OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bamako | Saturday 8.00pm. JAPAN’s Kenjiro Shinozuka and Spain’s Joan Roma won the third stage of the Paris-Dakar rally on Saturday to extend their overall lead in the car and motorbike sections. Shinozuka, in his Mitsubishi, slightly increased his advantage in this 670km stretch with 399km of specials between Nioro and Bamako in […]
<b>Review: Double Jeopardy</b>
Shunned by Cinema Nouveau, Durban has far from accepted defeat on the alternative film front, reports Alex Sudheim.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Dakar | Thursday 8.00pm. LAST year’s Paris-Dakar motorcycle winner Richard Sainct laid down the gauntlet right from the start of this year’s even on Thursday as he won the 588km first special from Dakar to Tambacounda on his BMW. The Frenchman, who finished 40 seconds ahead of Spaniard Juan Roma and 2min 09sec […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Perth | Friday 2.00pm. SOUTH Africa will meet Thailand’s tennis minnows for the Hopman Cup on Saturday in Perth following the Thai team’s giant-killing run to the final of the A$900000 mixed teams tournament. The Thai pair of Paradorn Srichaphan and Tamarine Tanasugarn have upset fancied teams including hosts Australia and Slovakia in […]
PERFECT sailing conditions have been forecast for the start of the sixth Cape-to-Rio yacht race, which gets under way on Saturday at 3pm from the Cape Town harbour. A record 80 boats from nine different countries are contesting the highly tactical race of more than 3000 nautical miles. Nine yachts in the slower cruising class […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 4.30pm. THE battle lines have been drawn for control of African football with supremo Issa Hayatou of Cameroon facing opposition for the first time since taking charge 12 years ago. African Football Confederation (CAF) president Hayatou, 53, a former international athlete who has twice been re-elected unopposed, will be challenged […]
AFRICAN Footballer of the Year Nwankwo Kanu has been ordered to report to Nigeria’s African Nations Cup training camp by Friday at the latest despite his English club Arsenal insisting that he must play a cup game this weekend. “Kanu’s release is not negotiable,” said the secretary-general of Nigeria Football Association (NFA), Tijjani Yusuf. “Kanu […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Thursday 4.30pm. AN inspection team from the Confederation of African Football (CAF) has given pass marks to the two Nigerian stadiums that will stage the 22nd African Nations Cup from January 23. “Everything we have seen so far has been positive,” said the leader of the two-man team, General Zoumaro Gnofane […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 3.45pm. THE British press has accused the touring England team of raising the white flag after they were handed a series defeat by South Africa on Wednesday. The South Africans won the fourth Test at Newlands by an innings and 37 runs to take a winning 2-0 lead in […]