PHILLIP Ndou kept his dream alive of perhaps being matched with Naseem Hamed by stopping Edgar Barcenas on the Lennox Lewis-Michael Grant under-card on Saturday night. Branco Milenkovic, Ndou’s trainer said after the fight at Madison Square Garden that Barecenas proved to be a very difficult opponent. The tough Mexican fighter managed to endure Ndou’s […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Phokeng | Saturday 6.00pm BAFANA Bafana exceeded expectations with an experimental side to defeat Mauritius 3-0 in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship first-round match on Saturday. Debutant Patrick Mayo put Bafana Bafana ahead from a 13th-minute penalty kick, Godfrey Sapula struck with a sweet volley midway through the second half and Siyabonga […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Algiers | Sunday 1.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila began meeting with five African counterparts to “evaluate” the stumbling peace process in his war-torn country. The summit is being held at the Club des Pins luxury resort outside Algiers at the invitation of President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, current president of the Organization […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Bloemfontein | Saturday 5.00pm THE Cats boosted their Super 12 semi-final hopes as they pulled off a second surprise win in two weeks, felling the Queensland Reds 36-32 at Free State Stadium in Bloemfontein on Saturday. The Cats came from behind late in a tense, drama-filled game to clinch the three tries to […]
EDDIE Barlow, serving as Bangladesh’s national cricket coach, has been admitted to a military hospital with a brain hemorrhage but his condition is stable, a hospital doctor said on Sunday. The doctor at the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) confirmed that the South African cricketer was undergoing treatment and that he was in a satisfactory condition, […]
MEMBERS of a small doomsday cult in the Eastern Cape province have quit work and taken their children out of school to wait for Jesus. The cult, which has no name, has between 70 and 100 members, most of whom live at their church, a tiny house in a squatter settlement outside the town of […]
SUPER 12 champions Canterbury Crusaders crushed the hapless Bulls 75-27 on Friday. The Crusaders scored 11 tries to three in their demolition job, a sorry reflection of a side that boasts seven Springboks. It took the Crusaders just 25 minutes to earn their four-try bonus point, after touchdowns by Caleb Ralph (2), debutant Chris Jack […]
NEARLY half of the prostitutes in South Africa’s key city of Johannesburg and a quarter of those in Cape Town are children. About 40% of the 10000 sex workers in Johannesburg are under 18 years old, The House Group — an independent organisation which works with prostitutes — told a weekend newspaper. The Sex Workers’ […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Bloemfontein | Saturday 7.00pm THE Free State Cheetahs won the Vodacom Cup with a display of verve and wit, beating neighbours Griqualand West 44-24 in Bloemfontein. Prompted by a fine flyhalf performance from Zimbabwean international Kennedy Tsimba, the Cheetahs established a 17-3 lead by the 17th minute and were never subsequently threatened. 20-10 […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday 1.00pm. BRITAIN and its EU partners have discussed plans to evacuate Europeans from Zimbabwe in the event of a deterioration in the farm occupation crisis. “We have discussed contingency plans [on evacuation] with other European countries,” a Foreign Office spokeswoman said, saying they covered “a number of various scenarios and […]