BAFANA Bafana captain Lucas Radebe is doubtful starter for next month’s World Cup qualifier against Zimbabwe. The Leeds United captain says it’s unlikely he will have recovered from surgery he had last month on his right knee and left ankle in time for the July 9 game in Harare. The nuggetty defender has signed a […]

MALCOLM Gray, who takes over as president of the International Cricket Council (ICC) on Monday, attended the King Commission hearings into cricket match-fixing in Cape Town on Wednesday. Gray, from Australia, said: “I am here to meet Judge (Edwin) King and to observe the proceedings.” Gray takes over as ICC president from Jagmohan Dalmiya at […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is in Portugal attending a two-day European Union summit being held in the northern town of Feira. Prtuguese Foreign Minister Jaime Gama, briefing journalists, said Mbeki was the gathering’s “special guest” two months after the first-ever EU-Africa summit in Cairo. “He’s a major person on the African continent,” Gama said, as Mbeki […]

FOR two months a 27-year-old man allegedly managed to pass himself off as a court orderly in the Nelspruit Magistrate’s Court by dressing up in a police uniform with a false police ID card and a toy gun. But police caught up with him last week, when they arrested him in a shop in the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 6.20pm. SACKED South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje admitted Wednesday that his love of money led to his becoming involved with gamblers and bookmakers and, ultimately, to his downfall. Giving testimony at the King Commission of inquiry into match-fixing here, Cronje claimed, however, that he had also been driven […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kimberley | Wednesday 9.00am. ENGLAND overcome strong home resistance after their own slow start and romped home 55-16 against Griqualand West on Tuesday. Flyhalf Ali Hepher converted all seven England tries and added two penalties in a flawless kicking display for a personal haul of 20 points. England’s superior fitness and organisation told […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier is meeting with the head of the Japanese Football Association, Shunichiro Okano, in Tokyo to discuss conditions for a new deal. The ”white witchdoctor” took Bafana to their first ever World Cup in France in 1998, where they had a poor showing. He took the contract to coach Japan’s […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Tuesday 9.30am. THE King Commission of inquiry which is probing corruption in South African cricket has postpostned its public hearings until Wednesday while the Cape High Court rules on an application by three media organizations to enable them to broadcast proceedings live. The court ruling was expected later on Tuesday. […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier is meeting with the head of the Japanese Football Association, Shunichiro Okano, in Tokyo to discuss conditions for a new deal. The “white witchdoctor” took Bafana to their first ever World Cup in France in 1998, where they had a poor showing. He took the contract to coach Japan’s […]

CAPE Town’s beleaguered Golden Arrow bus drivers have resumed work after spending most of Monday locked in a crisis meeting with the Golden Arrow company’s management. They had earlier indicated to management they would suspend services for a week in protest over the ongoing violence in Cape Peninsula townships. Three bus drivers and a taxi […]