SOUTH African tennis players are top of the heap in the ATP doubles rankings with four South Africans ranked in the top-five. Ellis Ferreira and his American partner, Rick Leach hold the top-spot, with Davis Cup pair, David Adams and John-Laffnie De Jager ranked at number 4. Wayne Ferreira is in fifth spot with Russian […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 1.50pm. CATS coach Laurie Mains has failed to get the required response from match referee Paddy O’Brien after making claims that the ACT Brumbies are running obstructive plays in attack ahead of Saturday’s Super 12 rugby semi-final in Canberra. The winner will play either dual defending champions Canterbury Crusaders […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Friday 2.00pm. RAIN brought play to an end on the second day of the first of two Tests between England and Zimbabwe at Lord’s on Friday. England were 90 for two off 33 overs in their first innings, replying to Zimbabwe’s 83 all out, with Michael Atherton on 45 not-out and […]
CANTERBURY Crusaders scrumhalf Justin Marshall and lock Norm Maxwell have been ruled out of Saturday night’s Super 12 rugby semi-final against the Otago Highlanders in Christchurch. Both suffered calf muscle tears in training this week and were ruled out by medical staff after a fitness test. Ben Hurst will replace Marshall, while Chris Jack will […]
Bugs have become the new cadets in the crime war as forensic entomology provides crucial evidence in court.
WAYNE Ferreira, ranked twenty-three in the world, has sharpened his mental toughness by hiring Sweden’s Mats Wilander. Wilander, a multiple Grand Slam winner was renowned for his mental toughness which helped him take home no less than thirty-three career singles titles. Wilander joined Ferreira in Hamburg this week. “I decided to use Mats to help […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 11.00am. CHENJERAI Hunzvi, the leader of Zimbabwe’s militant liberation war veterans, appeared in court on Friday to argue that he had taken “tremendous steps” to end the violent seizures of white-owned farms by his followers. The Commercial Farmers Union (CFU), which represents most of Zimbabwe’s 4000 white commercial farmers, brought […]
DATATEC, which released better than expected results on Wednesday, says it is “cheesed off” with the markets lack of confidence in the IT company, after news leaked out that it will not meet initial earnings forecasts. The results shows headline earnings a share for the year to March 31 have grown 75% to 393c. Original […]
THE Mozambican woman who gave birth in a tree during the February floods left for the United States on Tuesday to raise funds for her baby. Mozambican ambassador to the US, Marcos Namashulua said a fund-raising campaign had been arranged in New York for Sofia Pedro Chijivuri and her baby, Rosita. The event is being […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT , Washington | Friday 9.00am. UNITED States President Bill Clinton called the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea ”senseless” and urged them to back down from armed confrontation. The two Horn of Africa nations, Ethiopia and Eritrea first came to blows two years ago when a dispute over border territory erupted into a […]