BAFANA Bafana are rated 20th in the latest Fifa world football rankings, a jump of four places. Brazil continue to lead the rankings, with the Czech Republic remaining in second spot ahead of world champions. Egypt moved up five places to 32, and Ghana recorded the biggest improvement to jump ten places to 47th thanks […]

THE Stormers will field an unchanged side from the one that beat the Hurricanes 43-23 last week when they clash with the Sharks at King’s Park on Saturday. Skipper Corne Krige and Robbie Kempson, both with injury niggles, are expected to be fit before the weekend. Stormers: Percy Montgomery, Breyton Paulse, Robbie Fleck, De Wet […]

ZAMBIAN Defence Minister Chitalu Sampa on Wednesday accused Angolan government soldiers of entering the country and attacking Zambian troops patrolling the northwestern border. Sampa said at least one Zambian soldier was killed and three were wounded in two attacks last month along the border with the war-torn Angola, which has accused Lusaka of backing the […]

TRAFFIC flowing into major centres was backed up on Wednesday, ahead of a planned nationwide strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to protest job losses and retrenchments. The strike is expected to cost the country R3,2-billion. Cosatu said the strike has been called because because mediation body Nedlac has “failed to address […]

TRADING group Lonrho Africa said on Monday that it has completed its sale of Lonrho Africa Cotton, the holding company of its cotton ginning operation in Zambia, to the unit of a US cotton merchant for $5,85-million. Lonrho Africa, which was demerged from the mining interests of the late Tiny Rowland’s Lonrho empire in 1998, […]

JOANETTE Kruger has withdrawn from the South African Fed Cup team to play in a Euro/Africa Group One qualifying tournament in La Manga, Spain, next week. Kruger’s teammate Liezel Horn said that she received an e-mail from Kruger where she said that she was carrying a knee injury and did not want to jeopardise the […]

WORKERS affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions downed tools across the country on Wednesday to protest job losses and unemployment plaguing the economy. In Durban, police fired teargas at about 300 residents of the Lamontville township who were trying to force others to heed the strike call, police said. The mob stoned […]

DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.30am SOUTH Africa’s Frans Botha has come out firing in reaction to criticisms about his July 15 bout with Lennox Lewis for the universal heavyweight world title. Botha claims that he is the best heavyweight around, saying: “Believe me, the guys out there are all over-rated.” “Lewis, Evander Holyfield, Mike […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.30pm. RALLYING resource shares kept the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on positive ground but morning firmness in industrial counters eroded later by a weaker opening on Wall St and an ailing rand. Commodity-based shares moved from strength to strength, as investors piled into export-oriented companies as a currency protection against a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 3.20pm. PAPER and pulp manufacturer Sappi beat market forecasts on Monday with a 93% surge in first-half earnings, boosted by higher global paper prices and tight cost controls in a performance that sent its shares flying. The global paper and pulp group, which has operations across South Africa, Europe and […]