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 […]

GOVERNMENT is drafting a bill that will make a property’s market value the sole means of assessing property taxes. Business Day reports that the legislation will introduce a single formula for calculating property taxes, replacing the 14 disparate methods currently in use. The bill aims at bringing untaxed areas into the tax net, applying a […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 6.00pm. A POSITIVE finish on Wall Street and sturdier domestic bond and rand markets jacked up shares on the JSE for the second session in a row on Wednesday, but stocks soon gave away some opening gains. Diamond giant De Beers , the exchange’s third biggest stock by value, jumped […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 10.00am. THE suspended chief executive officer of the Premier Soccer League Joe Ndhlela allegedly bought clothing worth R1,3-million while appointing himself and the PSL accountant as signatories to a new PSL bank account. This is according to a charge sheet tabled at the PSL’s special tribunal on Tuesday, The Star […]

FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Phillipe Troussier says his future as Japan’s coach is in the balance. The ”white witchdoctor” began a two year contract in September 1998 and is preparing his team for a series of six matches in Hong Kong, Macua and Japan. He ruled out fellow Frenchman and Arsenal coach Arsene Wenger taking […]

FOURTEEN people died at the weekend after armed robbers spread oil over a major expressway out of Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos causing three vehicles to slide and crash, police said on Tuesday. The accident took place on Friday evening when a gang of robbers hidden by the side of the road hurled rocks at a […]