You do not need to look back at the rugby landscape of a decade ago to realise what a fast-changing environment the sport is in.

Nelson Mandela guided South Africa from the shackles of apartheid to multi-racial democracy, as an icon of peace and reconciliation who came to embody the struggle for justice globally.

Followers of murdered South African Eugene Terreblanche have cast the white supremacist leader’s death as a rallying point for their cause, with one claiming his brutal death was “a declaration of war” by blacks against whites.

Sustained air strikes in Somalia may earn the US results in its war on terrorism. But they were raising concerns around the globe.

South Africa’s Constitutional Court today waived the death sentence for 62 prisoners condemned before capital punishment was abolished in 1995, saying it should be replaced by an alternative sentence to end 10 years of legal limbo.