OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 8.00am. RIOT police were called in on Tuesday to break up clashes between drivers fighting over scarce diesel in Harare’s working-class suburb of Kuwadzana, the domestic Ziana news agency reported. Witnesses said drivers engaged in fistfights and hurled rocks at each other after some mini-bus drivers tried to jump a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.30am. TEST players Daryll Cullinan and Makhaya Ntini were handed suspended sentences on Tuesday following a verbal confrontation in the final of the Supersport Series. Gauteng batsman Cullinan was suspended for two matches while Border fast bowler Ntini was banned for one match. Both sentences were suspended until the end […]

NADER al-Sayed had the rare experience of collecting the ball from the back of the net as defending champions Egypt stormed into the African Cup of Nations quarterfinals on Tuesday. Al-Sayed surrendered a 489-minute unbeaten record spanning two editions of the biennial football showcase on Tuesday when Ismael Koudou of Burkina Faso blasted the ball […]

MEMBERS of Côte d’Ivoire’s football team were being held in the capital Yamoussoukro on Tuesday, following their elimination from the African Nations Cup, reliable sources said. The players passports and cellphones have apparently been confiscated, although a source said this was standard practice when the players regrouped for a rest. The source, who asked not […]

FORMER African Footballer of the Year Kalusha Bwalya bade farewell to the Nations Cup after Zambia drew 2-2 with Senegal in Group C on Tuesday and were eliminated. Senegal went through as runners-up while Egypt finished on top having maintained their 100% record coming from 2-0 down to beat Burkina Faso 4-2 in Kano. Bwalya […]

EGYPT is demanding $1.4-million from the organisers of the Paris-Dakar motor rally to make good the damage it inflicted on a nature reserve, the government daily Al-Akhbar reported on Tuesday. It said the Egyptian Environment Affairs Agency, part of the environment ministry, has lodged a complaint with the public prosecutor’s office against the organiser of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Wednesday 6.10pm. SOUTH Africa produced a late charge to set Zimbabwe a target of 223 in their triangular series limited-overs match at Kingsmead in Durban. The South Africans started well, but a huge collapse saw them in desperate trouble on 112/6 before Klusener and Jacques Kallis produced a partnership of 82 […]

REBELS and their Rwandan military allies beheaded 12 women in an attack on a village in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, a Kinshasa daily reported on Tuesday citing a local medical source. The massacre took place on January 5 in the village of Kasika in Mwenga territory in Sud-Kivu province, according to La Reference […]

COACH Jo Bonfrere has appealed for Nigerian fans to support the Super Eagles properly and not turn against the team if it fails to score early in Thursday’s crunch match against Morocco. Nigerian supporters went on the rampage last week, throwing bottles, attacking the players and smashing up the team bus and local football association […]

THE greater Johannesburg metropolitan council is selling Johanesburg’s athletics stadium as loan repayments drain council coffers. The council is paying R11m a year to service the R164m outstanding on a R87m loan that the council took out in 1995 to finance the building of the stadium. The aim was to use the stadium, situated next […]