AFRICA WINS FIRST GOLD MEDAL AT THE LONDON GAMES

South africa has won the first medal for Africa at the London 2012 Olympic games. Cameron Van Der Burgh won gold in the 100 meter Breast stroke in a world record time of 58.46 seconds beating out Christian Sprenger of Australia, who won the silver medal in 58.93 seconds and Brendan Hansen of the U.S.A who took bronze in 59.45 seconds