SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Monday 5.00pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange pulled back in the afternoon after heading back down towards the 9000 mark in earlier trade. Dealers said the early fall, somewhat of a pattern of late, was largely a result of futures trade. The fall pulled bargain hunters into the market in the […]

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi, Gabon | Monday 10.00am. South Africa 3 (Bartlett 54, 77, Ngobe 42) Gabon 1 (Nzigou 20) THE African Nations Cup is a marathon, not a sprint, and Bafana Bafana did enough in central Ghana on Sunday night to suggest they can make a serious challenge for a trophy held by Egypt. Teams […]

BOBBY Skinstad, the flashy Springbok loose forward who promised so much but delivered so litte at last year’s World Cup, has been ruled out of rugby for at least eight weeks. This will cause the current Bok number eight to miss the start of the Super 12 season, leaving the Stormers without their designated captain. […]

HIJACKERS shot a man in the head and pistol-whipped his female companion before throwing the couple down a slope on Tafelberg Road in Cape Town, a few metres from the Table Mountain cableway station in the early hours of Sunday. Police said the couple Maria Beukes, 37, and her companion known only as Johnny had […]

ISSA Hayatou of Cameroon comfortably won re-election as president of the African Football Confederation (CAF) in Accra on Thursday. Hayatou defeated Angolan Armando Machado 47-4 at the 24th CAF congress to win a fourth four-year term. It was the first time he was opposed for the position. The 53-year-old former Cameroon athlete said that he […]

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 […]

FRENCHMAN Jean-Louis Schlesser claimed victory on Sunday in the auto class of the 2000 Paris-Dakar-Cairo rally at the foot of the Giza pyramids. The result is yet to be officially confirmed but Schlesser, like compatriot Richard Sainct for the motos, had dominated the 17-stage, 11000km trek interrupted by an airlift over Niger because of terrorist […]