By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 5 - Paralympic swimming star Natalie du Toit claimed a spectacular victory in the women’s 50 metre freestyle here at the Dr. S. P. Mukherjee Aquatics Complex today.

IPC World Championships August 2010: Du Toit lights up Eindhoven with golden swim August 2010: South Africa

By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 3 - Former West Indies cricket star and sporting hero Sir Vivian Richards (pictured) is accompanying the Antigua and Barbuda team at the Commonwealth Games here after being appointed as their Games ambassador.

"Before the football World Cup, South Africa were under heavy scrutiny.

By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 2 – The legendary vuvuzela trumpets, which sparked worldwide controversy after becoming the droning soundtrack of the football World Cup, are to make a comeback at the Commonwealth Games.

rsquo;instruments’ were criticised by a wide range of players, coaches and commentators in South Africa

" Harris Mbulelo Majeke, South Africa’s High Commissioner in Delhi, said: “We are

awful crook Robert Maxwell, and, were then overshadowed by the boycott by 32 nations - mainly from Africa

, Asia and the Caribbean - who withdrew because of Britain’s links with South Africa?

By Tom Degun in New Delhi October 1 - Badminton player Nathan Robertson has been chosen to carry England’s flag at the Commonwealth Games Opening Ceremony here on Sunday (October 3) as the top nations have started revealing their flag bearers.

origin, will carry the flag for Canada while 22-year-old swimming star Cameron van der Burgh, South Africa

October 1 - The first Generations For Peace camp outside the Middle East was officially opened today by the organisation’s founder and chairman, Prince Feisal Al-Hussein.

organisation will have trained more than 500 delegates from 46 countries and territories in Europe, Africa

By Tom Degun in New Delhi September 29 – South African 800m runner Caster Semenya has become the latest high profile athlete to miss the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games after being ruled out with a back injury.

South Africa Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee (SASCOC) chief executive Tubby Reddy stated that

"As such, SASCOC and Athletics South Africa agree that we are not in a position to compromise her

" South Africa’s team doctor Shuaib Manjra added that if Semenya competed in Delhi, she

" Team South Africa, who have just moved into the Athletes’ Village in Delhi, are waiting

September 28 - Loughborough University’s 2012 tie-in with the Japanese Olympic Committee (JOC) was given a boost when one of the country’s top footballers paid a flying visit.

Yuki Abe, who played in all four of his country’s World Cup games in South Africa and recently

  By Tom Degun in New Delhi September 27 – Organisers of the Delhi 2010 Commonwealth Games have promised the much-derided Athletes’ Village will be fully clean and operational by Wednesday - despite a deadly snake being found in the room of a terrified South African athlete.

foot cobra was seen slithering down a drain in the tennis stadium has left many, particularly South Africa

September 27 - Kent golfer Mark Smith has won the 2010 Disabled British Open at East Sussex National Golf Resort & Spa by just one shot.

days on the 7,138-yard, Robert E Cupp-designed East course, some flying in from as far afield as South Africa

By Duncan Mackay British Sports Internet Writer of the Year September 26 - Gold Coast's bid to host the 2018 Commonwealth Games could be aided by the problems which have overshadowed New Delhi's preparations, the city's Mayor Ron Clarke (pictured) has claimed, but he also warned Sri Lankan rivals Hambantota should not be written off because they may have the backing of China.

have provided facilities and financial assistance to a lot of Commonwealth countries, particularly in Africa

By Tom Degun September 23 - Britain's Paralympic wheelchair racer Anne Wafula has revealed her delight at seeing her remarkable life story become a published book after winning the BBC One competition My Story which was launched last year to find the most inspiring true-life stories in the UK.

wheelchair racing and after taking up the sport; she become the first ever wheelchair racer from East Africa

Paralympics but I am very proud to compete for Great Britain as well so I consider myself and Essex girl from Africa

By Tom Degun One of the trademarks of Paralympic sport is that practically all the participating athletes have an inspiring story to tell. In no-able bodied sport do you hear such an abundance of dramatic tales which see individuals face the greatest of adversities and come out the other side as heroes. But even by Paralympic standards, the story of the remarkable Anne Olympia Wafula Strike, a Kenyan-born wheelchair racer who now competes for Great Britain, is unbelievable. I feel I will do her path through life very little justice in the next few sentences but it is fitting to...

of competing at the Athens 2004 Paralympic Games becoming the first ever wheelchair racer from East Africa

I am also very proud to compete for Great Britain as well so I consider myself and Essex girl from Africa

  September 23 - Sani Ndanusa has been appointed as the new President of the Nigerian Olympic Committee (NOC) - for the second time in less than a week.

Berraf, the Algerian who is the first vice-president of Association of National Olympic Committees of Africa

and was appointed President of the NTF in 2001 and has been a vice-president of the Confederation of Africa

By Tom Degun September 22 - Fears over the Commonwealth Games in New Delhi and the poor standard of the Athletes’ Village have reached an all-time high as Wales today gave organisers a deadline of tonight to confirm that all venues are fit for purpose while England chairman Sir Andrew Foster stated that the situation is now "on a knife-edge".

South Africa have announced their intention to compete in Delhi with South African Sports Confederation