FORMER welfare minister Abe Williams has been sentenced to three years in jail for corruption. Williams, a National Party politician who served in South Africa’s first post-apartheid cabinet, was last week found guilty in the Cape High Court on 36 charges of theft and four charges of corruption relating to a total of R508254. Judge […]
NAMIBIAN football officials will not take action against officials and players who slept with prostitutes before an African youth championship match in Tanzania. Media reports on Monday quoted national football association president Petrus Damaseb saying he wanted to save the footballers and their parents from further embarrassment. Tanzania triumphed 2-0 in Dar es Salaam and […]
DUTCH coach Clemens Westerhof has parted ways with Zimbabwe one week after a humiliating World Cup loss in Guinea, according to media reports on Monday. The Herald quoted Zimbabwe Football Association vice-chairman Vicent Pamire saying Westerhof had been fired from his $30000-a-month post after less than two years in charge. Westerhof resigned, claimed the Daily […]
PRESIDENTIAL spokesman Parks Mankahlana’s former lover agreed at the weekend to undergo paternity testing to prove that the high-profile political figure is the father of her eight-year-old son. Mankahlana denied last week that he fathered any children with Thalitha Mthethwa, and dismissed his absence from a maintenance court hearing near Nelspruit, at Kabokweni, on a […]
MOZAMBICAN international striker Manuel ‘Tico Tico’ Bucuane has moved from South African club Jomo Cosmos to American Major League Soccer side Tampa Bay Rowdies. National team captain Bucuane said Monday he would replace Raul Arce, who had been transferred to DC United. He goes to Rowdies after being rejected by the Florida club earlier this […]
BUNDESLIGA runners-up Bayer Leverkusen have won the race for the signature of Nigerian international Pascal Ojigwe from rivals Kaiserslautern after the two clubs agreed on a 3.5-million mark ($1.68-million) transfer fee on Tuesday. The 23-year-old midfielder played last season at FC Cologne on loan and was a key factor in their winning promotion back to […]
A FATHER and two children died, and five other children were seriously ill overnight after being contaminated near Cairo by an object described as radioactive. Officials from the electricity ministry and the Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt have since retrieved the undisclosed object from the family home after encasing it in a lead containe. Neighboring […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Karachi | Wednesday 11.00am. FORMER Pakistani cricket hero Imran Khan and ex-captain Rashid Latif on Tuesday derided the International Cricket Council (ICC) for bailing out South Africa and Australia and singling out Pakistan in a match-fixing probe. “Why has the ICC not touched the confession and match-fixing reports against Australian players Shane Warne […]
SWAZILAND have fired coach Francis Banda just one week before facing Kenya in an African Nations Cup preliminary-round match here. Zambian Banda was axed after a 2-0 loss to South Africa in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match last weekend, the latest in a string of poor results for the kingdom this year. He […]
FORMER Rwandan Prime Minister Jean Kambanda launched an appeal on Tuesday against his conviction in a United Nations court for involvement in Rwanda’s 1994 genocide. Kambanda was sentenced to life imprisonment in September 1998 after confessing to involvement in the genocide, in which extremist Hutus massacred 800000 mainly Tutsi civilians in just three months. His […]