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The Eastern Cape health department and Africare will launch a R12m HIV/Aids prevention, care and treatment project in Lady Frere on Friday. Africare is an American organisation which has been assisting the department in HIV related projects since

An agreement has been brokered that effectively ends two days of protests by residents of Walmer Township in Port Elizabeth. Early on Thursday morning Nelson Mandela Bay executive mayor Zanoxolo Wayile and senior management addressed a large

An education programme which has seen the pass rate at the Lwandlekazi High School in New Brighton, Port Elizabeth nearly triple over two years has been given a boost by participants in the annual Algoa FM Charity Golf day. This year marks Algoa

SANZAR has today announced the finalised draw for The Rugby Championship 2012, where Argentina will join the three teams from the former Tri-Nations in a new elite tournament. The World Champion All Blacks will feature alongside the Wallabies and

Orlando Pirates have named Augusto Palacios as the club's new head coach. Pirates chairman Irvin Khoza confirmed on Wednesday that the Premiership champions had penned a deal with Palacios for the 2012/13 season. Khoza said Palacios, the long

Roger Federer set a new record of 234 Grand Slam match wins on Wednesday to reach the French Open last 32 where he was joined by top seed Novak Djokovic. The third seeded Federer beat Romania's Adrian Ungur in four sets to go past Jimmy Connors

The world’s 12th-ranked Investec South Africa women’s hockey team beat world number 18 Scotland 4-2 in a hot-tempered third Test in Glasgow on Wednesday. It was one-all at half time. The win gave South Africa an unbeatable 2-0

Liverpool appears set to hire Brendan Rodgers as its new manager. The hire would vault the Northern Irishman from relative obscurity to one of the toughest jobs in soccer. His current club Swansea says a deal is expected to be finalized later

Troubled New Zealand batsman Jesse Ryder's international career is in doubt after cricket organisers said he would not receive a central contract for the coming season. New Zealand Cricket said no contract for the 2012-13 season was offered to