DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.25pm. AN ill-conditioned Corrie Sanders lost his WBU heavyweight world title in Atlantic City on Saturday night, and with it the possibility of fighting Lennox Lewis in the new year. Sanders paid the price for relying too much on his punching power and having not fought more than two rounds […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Sunday 2.20pm. RAIN washed out the morning session on the fourth day of the first Test between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Sunday. The umpires were to make an inspection at 11:15 GMT, 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time, but when there was a heavy shower shortly before that […]

ZIMBABWEAN fast bowler Henry Olonga is set to go to hospital in London on Friday for a scan on his injured ankle, team officials said. Olonga injured himself in the tourists’ final warm-up match against Essex and was ruled out of the first Test match against England, currently in progress at Lord’s. The bowler has […]

FORMER anti-apartheid activist Carl Niehaus, who has served as South Africa’s ambassador to the Netherlands for the past three years, has been bestowed with the Grand Cross in the Order of Oranje Nassau, by Queen Beatrix. She bestowed the decoration of honour for distinguished services to the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The order, only given […]

CAPE Town’s Nico Malan theatre complex, named after a former administrator of the Cape Province, will be renamed, with the Western Cape provincial cabinet calling for proposals to be made in writing by June 9. The provincial cabinet has issued a set of guidelines for the new name. The name should be easily recognisable, it […]

THE Nigerian Football Association (NFA) has banned three top clubs from playing matches at their home grounds as a result of unruly crowd behavior. Home crowds at the Ilorin stadium, where first division Kwara United and Kwara Stars play their home games, have been banned for a year. Kwara United will now play their home […]

SOFTWARE security firms warned computer users on Friday to guard against a new, more virulent strain of the “Love Bug” virus that swept the world earlier this month. Experts said several thousand computers were already infected by new e-mail virus, dubbed “Herbie: Love Bug II”. It causes more severe damage than the original becauses it […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is to be awarded an honourary degree in Britain on Friday. Mbeki will be made an honourary Doctor of Laws by Glasgow Caledonian University for his outstanding contribution to democracy. The ceremony will take place at South Africa House in London. The university was the first British institution to award an honourary […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki meets with President Clinton at the White House on Monday. The two leaders will be discussing regional issues, like the unrest in Zimbabwe, Congo and Sierra Leone. But the public focus of his visit will be on AIDS and Mbeki’s unconventional ideas about the AIDS virus, which has infected about ten percent […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 4.30pm NOT one to be intimidated by all the fanfare following Baby Jake Matlala’s attempt at becoming the first South African boxer to win four world titles, Peter Culshaw stands his ground firmly. “I know I’m the world champion and I’m here to beat Jake.” said the WBU flyweight world […]