THURSDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO Pirates have released three players — Naughty Mokeona, Sidwell Maboe and Vincent Sokhela — to AmaZulu in exchange with midfielder Simon Magagula. AmaZulu manager Lawrence Ngubane confirmed the move: ”We need players more than money, that is why we decided to swap Magagula instead of selling him.” Magagula, who is at present […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM THE African National Congress has accused the police of participation in the massacre of five party members — three of them newly elected town councillors — in Richmond in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands. The five, councillors Bhekumusa Mchunu and his cousin Mbongiseni Mchunu, both 25, and Boy Dhlamini, Mduduzi Mtungwa and Mshiyeni Nyide were […]
WEDNESDAY, 5.30PM SOUTH Africa is to resume arms sales to Rwanda, National Conventional Arms Control Committee chairman Kader Asmal said on Wednesday. Asmal said the decision was prompted by changed circumstances in Rwanda and the need for that country to restore peace and order. Asmal also confirmed that the committee in August last year approved […]
WEDNESDAY, 10.30AM TWO newly elected African National Congress councillors in the KwaZulu-Natal midlands town of Richmond were shot dead on Tuesday night together with three other party members in the nearby Simozomeni township. Richmond mayor Andrew Ravagaloo said all five were dragged from a house in the township and shot execution style. He said it […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: SPRINGBOK rugby coach Carel du Plessis said on Wednesday that fullback Andre Joubert should “have a rethink” about his rugby career, and should “maybe start planning” his retirement”. Joubert was not named in the squad that will tour Australia and New Zealand later this season, though Du Plessis said he had been considered. […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THE South African Football Association (Safa) will invite Namibia, Nigeria and one unnamed Asian country to take part in this year’s Four Nations Cup. Safa has decided to invite Namibia because it is the only neighbouring country that has not played against Bafana Bafana. “We have played against all our neighbours except Namibia […]
WEDNESDAY, 8.30AM RESCUE workers found the bodies of five more miners at Hartebeesfontein mine overnight, taking the death toll to 15. Three more miners are missing, presumed dead. Two teams of rescue workers are tunneling through debris to reach the area where the miners are believed to have been trapped. The rockburst that killed the […]
RULING PARTY WINS IN MALI The ruling Alliance for Democracy in Mali (Adema), according to returns from 50 of the 55 electoral districts, has won 110 of the 147 legislative seats in the national elections held on Sunday. The elections were boycotted by most opposition parties. Adema won all the districts in the capital Bamako. […]
WEDNESDAY, 4.00PM THE Comorian army moved in to restore calm on the island of Anjouan after violent clashes between security forces and separatist militants there, residents said on Wednesday. In unrest sparked by the arrest on Monday of separatist leader Abdallah Ibrahim, two police officers were seriously wounded in Domoni, where protesters torched the residence […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.30PM: THERE are two changes to the Free State side to play North-West in a Currie Cup match in Potchefstroom on Friday. Naka Drotske and Werner Swanepoel are in the South African squad to tour Australia and New Zealand and will be replaced by Charl Marais and Kat Myburgh respectively. Free State :Christo Potgieter, […]