JULIAN GUYER, Nottingham | Wednesday 5.30pm. ZIMBABWE may have won two tour matches ahead of the second and final Test which starts here at Trent Bridge on Thursday but they still face real difficulties. After a comprehensive defeat by an innings and 209 runs at Lord’s, England’s most crushing Test victory for 26 years, the […]
WHEN Ernie Els says the final hole of his first golf course design can bring ruin to a round, he means it literally. The two-time US Open champion unveiled his first golf course design in Maryland Tuesday, featuring an 18th fairway that forks around the grey brick ruins of an old farmhouse. Els borrowed ideas […]
STELLA MAPENZAUSWA, Harare | Wednesday 11.50am. ZIMBABWE companies will post weaker results for 2000 as the country grapples with an acute economic crisis seen compounded by farm invasions, analysts said on Wednesday. Over the past fortnight, firms have warned that 2000 results will not match those for the previous year, with National Foods saying on […]
A 63-YEAR-old announcer for Zimbabwe’s state radio has been sacked after slipping momentarily back into the past. Veteran broadcaster Tony Gaynor was last week ordered to leave the studio and not return when he announced the Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation’s lunchtime news bulletin: ”This is the Rhodesia Broadcasting Corporation. The time is one o’clock.” ”It just […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 4.00pm. THE King commission into match-fixing would be willing to travel to India to listen to tapes being held as evidence in a case against former cricket captain Hansie Cronje, an official said on Wednesday. Commission secretary John Bacon said a trip to Delhi would be considered if the […]
ZAMBIA is holding an Angolan soldier after a border clash that left three Zambians wounded last week. “Three Zambians — a soldier and two civilians — were wounded but are out of danger. We are still holding one Angolan government soldier,” a Zambian official said. The incident happened on Thursday when Angolan soldiers crossed into […]
LIBYA is to send a second envoy to the Philippines to try to help secure the release of 21 mostly foreign hostages held by Muslim rebels, a Libyan organisation said on Tuesday. The Kadhafi World Foundation, in a statement published by the Libyan embassy in Riyadh, said the second representative would back up the efforts […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 11.20am. IN a move which threatens the already fragile state of affairs in the Premier Soccer League, Sundowns have turned down an offer to play in the Vodacom Challenge. The competition, an unofficial multi-million rand involving top soccer teams from all over Africa — and possibly teams from countries […]
SOUTH Africa were outpointed 69-10 by New Zealand in the inaugural World Sevens Series Cup Final in Paris on Sunday. The teams went into the break with the Kiwis leading 45-0 and although the Springboks scored two tries in the second-half it was a matter of trying to retain their self respect. “I’m just pleased […]
SOUTH Africa’s main agency for government statistics said on Tuesday it is recruiting a new head to replace Mark Orkin, who has held the post since 1995. Orkin has been credited with turning the body around, making it a authoritative source of relevant market information reflecting a democratic South Africa. Finance Minister Trevor Manuel stressed […]