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 […]

CANOEIST Shaun Manion, 22, remains in a critical condition at the Mediclinic Hospital in Pietermaritzburg after almost drowning on the first day of the Dusi Canoe Marathon. Manion, from Durban, was underwater for almost seven minutes before fellow canoeists finally reached him. He was not breathing and his heart was not beating. According to hospital […]

THE cash-strapped National Symphony Orchestra has closed down after it was unable to find the R10-million it needs to continue. NSO leader Caius Oprea said on Sunday they have been informed that the institution has run out of money. “We were told that we may even not be paid for this month, meaning that we […]

AROUND 100 people have been killed including 30 soldiers and 20 civilians since the Algerian government unleashed a drive to wipe out Islamic rebels who refuse to lay down their arms. Government forces are fighting two hardline Armed Islamic Group units at Remka in the Relizane region, about 350km west of the capital Algiers. Between […]

VETERAN Western Province coach and administrator Norman Mbiko has been appointed coach of the South African National Sevens team. Mbiko, who was named as coach on Thursday, will be in charge of the team until the conclusion of the current IRB World Sevens Series, ending in France in May. Mbiko takes over from Deon Oosthuizen […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.15am. TWENTY-SIX people were killed and 52 injured when a another bus left the road and overturned between Queenstown and Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape on Sunday night. The accident happened around 6pm, about 25km from Queenstown, after a white VW Golf apparently tried to overtake the bus in wet […]

THE Mauritian government has launched a bid to attract investments from multinationals into the country. The package of incentives include a 10-year tax holiday for investors after which the investor would only pay 15 percent annual tax on his outlay. Dividends, acquisition of equipment and vehicles are among the items which will be exempted from […]

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 […]