SACKED South African captain Hansie Cronje refused on Thursday to name players who might have been in favour of accepting a $200000 bribe in 1996 to throw a one-day international in India. “It may put people in a bad light and after five or six years I may be incorrect in naming players,” Cronje told […]
NAWAAL DEANE, Johannesburg | Monday 1.00pm. EMBATTLED Bafana Bafana coach Trott Moloto has agreed to work as an asistant to Brazil’s Carlos Alberto Parreira after being handed an ultimatum by the South African Football Association to work as an assistant, or face the sack. A Safa technical committee report confirmed Moloto’s inexperience and it was […]
BODIES of people suspected of having been killed in Rwanda are again floating in the River Kagera in Tanzania. According to the BBC more than six rotting bodies were reported to have been seen floating in the river. BBC Correspondent Eric David Nampsya said he saw more than six. “I saw eight bodies floating. The […]
A TEAM of Japanese archeologists excavating near the Giza Pyramids have found three 4500-year-old tombs, one containing a skeleton in a sitting position. Egyptian antiquities authorities said on Monday the walk-in limestone tombs each contained open burial holes in the ground, including one with the skeleton. The skeleton was seated cross-legged with the head turned […]
JOURNALISTS are not always welcome in Zimbabwe’s tense countryside. “We’re Zimbabweans and if you don’t leave now we’ll use our guns against you,” warned the leader of a group of more than 200 people who gathered in front of a helicopter carrying journalists that landed on a rural football field. “Take off, we don’t want […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 12.00pm. SWEET shop owner Hamid Cassim told the King Commission on Monday that he saw London-based bookmaker Sanjay Chawla hand an envelope containing money to former South African captain Hansie Cronje. ”…they had a conversation for about 10 minutes relating to cricket. They talked about match forecasting, pitch conditions, […]
PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF will win parliamentary elections this weekend by a landslide, the state-owned Herald predicts as the independent Daily News forecasts the opposite. “Zanu-PF set for landslide win” screamed the banner headline across the front page of the Herald on Saturday. “Zanu-PF is headed for a landslide victory, shrugging off a token challenge […]
THE England team for the second Test against the Springboks at Bloemfontein on Saturday shows two changes and a positional shift following their 18-13 loss last week in Pretoria. Jonny Wilkinson, who was ruled out of the Loftus match by food poisoning, returns to flyhalf with Austin Healey moving to right wing. Ben Cohen replaces […]
A SLICK of oil has been sighted around 9km off the Cape west coast, near the spot where the bulk carrier Treasure sank earlier in the day. Marine officials said the pear-shaped slick, about 5km by 7km, was spotted around noon by Kuswag VII, the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism’s oil pollution patrol aircraft. […]
THE death toll from the explosion of a fuel pipeline in southern Nigeria this week has risen to 28. The newspaper The Vanguard said on Friday that those who died were believed to have been siphoning off fuel from the duct operated by the Petroleum Products Marketing Company (PPMC) when the pipeline exploded into flames […]