MALAWI have included four foreign-based players in their 21-man squad for Saturday’s Cosafa Castle Cup first round match against Mozambique in Blantyre. Coach Young Chimodzi has kept the bulk of the players that beat Kenya 2-0 in Malawi’s first-round World Cup qualifier last Saturday. Malawi squad: Goalkeepers: Valence Kamzere (Telecom Wanderers), Swadic Sanudi (Bata Bullets) […]
SOUTH African cricket great Barry Richards has called on the International Cricket Council (ICC) to impose life bans on players found guilty of match fixing. Richards said he was stunned by sacked captain Hansie Cronje’s admission that he accepted money from an Indian bookmaker. Cronje has denied match fixing but Richards said the scandal had […]
South Africa has welcomed an agreement between the two Koreas to hold a summit in June, saying it could be a “historical breakthrough.” Foreign Minister Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma said in a statement that the government strongly welcomed the announcement. “The South African government would like to commend both Korean leaders for their visionary leadership and pragmatism […]
JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna has been elected president of the United Nations 10th Congress on Crime and Justice. Speaking in Vienna, he said countries needed to strengthen efforts to combat crime. Crime was bemong increasingly technologically advanced, transcending international boundaries, he told delegates, and the fight against criminals therefore necessitated international co-operation and co-ordinated strategies. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange slumped in subdued selling on Tuesday, in the wake of a battered Nasdaq overnight. Information technology, telecom and media stocks were the hardest hit. The overall ended 1,87% or 146 points down. Industrials suffered the biggest losses, finishing 2,95% or or 267 points in the […]
AN Indian bookmaker named in connection with international cricket match-fixing allegations denied wrongdoing on Wednesday and said he had not even met disgraced former South African captain Hansie Cronje. Sanjeev Chawla, 32, who is based in London, issued a statement through his lawyer, Neil O’May, after he was named in several media reports. “Mr Chawla […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.30pm. THE JSE lost early gains ending 1,06% or 81 points lower on Wednesday, pulled down by “old economy” stocks. Gold shares suffered the biggest setback, plummeting 3,29% or 34 points on the day. On international markets bullion lost $2,50 and by late afternoon was trading at $280 to the […]
THE Gauteng Falcons and EP Elephants have announced their sides for this weekend’s Vodacom Cup quarter-final match at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Saturday. Falcons coach Phil Pretorius has chosen to field a full-strength team for the clash, and his team are favourites to clinch the match and go on to the semi-finals where […]
HANSIE Cronje’s sacking on the eve the first one-day game against Australia has ruined the three-match series before it has even started, the Australian team’s manager said on Tuesday. Steve Bernard said that Cronje’s sacking and the ongoing matchfixing enquiries have effectively reduced the three-match series to a sideshow. Bernard said: “People aren’t talking about […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 5.30pm. ORGANISATION of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim, has appealed to world football’s governing body, Fifa, to let Africa host the 2006 World Cup. “The case for Africa is overwhelming,” Salim told a meeting of African ambassadors in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Monday night. […]