Yearly Archives: 2000

NIGERIAN football skipper Sunday Oliseh has been severely criticized by a Tunisian newspaper for comments which the paper believes may hinder Africa’s chances to organize the 2006 World Cup. A storm of protest came from the Nigerian camp when Viktor Ikpeba’s penalty in the shoot-out, which video images showed clearly crossed the line, was not […]

A JUDICIAL inquiry has been launched by Sarfu into the aquisition of loose-forward AJ Venter by the Natal Rugby Union. The Natal Rugby Union will face the inquiry at Loftus Stadium on Saturday 26 February, as Sarfu investigate a claim by the Golden Lions Rugby Union that player transfer regulations were breached when Venter’s services […]

JUDGMENT was reserved on Thursday in the appeal of rastafarian Gareth Anver Prince, who has been refused permission to enter the legal profession due to his use of cannabis. “This is a man who uses the ‘holy weed’ as part and parcel of his religious practices,” Senior counsel Peter Hodes told the Appeal Court in […]

PHILLIP Holiday lost a points decision to Thomas Damgaard for the IBC Welterweight world title in Denmark on Friday. Although the former IBF lightweight world champion lost this one, he gave the Swede the fight of his life, cutting him above both eyes and breaking his right eardrum. Most pundits thought that Holiday would be […]

THE body of a man questioned by police in connection with the R17,4-million cash heist near Bronkhorstspruit two years ago was found riddled with bullets in Mapobane in North West on Thursday. Police said Tomtom Njapo had been dead for a few days when murder and robbery detectives found his body. They said he was […]

AN Mpumalanga farmer had to hire a helicopter from Durban, at the cost of more than R250000 over the past three days, to transport feed for his chickens from a delivery point a mere 8km away. The floods have churned up the dirt road connecting farm to the main tar road to White River. “It […]

FRANCOIS Davids has been appointed as the new Convenor of the Springbok selection committee following a recent Sarfu executive committee meeting. Davids, a member of the Springbok selection committee since March 1996, replaces Mickey Gerber. He is joined on the selection committee by former Springbok Captain Wynand Claassen and Springbok coach Nick Mallett. Francois has […]

FLOOD-DEVASTATED Mozambiquans are bracing themselves for the arrival of tropical cyclone Eline on Monday afternoon. The Weather Bureau in Pretoria said on Sunday that the cyclone will probably announce its arrival with heavy showers over southern Mozambique. The cyclone has already killed two people in Madagascar and has since been crossing the Mozambique Channel. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vosloorus | Saturday 6.00pm. BENNI McCarthy scored on his return to international football as South Africa’s under23 side — Amaglug-glug — defeated Cameroon 2-0 in an Olympic Games qualifier on Saturday. Voted best player of the 1998 African Nations Cup after finishing joint leading scorer, McCarthy quit last September because he claimed regular […]

BAFANA Bafana are the highest ranked team in African football according to Fifa world rankings released after the African Nations Cup. Bafana are ranked 21st in the world, just behind Scotland. Nations Cup finalists Cameroon and Nigeria both made big leaps with Cameroon, moving up 23 places to 34th while Nigeria gain 25 places to […]