South Africa rugby team relieved to be back on track
AFP - Sat Nov 21, 9:41 pm ETSouth Africa coach Peter de Villiers and captain John Smit agreed that the world champions were back on track following their 32-10 win over Italy here.
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South Africa coach Peter de Villiers and captain John Smit agreed that the world champions were back on track following their 32-10 win over Italy here.
Nov. 21 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa plans to create special courts during the 2010 FIFA World Cup to speed up processing cases involving foreigners, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Justice Department Spokesman Tlali Tlali.
South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.
Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's hit 1981 Motown musical, Dreamgirls, the showbiz fairy tale about an unknown girl group that is catapulted to international stardom, opens Nov. 22 at Harlem's Apollo Theater in a new production that gives the famous material a makeover.
JOHANNESBURG (AP) -- South African runner Caster Semenya will keep her 800-meter gold medal from the world championships, and the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential, the South African sports ministry said Thursday.
MONACO (AP) -- The governing body of track and field is working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender and career.
Peggy Pauly lives in a robin-egg blue, two-story house not far from acres of onion fields that make the northern Nevada air smell sweet at harvest time.
One of the most public and controversial cases of sex verification in sports has apparently been resolved, but the results may never be made known to the public.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- Volkswagen of South Africa , the local unit of Europe’s largest automaker, said it will double its export production of right-hand drive Volkwagen Polos within the next year.
NAIROBI -- Kenya's Chalbi Desert is a bleak, forbidding stretch of coarse sand and ash-gray ridges broken by clusters of tiny huts. It is also one of the windiest places on Earth, experts say, and it soon will be the site of Africa's largest wind farm.
With a stunning victory in his hometown, Andre Ward proved he's ready for the world.
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The rand declined for the first week in three as South African labor unions, politicians and the central bank raised concerns that its 25 percent rally against the dollar this year was harming the economy.
'Fantantonio' is convinced that no amount of protests will see him return to the Italy squad in time for the World Cup finals in South Africa...
Nov. 20 (Bloomberg) -- The rand fell, extending its first weekly decline in three, as South African labor unions, politicians and the central bank raised concerns that the currency’s 25 percent rally this year was harming the economy.
The IAAF said Friday it is still working behind the scenes with Caster Semenya and the South African government to resolve issues about the 18-year-old runner's gender identity and future career.
With the Thanksgiving and Christmas holidays directly in their sites, moviegoers cannot help but feel an additional burst of adrenaline, if only because a high percentage of movies being readied for release are expected to be highly entertaining, if not ranking with the year's very best.
While soccer's romantics may wish for a long-awaited first for Spain or a historic African victory on South African turf, the 2010 World Cup looks as if it will end with a sixth triumph for Brazil. Coach Dunga may have alienated some fans with pragmatic rather than typically Brazilian flamboyant play, but next year's championship should end with another success for the World Cup's most...
Former South African president Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel have been voted Decade Child Rights Heroes by 7.1 million children, the World's Children's Prize foundation said Friday.
BOSTON — Alan Khazei calls himself a social entrepreneur, not a politician, but he says his race for the U.S. Senate seat held by the late Ted Kennedy is the next logical step in his quest for change.
One of the many shocks in “The Road,” the screen adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s post-apocalyptic novel, comes when actor Viggo Mortensen pulls off his tattered, grimy clothing to luxuriate in a waterfall. The hunky star who played Aragorn in the “Lord of the Rings” movies now looks emaciated.
The South African sports ministry says 800-meter world champion Caster Semenya will keep her gold medal, and that the results of her gender tests will be kept confidential.