GIANT winger Jonah Lomu, the star of the last World Cup, scored two tries as New Zealand recovered from a poor start to swamp rank outsiders Tonga 45-9 in the Group B in Bristol on Saturday. In the first full international between the two countries, Lomu stood out from a mediocre All Blacks performance as […]
BILL BARCLAY, Edinburgh | Sunday 7.55pm. HOLDERS South Africa survived a mighty scare on Sunday as they overturned a half-time deficit to beat Scotland 46-29 in their opening Group A match of the tournament at Murrayfield. Scotland led 16-13 at the interval but five second-half tries, helped by some unforced Scottish errors, ensured the Springboks […]
AT least 11 people died and more than 60 others were injured when a bus carrying a school party plunged into a river in eastern Kenya early on Friday, state-owned KBC radio reported. The radio said the bus, nicknamed Sunbird, was transporting a school party of 88 pupils and teachers to the Kenyan capital to […]
SPRINGBOK flyhalf Henry Honiball has been forced to withdraw from his side’s Pool A World Cup Rugby Union opener against Scotland on Sunday due to injury. Honiball strained a hamstring muscle in training on Thursday and failed a fitness test on Saturday morning. His place has been taken by Jannie de Beer with Breyton Paulse […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Riyadh | Friday 6.00am. RECALLED goalkeeper Andre Arendse made a series of superb saves as South Africa forced a 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on Thursday to win the Afro-Asian Nations Cup. Bafana Bafana (The Boys) successfully defended a 1-0 first-leg lead in the biennial play-off between the African and Asian […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Troon | Friday 9.00am. SPRINGBOK reserve flyhalf Jannie de Beer hops to meet Sale Sharks officials next week to thrash out his release from the English Premiership club. De Beer wants to accept a contract with the Blue Bulls which will allow him to retain his Springbok place by playing Super 12 rugby […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby World Cup As opening games go, South Africa’s match against Scotland at Murrayfield on Sunday looms as a considerably easier task than the corresponding fixture against Australia in Cape Town in 1995. But that is where the simplicity ends. Kitch Christie’s team was expected to lose against a demonstrably more talented Wallaby […]
Larry Elliott The International Monetary Fund (IMF)is confused. That’s a surprise in itself, because the IMF thrives on certainty, with firm views about everything, even if most of them are wrong. Stuck away in its half-yearly document, the world economic outlook, the IMF has a section called “Macro-economic stability and the forces of globalisation: lessons […]
More than one million people work in craft-related industries, but the government has yet to come up with financial support for this important sector.
Millions of rands have been poured into an experimental abalone ranching project at Port Nolloth on the west coast.