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. […]
WAR veterans and their supporters who invaded a national park in the south of Zimbabwe narrowly escaped death when they were attacked by an angry pride of lions. The independent Daily News reports that a group of around 100 war veterans invaded a private game estate within the Gonarezhoue park, the country’s second largest, to […]
WEST African leaders gathered in the Nigerian capital on Sunday to discuss backing for a regional military force to bolster a United Nations mission struggling to enforce a peace accord in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Earlier, a mini-summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met into the early hours preparing a report on […]
JULIAN LINDEN, Wellington | Sunday 7.00pm. TRIUMPHANT Super 12 captain Todd Blackadder was named on Sunday as captain of the 26-man All Blacks squad which will cover the side’s entire season. He replaces Otago’s Taine Randell, who led the All Blacks through a series of losses and a particularly poor showing in the World Cup […]
MATTHEW TOSTEVIN, Freetown | Sunday 9.00pm. THE United Nations said on Sunday that another 30 of its Sierra Leone peacekeepers had been released by their rebel captors and were now in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. UN spokesman David Wimhurst said in Freetown the UN was hopeful that more would be freed soon. According to […]
A LAWYER who once served as a part-time army commando was appointed Australian cricket’s anti-corruption watchdog on Thursday. Greg Melick, 50, has been given wide-ranging powers to investigate claims of corruption and matchfixing in the game. A barrister who has served on Australia’s National Crime Authority for the past four years, Melick will also work […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Valletta | Saturday 6.00pm. BAFANA coach Trott Moloto will not take long to choose his team for a friendly against Malta on Sunday at Ta’Qali Stadium on the tiny Mediterranean island. The man who took charge of Bafana Bafana 18 months ago and has survived several media moves to oust him arrived on […]
POMMIE Mbangwa finished with match figures of 10-53 to help Zimbabwe to a 32-run victory over Yorkshire on Saturday. Mbangwa and Bryan Strang exploited a helpful Headingley pitch to share eight wickets as Yorkshire were bundled out for 147. Mbangwa, who had career-best figures of six for 12 in the first innings, took four for […]