THE coach of Nigeria’s Lobi Stars, who are representating the country in the African Champions League, has been dismissed, a top club official said on Monday. “Coach Godwin Uwua has been sacked,” club secretary Francis Ijiga said. Another top official was also sacked and Uwua was replaced by Andrew Agu, one of the junior officials […]

ONE-thousand-three-hundred dismissed Vokswagen workers entered talks with the labour body, the CCMA, in Uitenhage on Monday, in an attempt to get their jobs back. Volkswagen sacked the workers in February after they failed to heed to an ultimatum to return to work, which was issued during an illegal strike. The dismissed workers say the ultimatum […]

FINAL Super 12 standings (collated as played, win, drew, lost, for, against, points). ACT Brumbies 11 9 0 2 393 196 45 Cant. Crusaders 11 8 0 3 369 293 39 Otago Highlanders 11 6 0 5 323 280 32 Cats 11 7 0 4 320 334 32 Stormers 11 6 1 4 298 276 […]

PREMIER Soccer League clubs Ajax Cape Town, Classic, Jomo Cosmos, Moroka Swallows, Mother City, Orlando Pirates, Santos and Free State have five days to get their tax affairs in order or face strong action from the South African Revenue Services. The PSL’s advocate Michael Katz on Friday said that the clubs have until noon on […]

SURINA de Beer, playing in her first-ever Fed Cup match, will get South Africa’s campaign off the ground in La Manga on Tuesday. De Beer, ranked 170th, faces up to Greece’s Evagelia Roussi, ranked 557th in her first match as South Africa’s number two singles player. South Africa are seeded seventh for the tournament and […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Monday 10.00am IT is questionable who exhaled the deeper sigh of relief when the final whistle blew and Sundowns qualified to meet Kaizer Chiefs on June 10 in a dream Bob Save Super Bowl final. Was it Sundowns coach Paul Dolezar, who endured many anxious moments before his star-studded team defeated […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Sydney | Monday 11.00am. QUEENSLAND rugby coach John Connolly said on Sunday that there was a “strong possibility” he would take over Natal Sharks but added he still had to decide whether to reapply for his current job. Queensland ended this season’s Super 12 campaign in seventh place following Saturday night’s 33-26 win […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.45pm. CATS coach Laurie Mains has caused a storm of controversy by including only one player of colour in the squad to play the ACT Brumbies in a Super 12 semi-final in Canberra on Saturday, a move which is endangering the game’s transformation process. Mains, who took the Cats to […]

YOUTH finally gained the upper hand over experience during the final round of the R125000 Pietersburg Classic, as 22-year-old Zimbabwean Mark Cayeux powered to a bogey-free eight-under-par 64, including a blistering inward loop of 30, and a four-shot victory over 35-year-old Dean van Staden at the latest Vodacom Tour stop. Cayeux’s round gave him a […]

SPRINGBOK centre Andre Snyman will probably miss the rest of the season after suffering a dislocated fracture of his right ankle in a club match between DHS Old Boys and Harlequins as a curtain raiser to the Super 12 match between the Sharks and the Stromers in Durban on Saturday. Snyman picked up exactly the […]