BANGLADESH’S cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage last month, has “improved a little” and is able to speak, his wife Cally said on Sunday. She said he had been given physiotherapy for paralysis of the left side of his body. Barlow will be flown to Singapore on Monday for an examination at […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.15pm. THE country’s biggest banking trade union said it will hold protest meetings in major cities across the country on Friday to show its opposition to banking group Nedcor’s bid for rival Stanbic. Sasbo, which has 65000 members, has been vocal in its criticism of the proposed takeover on the […]
MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Monday 12.45pm NIGERIA’S miserable record in Africa’s leading club competition looks set to continue after Lobi Stars were held to a 1-1 draw in their second round, first leg African Champions League match at home by Angolan opposition on Sunday. No Nigerian team has ever won the African Champions League since […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. THE rand slid again on Monday afternoon, hit by fresh weakness in the euro and offshore selling in New York as US players returned to the market after triggering a slide in the local currency to record lows last week. The rand was last trading at R6,98 to dollar […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jolo | Monday 11.20am. A PHILIPPINE television crew on Sunday caught images of 21 mostly foreign hostages huddled in a forest clearing, looking helpless and stricken with grief. The hostages — two South Africans, nine Malaysians, three Germans, two French, two Finns, two Filipinos and a Lebanese — have been in Jolo since […]
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THE London-based businessman sought by Indian police over his alleged involvement in the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal has said that he is innocent. Sanjeev Chawla, a 32-year-old London-based clothing importer, disappeared after the allegations became public in India, but was interviewed on Friday by the tabloid Daily Express. “I have never met Hansie Cronje and […]
THE Canterbury Crusaders went to the top of the Super 12 table with a less than convincing 22-13 win over the New South Wales Waratahs, who saw their semi-final dreams buried on Lancaster Park in Christchurch on Friday. The Waratahs led 13-10 at half-time as the Crusaders found the going tough without their ace kicker, […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Saturday 7.00pm. THE Chiefs scored five tries to three to beat a spirited Sharks 44-31 and condemn them to their fifth successive home Super 12 defeat at Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The Chiefs — who are third from the bottom of the log , only one place up from […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 9.00pm THE limitations of a slow, unimaginative and indisciplined Kaizer Chiefs team were brutally exposed at Johannesburg Stadium as they lost 2-0 to Nchanga Rangers of Zambia in the first leg of a CAF Cup second-round tie. Goalkeeper Brian Baloyi did not help either, gifting the visitors from the Copperbelt […]