ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Kumasi | Friday 1.30pm. IT may not have always been pretty, but it was a pretty effective display by Bafana Bafana as they became the first team to qualify for the African Nations Cup quarter-finals on Thursday night. Shaun Bartlett raised his tournament tally to three with an opportunist goal in first-half injury […]

NIGERIA’S football players have rejected the win bonus for their 4-2 African Nations Cup victory over Tunisia at the weekend. “In Spain, both the players and NFA (Nigerian Football Federation) agreed that for every match won we will get $3000 each,” said one of the players who did not want to be named. “But when […]

SOUTH Africa will play one-day internationals against India at Cochin, Jamshedpur, Faridabad, Baroda and Nagpur in March, an official of the Board of Cricket Control in India (BCCI) said on Friday. India had delayed finalising the schedule of the one-day series with the South Africans, who are scheduled to open their tour with a three-day […]

THE United Nations on Friday appealed for $190-million to avert another major humanitarian crisis in Ethiopia. “If adequate assistance is slow in arriving, the crisis (of 1999) will not only return but will be much larger in magnitude and severity and certainly more costly to mitigate,” according to a statement released by the UN country […]

A SENEGALESE judge began hearing harrowing testimony of torture and killings against exiled former Chadian dictator Hissene Habre in a landmark human rights case in Africa. Lawyers said four Chadians who say they were tortured by Habre’s henchmen during his 1982-90 rule filed into the chambers of Judge Boucounca Diallo of the Regional Court in […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 4.00pm. HITCHES in South Africa’s free trade deal with the European Union over the use of the terms grappa and ouzo are unacceptable, Britain’s visiting minister for Africa Peter Hain has told The Sunday Independent. “I share South Africa’s intense frustration with the way in which all our interests are […]

THE financial markets watchdog had opened 10 new investigations in the past three months into suspicious share dealings on the JSE, according to the Insider Trading Directorate. But it has not brought any fresh legal action against individuals for the exploitation of privileged information to profit from share trading, according to a statement from its […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm. THE Supersport Series final at the Wanderers is intriguingly poised at the end of the second day. Gauteng are 221-3 in reply to Border’s total of 346, trailing by 125 runs with seven wickets in hand. The key wicket of Daryll Cullinan is still intact, but the second new […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.00pm. ZIMBABWE paceman Henry Olonga sent England to a hefty 104-run one-day defeat on Friday. Olonga ripped through the top five in the England batting order and finished with a personal best six for 19 — the finest figures by a Zimbabwean in the limited overs format. England fell for […]