OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. AUTHORITIES have begun investigating a visit to South Africa by the wife of captured Sierra Leone rebel leader Foday Sankoh. The Foreign Ministry is seeking clarification from the United Nations on whether Fatou Sankoh, who entered South Africa on a US passport, was affected by UN travel restrictions on […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 11.25am SUNDOWNS qualified for the African Champions League Cup quarter-finals after a goalless draw with Nkana in their second-round second-leg clash at Loftus Stadium on Sunday. The South African champions won on away goals against following their 1-1 deadlock in Kitwe three weeks ago. The home-side were expected to […]
PHILIPPINE government negotiators held formal talks with Muslim separatists holding 21 mostly foreign hostages on Saturday, including two South Africans, and urged the depressed and ailing captives to hold on. More than a month after the holidaymakers were snatched from a Malaysian diving resort, the team met the rebels in mountainous jungle in the south […]
DINGAAN Thobela, current national super-middleweight champion and former two time lightweight world champion, will again attempt to win the WBF middleweight world title. Thobela unsuccessfully challenged Cornelius Carr for the same title last year. He’ll be taking on Britain’s Delroy Lesley for the now vacant title on June 16 in London. The WBF suffered a […]
ACT Brumbies coach Eddie Jones believes a dozen of his side beaten by New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders in Saturday night’s Super 12 final should be in the Wallaby squad. He said on Sunday the Wallaby squad for the year’s first Test against Argentina to be named on June 7 should not be decided by the […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm. EPHRAIM Shakes Mashaba is the happiest man in the world. Right? Not quite. There is a potentially major problem looming for a coach who was elevated to the ranks of national hero this weekend. The burning issue is which 18 players does he take to Sydney. Does he stick […]
CLARE Digby, president of the South Africa Hockey Association, is still optimistic of a berth at the Sydney Olympics for the men’s team despite the rejection of the SAHA appeal by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) this week. Speaking at the Champions Trophy meeting in Amstelveen, in the Netherlands, on Sunday Digby said: “I have […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.15pm XOLANI Ndeleni scored a controversial draw with IBC junior bantamweight world champion Jesper Jensen in Denmark on Friday night. “You know they say if you score a draw in Denmark, you know you actually won the fight,” said Mike Segal, Ndeleni’s promoter told ZA*Sports from Denmark. “Xolani dominated the […]
A RECORD 809 foreign athletes will compete in the 75th Comrades Marathon on June 16, with 297 athletes hailing from Africa. In the race’s biggest-ever field of more than 23000, Zimbabwe will be the best-represented country with 179 competitors, while the Zimbabwean Harare Athletics Club field 143 athletes. Other African countries with Comrades competitors are […]
JEREMY LOVELL, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has secured money from Norway and Saudi Arabia to help pay for the redistribution of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to blacks. According to the Sunday Times, the two governments have pledged R100-million ($14.2-million, 15.7-million euros) to enable the Zimbabwean government to buy 118 farms from whites. […]