South African fast bowler Del Steyn has taken seven wickets as Indian team has returned to pavilion for just 233 runs on the board in their first inning in the first test match against South Africa at Nagpur on Monday.

India today resumed their inning from overnight score of 25 runs without loss of any wicket. Indian batting order collapsed against the swing of Steyn as they were forced to follow on in the second inning.

Africa's second largest producer of Metals, Gold Fields Ltd.'s plan to move to a 6 day week for workers in order to increase the productivity has been criticised by Royal Bank of Canada, who believes that it will only amount to increase the fatigue in the workers, hence negatively affecting the productivity.

Some scientists have worked out a new theory about the Moon's creation which says that the satellite may have been formed because of a nuclear explosion.

Rob de Meijer of the University of the Western Cape in South Africa and Wim van Westrenem of VU University Amsterdam believe the explosion theory caused the creation of moon.

Melbourne, January 11 : A crime lord in South Africa suffered embarrassment when his fake penis fell after he got busted during a drug raid.

Fat Murphy, booked for possession of stolen property, later revealed in the court that he was hermaphrodite who holds both male and female identity documents.

Police said that they were searching the crime lord, feared on the streets of Cape Town''s notorious Cape Flats suburb, when a strap-on dildo fell off his body, reports Sunday Times.

"I had a vagina that could not be penetrated. But I also had male organs, testes. But I always knew I was really a man and that was what I wanted to be," the Courier Mail quoted Murphy as telling the court.

London, Jan 9 : South Africa could legalise prostitution during the 2010 World Cup amid fears that the tournament will spread the HIV epidemic.

Around 500,000 football supporters will descend on South Africa for the tournament, the Daily Star reports.

Due to the rise in demand, health bosses want the government to consider making prostitution legal so sex workers can come forward to be screened for sexually transmitted infections and get free condoms.

Eric Harper, director of the Sex Worker Education and Advocacy Taskforce, said: “It could be a potential recipe for disaster both for clients and sex workers.”

One HIV-positive prostitute, Isabella Siachina, said the World Cup is the answer to her prayers.

New Delhi, Jan 7 : South Africa is working on a framework pact with India to boost bilateral economic relations, the country's Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, who is here on a three-day visit, said Thursday.

"We are looking at a framework where both India and South Africa will mutually benefit. This will include bilateral investment protocols," Gordhan, who is of Indian origin, told reporters here.

Cape Town, Jan 6 : England will not face any action over reported ball tampering as South Africa refused to make an official complaint, the International Cricket Council (ICC) confirmed Wednesday.

Third Test television footage of England seamers Stuart Broad and James Anderson manipulating the ball alerted the South Africans.

The pictures showed Broad stopping, then stepping on the ball with his spikes, while Anderson appeared to be doing the seam to alter its condition for it to reverse swing.

England fast bowler James Anderson took a five wickets haul as South African team has bundled out for just 291 runs on the board on the second day of the third test match of the test series at Cape Town on Monday.

South African team today resumed their inning from the overnight score of 279 runs for loss of six wickets. South African lower batting order collapsed as they lost their last four wickets with adding just 12 runs in the total.

Jacques Kallis was the top scorer for South African team who scored 108 runs from 189 balls while wicket-keeper Mark Boucher and D Steyn contributed 51 and 26 runs respectively.

Durban (S. Africa), Dec. 30 : England middle-order batsman Ian Bell believes his knock of 141 in the second Test against South Africa here, has saved his career in international cricket.

The Warwickshire batsman admitted his hundred may have saved his England career after a troubled year where he was dropped in the West Indies and only reinstated due to Kevin Pietersen''s Achilles surgery.

Johannesburg, Dec 30 : A South African community living alongside a deadly road aims to end the carnage by performing a ceremony to appease their ancestors, including spilling the blood of animals on the tarmac, a local newspaper reported Tuesday.

The Moloto Road, which runs from Pretoria into neighbouring Mpumalanga province, has witnessed several horrific smashes in recent months.

Durban (S. Africa), Dec. 25 : Captain Andrew Strauss is hoping England will have a psychological edge from Centurion when their Test series against South Africa resumes on Boxing Day.

