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Faf du Plessis (Getty Images) As the Covid-19 pandemic continues to put various sporting codes' respective futures in peril, embattled South African cricket has surprisingly been granted a reprieve on certain fronts.Last month, Jacques Faul, Cricket South Africa's acting chief executive, said that the timing of the outbreak on local soil had been relatively fortuitous…

The maps that the National Weather Service publishes every month, forecasting what may happen in the months to come, predict above-average temperatures and rainfall for much of the United States in May, June, and July. In normal times, that would be unnerving news, a sign of storms coming and a climate wrenched awry. Right now,…

Home News The skin rashes that may be tied to COVID-19 take many forms, from tiny red dots to larger, flat lesions, doctors say. (Image: © Shutterstock) Numerous reports of skin rashes in patients with COVID-19 are cropping up around the world.The rashes can take many forms — some appear as tiny red spots, while…

South African Olympic 200m sprinter Anaso Jobodwana says the Covid-19 pandemic that's caused the postponement of the 2020 Tokyo Games to next year could gift track team-mate Caster Semenya valuable time to fight her case against the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF).Semenya lost her case against the IAAF at the Swiss-based Court of Arbitration…

All the latest coronavirus and lockdown updatesDlamini-Zuma has faced widespread criticism from citizens, politicians and interest groups after she announced that cigarettes and tobacco products would not be sold from 1 May, when the country moved to Level 4 on the Covid-19 lockdown risk scale.The country has been under lockdown since 26 March in a…