Yearly Archives: 1999

SOUTH Africa’s Dewald Laubscher won gold in the All Africa Games men’s individual all-round gymnastics competition at Wits University on Monday. Algerian Sid Ali Ferdjani won silver and Raouf Abdelkarim of Egypt took the bronze.

SOUTH African boxer Phumzile Mathyila beat Ethiopian Endakachew Endelcher in Johannesburg on Tuesday to move into the All Africa Games semi-finals and qualify for the 2000 Olympics. Mathyila, a Commonwealth Games bronze medallist in Malaysia last year, had to dig deep to snatch a 7-6 points victory in a tough bout. “I almost lost it, […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30am. WORLD indoor 800m champion, Johan Botha, almost ruined a near perfect evening for South Africa on the first night of the athletics events at the 7th All Africa Games on Tuesday. As the country took an early lead with four gold medals, two silvers and a bronze, Botha nearly […]

ORGANISERS KAIZER Chiefs coach Muhsin Ertugral is refusing to release his players for the national Under-23 team. That’s after the All Africa Games organisers refused to release three of its players, Siyabonga Nomvete, Jabu Pule and Patrick Mbutho, possibly resulting in the Amakhosi’s early exit from the Rothmans Cup. Ertugral insists it’s unheard of anywhere […]

SOUTH African squad captain Brendon Dedekind won the 100m freestyle at the All Africa Games on Monday, grabbing victory in the final few metres. Dedekind, a 50m specialist and ranked only fourth in the 100m in South Africa, clocked 50.50sec to push Algeria’s African record holder Salim Iles, who timed 50.58, into second spot. Iles, […]

SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett has named a second string XV featuring three black players for his side’s final warm-up match against South Western Districts on Saturday. The uncapped Kaya Malotana and Wayne Julies join Breyton Paulse in the backline as Mallett gives starts to all the players who sat out last week’s 43-14 win over […]

THE South African national soccer team trained with just 10 men at Athlone Stadium on Tuesday with a number of overseas-based players still to arrive for their Afro-Asian Cup match against Saudi Arabia at Newlands on Saturday. Of the overseas contingent, only Mark Fish, new cap Ivan McKinley and Eric Tinkler have arrived in South […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.15pm.. THE government will go ahead with its controversial multi-billion rands arms-for-investment procurement package, Defence Minister Patrick Lekota said on Wednesday. Lekota repeated that there was no basis for the allegations that ANC MPs had received kickbacks from rival bidders aimed at influencing the arms acquisition process. He was reacting […]

THE unofficial medals table of the fifth day of the All Africa Games in Johannesburg. (Under headings gold, silver, bronze, total): Nigeria 29 8 13 50 Egypt 27 33 19 79 South Africa 26 21 13 60 Tunisia 11 11 12 34 Algeria 7 11 13 31 Cameroon 2 6 15 23 Zimbabwe 1 4 […]