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South Africa rugby team relieved to be back on track

AFP - Sat Nov 21, 9:41 pm ET

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.

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Mubarak vows not to tolerate attacks on Egyptians
AP via Yahoo! News - Sat Nov 21, 10:49 am ET
President Hosni Mubarak entered Egypt's bitter soccer row with Algeria on Saturday, vowing in a televised speech that attacks on Egyptians abroad will not be tolerated.
South Africa sports ministry: Semenya keeps medal
Sports Illustrated - Thu Nov 19, 2:09 pm ET
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.
"I Am Changing": Dreamgirls , Poised to Tour, Opens at the Apollo Nov. 22
Playbill - 1 hour 51 minutes ago
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.
South African sports ministry: Semenya keeps medal
AP via Yahoo! Sports - Thu Nov 19, 12:11 pm ET
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. However, the question of whether she remains eligible to compete as a woman remained uncertain.
Desperate Liverpool Grabs a Precious Point
New York Times - Sat Nov 21, 1:03 pm ET
Daniel Agger and Ryan Babel added to Liverpool’s injury problems at Anfield on Saturday in a lively 2-2 draw with visiting Manchester City in the English Premier League.
Out of Africa: Sam Waterston stars at LWT world premiere
New Haven Register - 5 minutes ago
NEW HAVEN — Playwright Athol Fugard has no intention of ever giving up his South African passport or his home there, but for much of the past decade, he’s lived in Southern California — long enough it appears, to examine the American psyche for fodder in his latest work “Have You Seen Us?” It has its world premiere Tuesday at Long Wharf Theatre with Sam Waterston starring through Dec. 20.
Golf-Dubai World Championship third round scores
Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Sat Nov 21, 8:11 am ET
Leading third round scores from the Dubai World Championship at the par-72 Earth Course in the United Arab Emirates on Saturday. 201 Lee Westwood (Britain) 66 69 66 203 Ross McGowan (Britain) 71 66 66 206 Padraig Harrington (Ireland) 68 69 69
Alaska's 'commons' idea inspires global action
Anchorage Daily News - Sat Nov 21, 9:30 pm ET
Thanks to Nelson Mandela and F. W. De Klerk, today's South Africa is admired by the world for its peaceful transition from a racist state to a multicultural democracy. It has the strongest economy on the continent, world-class vineyards and game parks, and six new stadiums built for soccer football's 2010 World Cup.
South African Equities: Anglo American, AngloGold, Investec
Bloomberg - Thu Nov 19, 11:33 am ET
Nov. 19 (Bloomberg) -- South Africa’s FTSE/JSE Africa All Share Index fell for a second day, declining 151.43, or 0.6 percent, to 27,059.21 in Johannesburg.
Talks begin about Semenya's future
Sports Illustrated - Fri Nov 20, 3:08 pm ET
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.
IAAF keep mum on Semenya
AFP via Yahoo! News - Fri Nov 20, 2:28 pm ET
World athletics' governing body, the IAAF, held their silence over South Africa's gender row 800m world champion Caster Semenya during the first day of their annual congress here on Friday.
On Safety in South Africa
The Wesleyan Argus - Fri Nov 20, 8:57 pm ET
Living in irrational fear in suburbia is nothing like living in very rational fear in South Africa.
IAAF still in talks over Caster Semenya's future
AP via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Nov 20, 2:05 pm ET
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. The IAAF said Friday it cannot confirm the South African sports ministry's claims of a deal allowing Semenya to keep the 800-meter world title and prize money she won in August and maintain privacy over...
South African Jewish leader Mendel Kaplan dies
JTA - Fri Nov 20, 9:36 am ET
(JTA) -- Prominent South African Jewish leader and philanthropist Mendel Kaplan has died at the age of 73.
Gildenhuys-Giavasis wedding
The Canton Repository - 2 hours 8 minutes ago
Loading multimedia... Elma Gildenhuys of Paarl, South Africa, and George Giavasis of Canton were married March 23 by Judge Frank Forchione. Parents of the bride are Doug and Rita Mustaine of Paarl. Parents of the groom are Cynthia Giavasis of Canton and George Giavasis of Medina.
I want to play for England after World Cup, says Beckham
Reuters via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Nov 20, 7:11 pm ET
David Beckham wants to continue playing for England even after next year's World Cup finals in South Africa, he was quoted as saying on Saturday.
Volkswagen South Africa to Double Polo Exports in the Next Year
Bloomberg - Fri Nov 20, 2:06 am ET
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.
Africa's largest wind farm set to emerge from Kenyan desert
Washington Post - Sat Nov 21, 12:00 am ET
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.
Al Stoltzfus: Back to his roots
Lancaster Online - 2 hours 2 minutes ago
Al Stoltzfus was born in Ephrata and spent his teenage years in Germany where his parents were missionaries. Now he's back home as pastor at First Baptist Church of Pequea in Gap, a church that supported his parents' mission work and one he remembers visiting as a child.Stoltzfus (no relatio...
List of highest runscorers in test cricket
AP via Yahoo! Sports - Fri Nov 20, 6:11 pm ET
Leading runscorers in test cricket (x-active): 12,877-- x-Sachin Tendulkar, India (160 tests) 11,953-- Brian Lara, West Indies (131) 11,345-- x-Ricky Ponting, Australia (136) 11,174-- Allan Border, Australia (156) 11,038-- x-Rahul Dravid, India (135) 10,927-- Steve Waugh, Australia (168) 10,277-- x-Jacques Kallis, South Africa (131) 10,122-- Sunil Gavaskar, India (125) 9,022-- x-Mahela...