THE New Zealand soccer team to play Bafana Bafana in a two-leg Olympic qualifier was announced on Tuesday. Overseas-based New Zealand players players who missed the 4-0 defeat to Japan in March return for the matches at North Harbour Stadium on May 19 and South Africa on May 27. Defender John Foundoulakis, midfielder Raffaele De […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Tuesday 8.00pm. MILITANT self-styled war veterans waited in their hundreds outside the High Court in Harare the entire day on Tuesday, while their leader, Chenjerai Hitler Hunzvi, stood trial for alleged fraud. The veterans, joined by youths dressed in T-shirts of the ruling Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) party, cheered […]
FIVE Kenyan soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone were abducted on Tuesday from the eastern town of Magburaka by former rebels, UN officials in Freetown said, after announcing an unspecified number of UN soldiers had been kidnapped in two other attacks. Force commander Vijay Jetley said in a statement on the other […]
THE ACT Brumbies were stripped further of their forward strength with news on Tuesday that back-row enforcer Owen Finegan is out of rugby for six months. Finegan will undergo surgery next week on his left knee after a scan revealed the 26-Test veteran and World Cup winner tore his medial and cruciate ligaments against the […]
JOHN MEHAFFEY, London | Tuesday 2.25am INTERNATIONAL cricket chiefs gathered behind closed doors at Lord’s on Tuesday to discuss match-fixing allegations threatening the game’s credibility. Eighteen International Cricket Council (ICC) delegates will meet for two days in an emergency meeting triggered by South African captain Hansie Cronje’s confession that he took money from a bookmaker. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria, Jolo | 8.00pm. THE South African government on Tuesday urged Manila to take no action that could endanger 21 hostages, two of them South African, who are being held by Muslim rebels on an island in the Philippines. Sipho Pityana, the director general of the foreign ministry, said in Pretoria: “Nothing should […]
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said he will use a meeting of Commonwealth foreign ministers in London on Tuesday to exert pressure on Zimbabwe to ease the political crisis in the country. But the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group is expected to stop short of sanctions to force Zimbabwe to end political violence and intimidation and […]
SOUTH Africa’s Amanda Coetzer, a wildcard entry, got off to a winning start in the $535000-dollar WTA tournament in Hamburg on Tuesday beating Romania’s Ruxandra Dragomir 6-0, 6-4. Coetzer, who was seeded eighth after an injury-related withdrawal by Russian Elena Likhovtseva, only struggled early in the second set when she had to come back from […]
BANGLADESH cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage at the weekend, will be flown to Singapore for an examination, his wife said on Tuesday. A doctor at the Combined Military Hospital where Barlow is being treated said the South African’s condition was stable. “The Bangladesh Cricket Board is sending my husband to Singapore […]
ALGERIAN club USMA have been disqualified from the African Cup Winners’ Cup for fielding an ineligible player during the first round. African Football Confederation spokesman Dr Viken Djizmedjian said Monday that USMA used Issaka Coulibaly against JS Tenere of Niger without an international transfer certificate from Burkina Faso. Tenere, who lost the tie 2-1 on […]