BANGLADESH’S cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage last month, has “improved a little” and is able to speak, his wife Cally said on Sunday. She said he had been given physiotherapy for paralysis of the left side of his body. Barlow will be flown to Singapore on Monday for an examination at […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.15pm. THE country’s biggest banking trade union said it will hold protest meetings in major cities across the country on Friday to show its opposition to banking group Nedcor’s bid for rival Stanbic. Sasbo, which has 65000 members, has been vocal in its criticism of the proposed takeover on the […]
MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Monday 12.45pm NIGERIA’S miserable record in Africa’s leading club competition looks set to continue after Lobi Stars were held to a 1-1 draw in their second round, first leg African Champions League match at home by Angolan opposition on Sunday. No Nigerian team has ever won the African Champions League since […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. THE rand slid again on Monday afternoon, hit by fresh weakness in the euro and offshore selling in New York as US players returned to the market after triggering a slide in the local currency to record lows last week. The rand was last trading at R6,98 to dollar […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jolo | Monday 11.20am. A PHILIPPINE television crew on Sunday caught images of 21 mostly foreign hostages huddled in a forest clearing, looking helpless and stricken with grief. The hostages — two South Africans, nine Malaysians, three Germans, two French, two Finns, two Filipinos and a Lebanese — have been in Jolo since […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Sunday 5.15pm. FLYHALF Braam van Straaten contributed 28 points as the Stormers claimed a vital Super 12 bonus point by beating the ill-disciplined Hurricanes 43-23 at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Sunday. Van Straaten, the front runner for the Springbok number 10 berth, charged over for the fourth try […]
TWENTY-five people have been killed in renewed fighting between residents of two feuding towns in southwest Nigeria. Dozens more have been injured and are being treated in hospital after fighting broke out in the early hours of Thursday between residents of the towns of Ife and Modakeke, according to the reports in local newspapers. The […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm PHUMLANI Mkhize scored two goals and could have doubled his tally as Orlando Pirates defeated Hellenic 2-0 in a one-sided Castle Premiership match at chilly FNB Stadium. With Sibusiso Zuma gone to Denmark and Siyabonga Nomvete being wooed by clubs in England, Germany and Italy, Mkhize is the only […]
THE Million Dollar Challenge, played at Sun City, has announced that it will double the winners’ purse to $2-million and undergo a name change. The tournament will henceforth be known as the Nedbank Golf Challenge and will sport by far the largest winner’s check in the game. Tournament director Alistair Roper said that the prize-money […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 7.00pm. FORMER President Nelson Mandela levelled sharp criticism at Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during a speech delivered in Johannesburg over the weekend. In a thinly-veiled attack on ‘the tyrants of the world’, Mandela slammed the leaders of countries who enriched themselves at the cost of the poor. Asked whether this […]