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A Lions player has died at the team’s hotel in France, just a day before the Johannesburg franchise were due to make their Champions Cup debut.

According to French media reports cited by

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Cape Town’s indoor ocean returns on 6 to 8 November, when Surf Expo Africa (SEA) sets up at the CTICC for its second edition.

The organisers bill it as Africa’s first all-ocean sport and beach lifestyle trade show, which is a bold way of saying you can buy a wetsuit and hear about sharks under one roof.

The first edition ran from 28 to 3...

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Stefan Milićević once spoke about reaching the top 10. Thirteen years later, the Serbian player has been barred from professional tennis until October 2050 over match-fixing charges brought by the International Tennis Integrity Agency.

The ITIA imposed a 24-year suspension and a $70,000 fine (about R1.16 million) after Milićević failed to respo...

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Thailand’s newest badge of political access is a Casio that costs less than $60 (about R990). Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul’s name, engraved in Thai and English.

Diamond Box currently lists an ordinary resin-strap version of the same AE-1200WH for R880 in South Africa. Bangkok’s politically connected version cannot be ordered, because the val...

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Cape Town’s law enforcement officers are used to suspects reaching for their phones. This week, one of them found a phone that wasn’t.

The City of Cape Town says its officers have confiscated a firearm disguised as a cellphone in Manenberg.