England clung on desperately to withstand everything their hosts could throw at them in the first Test - and despite losing five wickets for 13 runs on the final evening, they just managed to achieve a stalemate.

Paarl (South Africa), Dec 18 : Shiv Kapur dropped a late bogey, but still made a decent start at the South African Open golf Thursday.

Kapur, who started off with a healthy start in the Race to Dubai for 2010, had finished tied eighth last week, and with a first round one-under 71 he was tied 29th in the European Tour event.

Kapur was one-under through seven holes in second round to be two-under with 11 more holes in second round. He had moved up to 24th.

Kapur starting on the tenth, bogeyed the 12th, but the birdie on 13th saw him turn in even par. A bogey on first was followed by birdie on third and fourth, before a bogey on eighth saw him finish at 71.

As being criticized for not scheduling many test matches for Indian cricket team, Board of Cricket Control of India (BCCI), has finally requested Cricket South Africa (CSA) to include two Tests during the upcoming series in India in February-March 2010.

Now, instead of five one-dayers, there will be two test matches for the No. 1 rank in the place of three one dayers. India has recently attained the number one spot in the ICC Test rankings after they beat Sri Lanka 2-0 in the recently-concluded series.

Johannesburg, Dec 12 :Miss India Pooja Chopra was eliminated from the Miss World pageant here Saturday, failing to make it to the final round of seven competitors.

Chopra had earlier made it to the semifinals on the strength of her "Beauty With Purpose" project on saving the girl child.

There were 16 competitors in the semifinal round. (IANS)

Cape Town (S. Africa), Dec. 7 : Lesbians in South Africa are being dragged off the street and being raped to "correct" them, it has been claimed.

Sky News has found evidence of widespread abuse against the lesbian community, resulting in a new trend of so-called "corrective rape".

In the the township of Khayelitsha, on the outskirts of Cape Town, Sky spoke to a group of women who said they live in fear of their lives.

Cape Town, Dec 4 : The nail-biting final draw for the 2010 football World Cup in South Africa got underway Friday evening at a glittering African-themed ceremony in Cape Town attended by the cream of world football and South Africa's elite.

The draw which will determine the composition of the eight groups that will compete in the first found of the tournament kicked off with a song from "White Zulu" popstar Johnny Clegg and a pre-recorded message from South Africa's first black president Nelson Mandela, who was instrumental in winning the Cup for South Africa.

Cape Town, Dec 4 : The official match ball for next year's football World Cup finals in South Africa will be called Jabulani, it was announced Friday.

The ball was introduced for the first time at a function in Cape Town ahead of the Draw for the finals later Friday at the Cape Town International Convention Centre.

The president of football's controlling body FIFA Joseph Blatter, Germany's Franz Beckenbauer, the only person to win the World Cup as a captain and coach, and England star David Beckham were present at the function held at the famous Waterfront in Cape Town.

Cape Town, Dec 4 : Former world footballer Ruud Gullit Friday dismissed speculation that he was close to signing as Nigeria coach for the 2010 World Cup.

The 47-year-old Dutchman Gullit said there has been no formal approach from Nigeria.

"There is a lot of speculation ... Nigeria also presently have a coach," he said.

Nigeria's Super Eagles only qualified for the 2010 finals on the last day after Tunisia sensationally lost their final qualifier to Mozambique.

Cape Town, Dec 4 : Part of Cape Town International Convention Centre, venue for the World Cup final draw, was sealed off Friday following a bomb scare.

The alert, hours before the draw takes place, followed an earlier bomb scare at Cape Town airport, police said.

The media entrance to the convention centre was sealed off shortly after noon. A police squad was combing the entrance for explosive devices with sniffer dogs.

Cape Town, Dec 4 : The Fan Fest project for the 2010 World Cup in South Africa was launched in Cape Town on Friday by FIFA president Joseph Blatter.

Following the resounding success of the idea at the 2006 World Cup in Germany, the nine host cities in South Africa have decided to replicate the idea, starting with a star-studded event in Cape Town that will take in the World Cup draw in the city later Friday.