TOUTS have bought up almost all the tickets for Sunday’s Egypt-Zambia African Nations Cup match, selling them at up to three times the face value, angry match organisers said on Monday. The touts pushed up prices from 200 to 600 naira ($2 – $6), pushing them out of the range of many ordinary Nigerian fans, […]

ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.30pm. SWEDEN’S Mathias Gronberg overcame a three hour lightning delay to win his third European Tour event by birdying the final hole of the South African Open at Randpark. In a breathless finish Gronberg’s score of 274, 14 under par pushed him a shot ahead of Nick Price and Ricardo […]

FORMER South Africa off-spinner Pat Symcox announced his retirement from first-class cricket on Friday. “The time has come to move on,” said Symcox, 39, who played 20 tests and 80 one-day internationals for his country. He made his first-class debut for Griqualand West in 1977-78 and was their captain this season. “My form for Griquas […]

HOLDERS Egypt will retain the African nations cup they won two years ago in Burkina Faso, Egypt’s coach Gerard Gili said on Monday. “My boys played very well in the first half and early in the second, but lost concentration after the second goal thus allowing Zambia to come close to scoring,” Gili said after […]

ALISTER BULL, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm SHARES in Standard Bank Investment Corp (Stanbic) and Nedcor slid on Monday as investors toed a cautious line ahead of Tuesday’s expected court hearing on their merger battle. Stanbic wants the High Court to decide which regulatory authority has jurisdiction to rule on whether Nedcor be allowed to make […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. A RECORD opening partnership between captain Nasser Hussain and Nick Knight swept England to a crushing nine-wicket win over South Africa in their one-day international on Sunday. England passed South Africa’s mediocre total of 184 in the 40th over, finishing on 185 for one. Fast bowler Darren Gough, the […]

SHAUN Manion, the 22-year-old canoeist who nearly drowned in an accident on the first day of the Dusi Canoe Marathon on Thursday, remains in a coma on Saturday. Manion almost died when the canoe he was sharing with team-mate Alex Swift capsized and he got entangled in wire. He was pulled out about five minutes […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Sunday 4.30pm. CAMEROON dropped hints on Saturday in a 1-1 draw with African Nations Cup co-hosts Ghana that they are ready to reclaim their position as kings of African football. The opening match of the biennial, 16-team championship saw the Indomitable Lions from Central Africa create and waste a host of […]

THE cash-strapped National Symphony Orchestra, facing closure at the weekend, is involved in urgent talks with a number of potential sponsors Friday, NSO chairman Don MacRobert said on Friday. MacRobert said that he has been contacted by a banking group and a life assurance company, as well as a number of private citizens, offering to […]

PHILIPE BERNES-LASSERRE and EMSIE FERREIRA, Pretoria | Sunday 6.00pm THE vast numbers of Burundians fleeing their country have become Africa’s single biggest refugee crisis, UN High Commissioner for Refugees Sadako Ogata said in Pretoria on Saturday. “Just over the Christmas holiday some 20000 new persons arrived [in Tanzania] which makes the overall Burundian refugee situation […]