PETER Rabali, chairman of MTN First Division League club Dynamos, has been expelled for life from the Premier Soccer League following his resignation after accusations of match-fixing. Rabali allegedly paid City Sharks R7000 to lose a vital match in the First Division so that Dynamos could have a better chance of promotion to the lucrative […]
EMBATTLED former Bafana Bafana soccer coach Philippe Troussier will guide Japan at the King Hassan Cup in Morocco and the Kirin Cup in Tokyo next month, the Japanese Football Association said on Thursday as it considers Troussier’s future. Troussier, whose contract runs out in June, is rumoured to be facing the axe with Arsenal manager […]
FORMER South African cricket coach Bob Woolmer has joined the ranks of the sceptics in the Hansie Cronje betting scandal. Cronje was sacked as national captain last month after admitting taking money from a bookmaker for providing information. Writing in The Daily Telegraph on Wednesday Woolmer said he had initially defended Cronje. “I now feel […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki said the government is considering increasing the distribution of state-owned land to black farmers to more than the earmarked 15%. Government announced earlier this week that it intended to resettle 70000 black commercial farmers on nearly two million hectares of state-owned land over the next 15 years. “The 15% should not be […]
GRANT SHIMMIN, Pietersburg | Thursday 6.00pm. THE overwhelmingly youthful appearance of the field at the R125000 Pietersburg Classic didn’t stop two veritable veterans of the Vodacom Southern Africa Tour from stamping their authority on the first round. Dean van Staden and Justin Hobday both turned professional on New Year’s Day in 1985, when some of […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.30am. THE government was mulling the use of a controversial method to force down the price of drugs, such as Aids treatments, by letting non-patent holders produce medicines cheaper locally, a senior official indicated. The director general of health, Ayanda Ntsaluba said officials had held “exploratory” talks with their […]
STEPHANE ORJOLLETT, Freetown | Thursday 10.00am. THE United Nations said it was preparing for a “pitched battle” to defend Freetown on Wednesday as more civilians thronged into Sierra Leone’s capital from rural areas in fear of rebel attacks. For the third day running, people fearing a return to civil war fled to the capital, the […]
STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Wednesday 7.30pm. EIGHTEEN months after the Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended that R3-billion be distributed to some 20000 victims of apartheid, the government appears no closer to finalising its reparations policy. “We are committed to honoring our commitments,” President Thabo Mbeki said on Wednesday but shed little new light on […]
THE National Olympic Commission of South Africa on Wednesday named South Africa’s Olympic track and field team for the Sydney showcase in September. Josia Thugwane has been included in the team and aims to defend the marathon title he won in Atlanta 1996. The runner has personal reasons for winning the tile again, as his […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 2.45pm. FIFA vice-president David Will predicted on Thursday that England’s “flawless” bid will win the right to stage the 2006 World Cup. The Scottish lawyer is the sole British representative on the 24-man executive committee which will decide who hosts the prestigious tournament at a two-day meeting in Zurich at […]