MALAWI national coach Jack Chamangwana has been sacked and replaced by former international player Young Chimodzi, a Malawi football association official said on Monday. The national team lost 2-1 to Libya and twice drew 1-1 with Rwanda this month in home matches designed to prepare the Flames for their World Cup qualifiers against Kenya during […]

LAURIE Mains will not be leaving the Golden Lions and the Cats for a New Zealand coaching post, says his boss, Golden Lions president Jomo King. King said Mains, in New Zealand on holiday, has a three-year contract at Ellis Park and would be returning on Januray 17. “I’ve spoken to him again and there […]

FANYANA MABUZA, Mbabane | Monday 4.30pm. SWAZILAND’S Under-20 soccer team insisted this weekend that it cheated at the recent regional championships in South Africa purely for patriotic reasons. National Football Association of Swaziland secretary general, Mike Vilikazi, said at the weekend the team fielded over-aged players in an attempt to impress judges and boost the […]

ALAN FINLAY, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. THE JSE lost some ground on Tuesday after Monday’s surge ending the day 1,15% or 97 points down. One analyst said investors were tightening their positions ahead of a US interest rate decision by the Federal Open Market Commission expected on Tuesday night. The industrial index ended 0,17% or […]

L ONDON-listed Anglo American Plc said on Friday that it has lifted its stake in Anglo American Platinum Corp (Amplats) to 50,23%. Anglo, which previously made clear its intention to secure a majority holding in the world’s largest platinum producer, increased its holding to 48% last month from 45% at the time of its listing […]

PASSENGERS left stranded when their ship broke down off the French west coast in November have finally arrived on the remote South Atlantic island of St. Helena. St. Helena Line general manager Tony Bownes said a replacement ship, the Greek-registered MTS Jason, arrived on Saturday at St. Helena, a British overseas territory, with 223 passengers […]

BURKINO Faso claimed their first international club prize when ASFA Yennenga lifted the West African Football Union (WAFU) Cup in Ouagadougou at the weekend with a 3-2 final win over Stade Abidjan. ASFA levelled twice through Amadou Toure after Lacina Traore had struck two goals for the Cote d’Ivoire team and Burkinabe national team midfielder […]

THE Department of Correctional Services said on Tuesday it is considering a total ban on smoking in prisons as one way of complying with the government’s proposed tobacco regulations. The draft regulations, issued for comment on December 3, will allow prison authorities to set aside designated smoking areas or rooms in jails. However these rooms […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 12.40pm THE Consumer Price Index for November released on Tuesday showed consumer prices rose 1,9% year-on-year compared with a 1,7% rise in October. Core inflation rose 8,1% year-on-year versus 8 percent in October. Economists are mixed about how to read the data. ”It is worse than we had been looking […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, East London | Tuesday 8.30pm. MARK Ramprakash has been called up for England’s tour to South Africa as cover for injured batsman Michael Vaughan. The Middlesex captain was chosen ahead of official stand-by batsmen Nick Knight and Graeme Hick and will fly out to join the rest of the 17-man party in Durban […]