OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 9.00am. AMAGLUG-Glug coach Ephraim “Shakes” Mashaba is “in a state of shock” after being forced to name a depleted 21-man squad for the March 12 Olympic Qualifier after last week’s shock SA Football Association order that nay player who has turned out for Bafana Bafana is not eligible for the […]
PETER CUNLIFFE-JONES, Lagos | Wednesday 10.30am. TROOPS have been sent to a southern Nigerian town following the death of hundreds of people in unrest between Christians and Muslims and President Olusegun Obasanjo was expected to make an appeal for peace on Wednesday. Obasanjo was expected to make a broadcast to Africa’s most populous nation — […]
AUSTRALIAN World Cup prop Rod Moore and utility back Christian Warner have been included in the New South Wales team to play the Northern Bulls in Saturday’s Super 12 match in Pretoria. Moore replaces Cameron Blades at tight-head while Warner was promoted to the starting team ahead of inside centre Marc Scherbina. Lock John Welborn […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 2.00pm. ORLANDO Pirates will receive a welcome boost in their match against AmaZulu on Wednesday night with the return of Bafana Bafana midfielder Steve “Chippa” Lekoelea. Lekoelea has been out of action after being injured in the Amaglug-glug’s first-leg Olympic qualifying match against Cameroon at Vosloorus two weeks ago. […]
JONTY Rhodes has been called in to boost Natal’s chances of reaching the semi-finals of the Standard Bank limited-overs cricket series. Rhodes, widely regarded as the best fielder in the world, has stayed in South Africa while the rest of the national team tour India due to the arrival of a baby daughter. The Natalians […]
A SOUTH AFRICAN air force rescue team saved a Mozambican baby from certain death just an hour after she was born on Wednesday in a tree where her mother was perched over floodwaters. Sophia Pedro, 22, and her baby daughter Rositha, were among the few lucky ones. An AFP reporter witnessed the rescue of Rositha, […]
MOROCCO’S bid to host the 2006 World Cup finals is “very, very impressive,” Alan Rothenberg, head of Fifa’s inspection team, said on Monday. “We were impressed by the official commitment to organise the cup. The feeling is something we are very interested in,” he said at the end of the team’s five-day inspection of the […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.15pm. FOLLOWING the controversy surrounding the February 19 world title fight between Hawk Makepula and Baby Jake Matlala, Golden Gloves Promoter Rodney Berman, said that the two fighters will meet in a rematch later this year. Before the highly anticipated rematch takes place however, they will both face other opponents. […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana and AmaZulu coach Clive Barker has been appointed as coach of Cape side Santos until the end of the season. Poor results from the Durban-based side saw Barker quitting AmaZulu before the Christmas break, and he is now responsible for getting relegation-threatened Santos back on track. The Capetonians were defeated 3-2 in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.30pm SHARES in New Africa Investments Limited (Nail) firmed on Wednesday after shareholders on Tuesday voted for a proposed radical restructuring of the black empowerment group. Shareholders ignored a lone crusade by a former director to derail it the restructuring, voting overwhelmingly in favour of Nail’s plans to unbundle its […]