ENIWOKE IBAGERE, Lagos | Monday 5.30pm. NIGERIA’s national soccer team captain and Turkey-based striker Daniel Amokachi will not make the final squad for the African Nations’ Cup tournament because of injury, assistant team coach Amodu Shaibu said. Shaibu said injuries and lack of form among key players had significantly weakened the side before the contest […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Monday 3.00pm. ERNIE Els found himself on the receiving end of yet another Tiger Woods PGA Tour blitz when he lost the season-opening Mercedes Championship played at Kapalua, Hawaii in a playoff on Sunday. Woods birdied the second extra hole to beat the South Arican after a riveting final-round head-to-head […]

FOREIGN affairs media director Marco Boni on Friday lost his bid in the Pretoria High Court to order his minister, Nkosazana Zuma, to grant him a voluntary severance package worth more than R800000. Boni had claimed that deputy foreign minister Aziz Pahad approved the package on November 1 last year. On November 29, Boni received […]

ABOUT 1000 members of the extremist Islamic group Qibla staged a peaceful protest in the streets of Cape Town on Friday, burning American, Israeli and Russian flags. Chanting “One Zionist, one bullet,” and “Death to America,” the protestors marched through the center of town first to the Russian consulate, and then to the American consulate, […]

THE ANC headquarters in central Johannesburg were evacuated on Friday morning following a bomb-scare. ANC Chief Information Officer Smuts Ngonyama said security personnel were told that there was an explosive device in the building and relayed the information to the authorities. The bomb incident comes a day before the party celebrates its 88th anniversary on […]

LAZARUS Zim, Managing Director of M-Net has joined the board of Supersport United Football Club, serving as Vice Chairman. The announcement was made at the team’s headquarters by SuperSport United Chairman Khulu Sibiya. Zim is no stranger to football administration, having served as a director and secretary of Free State Stars in the late 80’s […]

ZAMBIA suffered another shock in their build up to the African Nations Cup when they lost 4-3 to the Zimbabwe Olympic team on Saturday. Dennis Lota, Bernard Makufi and Andrew Sinkala, who play their club football in South Africa, Sweden and Germany respectively, scored for Chipolopolo (Copper Bullets). Zambia, who launch their Nations Cup Group […]

THE sixth MTN Cape-to-Rio yacht race got off to a slow start on Saturday, with hardly enough wind to fill the sails of the 71-boat fleet. The weather and smooth water was however perfect for hundreds of spectators who took to the water in all kinds of craft to watch the start of the race, […]

FORMER French champions Lens said on Friday that they are prepared to ignore Ghana’s demand that midfielder Alex Nyarko join his national side this weekend to prepare for the African Nations Cup. A Lens spokesman said that they want to keep the 26-year-old until after their crucial relegation clash with Nancy on January 12. “We […]

THE African National Congress celebrated its 88th birthday with rallies across the country on Saturday. ANC president Thabo Mbeki addressed the official meeting in the Northern Province where he launched 2000 as the ANC’s year of the dawn of the African century. In KwaZulu-Natal provincial ANC chairman S’bu Ndebele addressed a crowd of supporters at […]