corner in the second minute.
As in their previous appearance at Stellenbosch, the Cape Cobras raced to victory well before the tea break on the third day of the SuperSport Series match against the Eagles. Although there was some resistance from the visitors, the home seamers dominated proceedings and they ensured that the Eagles left only the most nominal of targets.
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/ 5 September 2005
SA’s black winemakers are making huge strides as wine farm owners, but are still facing the challenge of expensive capital outlays.
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/ 9 December 2004
In a ceremony redolent with irony, former struggle icon Abram Fischer received a posthumous honorary doctorate from the University of Stellenbosch in a packed DF Malan hall on Thursday. The controversial award to Fischer, an Afrikaner communist, was a culmination of events that had divided the university.
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/ 7 September 2004
A total of R72-million is to be set aside in the budget for LandCare programmes in the coming financial year, a deputy director in the national Department of Agriculture and Land Affairs said on Tuesday. He was speaking at Elsenburg outside Stellenbosch at the two-yearly LandCare national conference.
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South Africa faced five major crises, and it was the responsibility of voters in the coming election to judge whether these could be solved by the current government, or whether a profound change was required, IFP leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi said on Tuesday.
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Democratic Alliance leader Tony Leon spelled out on Tuesday the goals of his party’s ”Coalition for Change” with the Inkatha Freedom Party, and predicted the two parties would win up to 30% of the national vote on Election Day. He said the coalition aimed to provide the ”core of an alternative government”.
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/ 20 February 2004
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New National Party leaders and delegates from across the country turned out in force at the NNP’s national election manifesto launch in Stellenbosch on Friday. The launch followed the party’s federal council meeting earlier, where incumbent leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk was unanimously re-elected to the post.
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/ 3 February 2004
Former president FW de Klerk has lent his support to the cooperation agreement between the African National Congress and the New National Party, warning that the country’s transition has become a one-sided affair. South Africa requires a special political model based on genuine cooperation, he said.
FW de Klerk’s ‘kiss of death’
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/ 3 November 2003
Four Stellenbosch University students who allegedly shot seven women students with a pellet gun at the university in July this year had their case postponed in absentia on Monday to next year. the four students’ next appearance would be on February 2, 2004, when the jurisdiction of the case would be decided.
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/ 26 September 2003
A report commissioned in the wake of ”vigilante” attacks at the University of Stellenbosch earlier this year has warned that it is a matter of urgency that campus culture be placed on a new footing. The report was compiled by a seven-member panel chaired by Dr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert.