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 […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Witbank | Saturday 5.15pm. TONY Brown kicked an injury time penalty to secure the Highlanders a 42-40 Super 12 win over the Northern Bulls at the Johan van Riebeck Stadium in Witbank on Saturday. The flyhalf, who contributed 17 points through four conversions and three penalties, consigned the bottom-of-the-table Bulls to their tenth […]
A NEW strain of the virus that on Thursday attacked computer systems across the world causing billions of dollars of damage has emerged. “LOVE BUG 2” is again e-mail based, this time in the form of an e-mail with a joke attachment. Experts believe the new variant has been devised by a “copycat” programmer using […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Witbank | Saturday 5.15pm. TONY Brown kicked an injury time penalty to secure the Highlanders a 42-40 Super 12 win over the Northern Bulls at the Johan van Riebeck Stadium in Witbank on Saturday. The flyhalf, who contributed 17 points through four conversions and three penalties, consigned the bottom-of-the-table Bulls to their tenth […]
THE attempted rape charges against Stormers and Springbok rugby player Robbie Kempson were dropped on Thursday after Western Cape director of public prosecutions Frank Kahn declined to prosecute. After careful consideration of the evidence, Kahn said there was no reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution. Kempson was arrested by Claremont detectives at his home on […]
A BABY boom has left the Hurricanes depleted ahead of their Super 12 game against the Stormers in Cape Town on Sunday. Prop Gordon Slater and winger Tana Umaga are on “baby leave” awaiting the birth of their partners’ children. To make matters worse, winger Jonah Lomu is suspended for two weeks while hooker and […]