Yearly Archives: 1999

THE African Football Confederation has postponed two Cup Winners Cup quarter-finals scheduled for next weekend because of other international fixtures. Power Dynamos of Zambia successfully appealed for a one-week delay of their match against Club Africain in Tunisia because four of the squad are playing at the All-Africa Games in Johannesburg. The clash between ASM […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 7.00pm. NAMIBIAN sprinter Frank Fredericks gave the thumbs up to his All Africa Games (AAG) participation here on Monday, saying he is over the worst of the back problem which forced him out of the world championships. Fredericks, silver medallist in both the 100m and 200m in the last two […]

GHANA’s hockey team on Thursday failed to arrive at Johannesburg’s Randburg Astro Stadium for their opening All Africa Games match because they were under the impression that their match was scheduled for Saturday. Their opponents, South Africa, agreed to reschedule the 4pm game to 8pm instead of taking three points for forfeit.

SARAH BULLEN and Reuters, Cape Town | Monday 5.30pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange started to lose ground in the afternoon after opening flat on Monday. Dealers said the market lacked direction in the absence of any significant domestic news expected this week. At close oft trade the all share index was 0,66% down, with a […]

THE Nigerian mens hockey team failed to arrive for their opening All Africa Games match against Zimbabwe at the Randburg Astro on Thursday. The Nigerian’s failure to arrive at the venue led to the cancellation of the match. Financial cutbacks made by Nigerian sports officials is believed to be the cause of the team’s withdrawal. […]

SPRINGBOK lock Selborne Boome will not play in the World Cup. Boome suffered an injury to his thumb in the warm-up match against an Eastern Province XV in Port Elizabeth on Sunday. Subsequent tests revealed that Boome had fractured a bone in his thumb, and that the injury is serious enough to leave him out […]

Group 1, First round at Orlando Stadium South Africa (0) 2 (Steve Lekoelea 68, Siyabonga Nomvete 77) Algeria 0) 0; At Rand Stadium: Uganda (0) 2 (Morley Byekwaso 48, Willy Kyambadde 53) Mali (0) 0 Second round At Orlando Stadium South Africa (1) 4 (Nomvete 66, 76, Hareaipha Marumo 30, Patrick Mbuthu 90) Mali (1) […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Monday 11.00am. ALTHOUGH playing without their Springboks, the Lions pulled off a stunning 32-9 win over the Natal Sharks in Saturday’s much hyped last Currie Cup final of the millennium at Kings Park stadium. The Lions scored five tries to none in front of a capacity 52 000 crowd, after leading […]

FORMER Springbok lock Johan Ackerman has been ruled out of the Bankfin Currie Cup rugby final after sustaining a neck injury at the Golden Lions’ training session on Tuesday. Ackerman twisted his neck while practising lineouts and a subsequent scan revealed he had damaged ligaments. It has been an unlucky season for Ackerman, who returned […]

THE National Association of Automobile Manufacturers of SA’s (Naamsa) August sales figures issued last week show that the new vehicle market has finally turned. The figures depict the highest monthly sales recorded for 1999 with total new vehicle sales for August amounting to 27398 units. Compared to August last year, the overall market showed an […]