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. […]
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 […]