DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. WORLD Boxing Organisation junior middleweight champion Harry Simon will have to defend his title against the WBO’s top-rated contender before embarking on his campaign to meet International Boxing Federation kingpin Fernando Vargas. It was announced on Tuesday that Simon will face Rodney Jones on 19 February in Dagenham, England. […]

CAPE Town dropped out of the running of the for the 2008 Summer Olympics, when they did not submit their preliminary bid application with the International Olympic Committee on Tuesday. Beijing is the early favourite of the ten cities which submitted bids, including Bangkok, Cairo, Havana, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur, Osaka, Paris, Seville and Toronto. Buenos […]

BLACK empowerment group New Africa Investments Ltd (Nail), said on Monday that it has spun off its media assets into a separate entity as part of its ongoing restructuring. “New Africa Media (NAM), at this stage a wholly owned subsidiary of Nail, will assume control of all Nail’s media assets and hopes to list in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Wednesday 4.15pm. THE Southern African Develpment Community has warned that at least 200 people are dying of hunger each day in Angola, where fighting has disrupted farming activities. “An escalation in civil strife has made an already precarious food situation even worse,” the SADC said in a report released this week. […]

A FIRE broke out in the mountains above Cape Town’s plush Llandudno suburb on Wednesday afternoon, but was quickly bought under control. About six hectares of mountainside was burnt in the Suikerbossie area, but no property was threatened and all roads remained open, South Peninsula nunicipality officials said. Three helicopters were used to waterbomb the […]

FORMULA One boss Eddie Jordan on Wednesday called for Africa to be put back on the grand prix calendar. The last race on African soil was the South African Grand Prix in 1993 on the Kyalami circuit and Jordan insists it is time Africa hosted another race. “We should have and must strive earnestly to […]

THE Cte d’Ivoire’s football team is expected to be released on Wednesday after being held at a military camp outside Yamoussoukro after their defeat in the African Nations Cup, star footballer Basile Boli said. Boli, a former French player of Ivorian descent, planned to visit the Zambakro camp but cancelled his trip after receiving a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Wednesday 11.00pm. ZIMBABWE beat South Africa for the first time on home soil when they triumphed by two wickets at Kingsmead in Durban. In a thrilling finale, the Zimbabweans scampered the winning run off the last ball, after a succession of dot-balls brought the required rate down to a run a […]

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 […]