Garber: Becks stays through November

Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber will not allow David Beckham to leave the Los Angeles Galaxy until November at the earliest.

Beckham's future has been in doubt ever since he extended his loan deal with AC Milan rather than playing the first half of the MLS season, but Garber said any talks regarding a return to Milan will have to take place at the end of the current season. England midfielder Beckham is believed to be seeking a repeat of his loan spell with the Italian side from January to May this year when his stint with the Galaxy comes to an end as he bids to figure in Fabio Capello's England squad for next summer's 2010 FIFA World Cup South Africa™.

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Couple attacked 2x in 4 days

Cobus Claassen
Pretoria - A couple from Waterkloof Ridge in Pretoria survived two attacks by the same gang of armed robbers in four days because a gun failed to fire on both occasions.

The first nightmare of Robert Scheepers, 53, and his wife, Dagmar, 57, occurred on December 22 when two armed robbers broke into their home despite an alarm system.

The robbers overpowered the couple in their bedroom

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Strike Season Hits SA

No trains and buses, minimal municipal services and understaffed pharmacies.

This is what South Africans face next week, if strike threats by no fewer than six trade unions materialise.

"There is not any possible indication that the strike on Monday can be averted," South African Municipal Workers' Union (Samwu) general secretary Mthandeki Nhlapho told Sapa.

At least 150,000 municipal workers are stopping work from Monday in an attempt to get better pay.

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Dos Santos: We showed our pride(FIFA.com) Monday 27 July 2009

Mexico's emphatic 5-0 win over USA in Sunday's CONCACAF Gold Cup final in New York might well prove to be pivotal in the career of Giovani Dos Santos. The lively Tottenham Hotspur forward, still just 20, was named man of the match for a role that included scoring the crucial second goal midway through the second half.

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‘It was like evil just exploded there’

Rowan Philp Published:Jul 25, 2009

‘Tears were running down a police captain’s face; another detective was in a state of shock; he told me it was the most horrifying murder scene he had ever seen’

Cobi Venter was sexually assaulted by a Nazi soldier at the age of three.

She came to South Africa determined to do good, dedicating herself to helping charities and anti-apartheid groups in Port Elizabeth.
But last month, Venter, 67, watched her husband George being tortured to death before being gang-raped and fatally beaten herself in a crime that reduced one police captain to tears.

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