THE New Zealand Rugby Football Union is taking a back-seat and allowing its provinces to decide how many foreign players can compete in the national provincial championships (NPC). David Rutherford, chief executive of the Union said that the national body has no business telling the provincial unions which players are allowed to play in the […]
NIGERIA has named a squad of mostly home-based players for two international friendlies against Malawi to be played on June 4 and June 6 in Kano and Port Harcourt respectively. Squad: Goalkeepers: Murphy Akanji (Julius Berger), Rotimi Sunday (Plateau United), Dele Aiyenugba (Kwara Stars) Defenders: Abubakar Mohammed, Alphonsus Ezimoha (both Kwara United), Harry Omokoh (Plateu […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Friday 11.15am. A BLACK sports administrator who threatened the boycott of South African rugby tours two years ago has been appointed manager of the Springboks for the two-Test series against England and one-off match against Canada this month. Gideon Sam, vice-president of South Africa’s National Sports Council (NSC), will carry […]
NEAL COLLINS, Johannesburg | Friday 8.00am. SOUTH African defender Mark Fish is likely to move back to England’s premier soccer league soon in a big-money move to newly promoted Manchester City or Charlton. Fish, who retired from international football earlier this year after a row with coach Trott Moloto and team-mates over alleged racism, has […]
THE petrol price is to rise by 8c a litre on Wednesday. The Department of Mineral and Energy Affairs said on Friday that the wholesale price of diesel will decline by 6c a litre and that of illuminating paraffin will drop by 4c per litre. From Wednesday, 93 octane will cost R3,31 per litre in […]
David Macfarlane and Glenda Daniels The University of the Witwatersrand faces a massive showdown today as its council for the first time considers the most substantial objections by workers, the student movement and some academics to restructuring. At the same time, the Mail & Guardian has been told by a senior academic, Wits management is […]
Glenda Daniels If the newly formed Millennium Council, a bilateral between labour and business, modelled on the successful Irish model, works, it would be great for South Africa. Now all we need is the economic growth that followed the formation of the Irish counterpart. The Irish bilateral, where social dialogue between business and labour yielded […]
lottery cash Barry Streek More than 8E000 NGOs have been registered in terms of the Non-profit Organisations Act, Minister of Welfare and Population Development Zola Skweyiya has disclosed. This is far short of his own department’s estimate of between 45E000 and 80E000 non- profit organisations (NPOs) in South Africa, but it is a significant achievement […]
Zanu-PF land-grab policy Jaspreet Kindra African National Congress secretary general Kgalema Motlanthe this week endorsed Zanu-PF’s stand on land appropriation, denying the ruling Zimbabwean party was manipulating the issue for electoral purposes. Motlanthe said in an interview the situation in Zimbabwe had suffered from “misrepresentation of facts” by the media, claiming press reports had inflated […]