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Cricket, wittingly or unwittingly, is host to an alternate society of parasitic fixers, gangsters and business people who trade in extortion
South Africa has descended into a hell and we are pinning our hopes on Shamila Batohi to rescue us
For years it seemed to all those people caught in Tracy Morrison’s intricate webs of deceit that she would never be called to account
Isolation from the rest of the world can be exasperating, but it’s what Zexiteers crave
Although a New Delhi court has permitted a match-fixing case against Hansie Cronje and others, proceedings were suspended due to his death.
We’re told the media must speak for the voiceless but when we do, we’re told to show them the error of their ways, writes Chris Roper.
One of the cricketers who testified against Hansie Cronje says he lied to the King commission of inquiry into the match-fixing saga.
Ten years after his death in a mysterious plane crash, South Africa’s former cricket captain Hansie Cronje remains an enigmatic figure in the sport.
Cricket SA’s (CSA) acting president, AK Khan, says the federation’s board has not left it too late to familiarise itself with the Companies’ Act.
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/ 15 November 2011
Indian police will reopen the match-fixing scandal case involving the late South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje.
The jail terms dished out to three cricket players convicted of match-fixing could deter others, and might bring back the sport’s credibility.
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/ 14 October 2011
A chance to forget about boardroom shenanigans as South Africa take on Australia.
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/ 16 September 2008
Lev David on alleged rugby sex tape: There have been a great many adulterers through history who had other things to recommend them.
Victory against England on Monday gave Graeme Smith his 28th victory in 59 Tests as SA captain, surpassing Hansie Cronje’s mark of 27 wins.
A bittersweet legacy from the brutalities of the apartheid years lingers in South African sport. Only whites represented the republic until 1970.
Just when you thought it was safe to go back on to the field, yet more light is shed on Hansie Cronje and the extraordinary abuse of power that was his ultimate undoing.
An International Cricket Council (ICC) investigator has questioned banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar over his claims that he was offered money to throw matches, Pakistani sources said on Tuesday. Akhtar (32) was banned for five years a week ago for criticising the Pakistan Cricket Board. He later alleged that that he had refused offers of bribes to underperform.
You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Bleary-eyed readers of the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Tuesday April 1 could be forgiven for falling for Eskom’s bold new "sector-sharing plan" to save electricity. We round up some of the day’s best pranks.
Disgraced former cricket captain Hansie Cronje would never be inducted into South Africa’s sporting hall of fame, according to rugby legend Naas Botha. Botha said that Cronje would not be eligible because of the fact he was banned from cricket for life for match-fixing.
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/ 20 November 2007
The filming of <i>Hansie</i> — based on the life of the late South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje — has been completed, its producer said on Tuesday. "The movie is looking beautiful and we are very happy with the quality of the scenes we have shot," producer Frans Cronje, the brother of the cricketer, said in a statement.