SRI Lankan skipper Sanath Jayasuria took four for 41 as Sri Lanka rallied to beat Zimbabwe by 13 runs with five balls to spare in the second one-day international in Bulawayo on Sunday. Zimbabwe restricted the touring side to 213 with Russel Arnold holding the batting side together with his maiden one-day century. But Zimbabwe […]

AFRICAN Champions League draw released in Tunis at the weekend: Preliminary round Port Authority (Gam) v LPRC Oilers (Lbr) Tusker (Ken) v Red Sea (Eri) Villa (Uga) v St George (Eth) Vital’O (Bdi) v Bata Bullets (Maw) Dragons Oueme (Ben) v Renaissance (Cha) Praia Cruz (Sao) v Caf champions Primeiro Agosto (Ang) v Akonangui (Geq) […]

THE Lusaka High Court has ordered the release of nine Ukrainians and a Zambian charged with espionage after the government decided against prosecuting them, their lawyer said on Monday. Lawyer Sakbwiba Sikota said the authorities have given the defendants until Friday to leave the country. The defendants were arrested in August for allegedly overflying a […]

BOWLING has gone professional. The executive of Bowls South Africa have endorsed and supported the formation of the Professional Bowlers Association of South Africa. The PBA has been formed primarily as a way to give players the chance to earn a living from the sport by generating more events, sponsorship and television coverage of top […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Monday 7.00pm. WICKET KEEPER Mark Boucher had most to gain when his captain Hansie Cronje chose to prolong the second test against England on Monday despite a positive result looking almost impossible. Boucher had 99 test dismissals when the captains first had the opportunity to call the match off half […]

MALAWI and Rwanda drew 1-1 in Blantyre on Monday in a friendly match intended to prepare the teams for World Cup qualifiers next year. The two countries also drew 1-1 on Saturday in Lilongwe. Rwanda meet Cote d’Ivoire and Malawi play Kenya during April in two-leg World Cup ties.

THE National Union of Mineworkers on Monday called on the government to suspend the liquidators of East Rand Proprietary Mines and launch a full investigation into their activities, according to the Business Report. ERPM was placed in liquidation in July this year. Last week it was sold to a black-owned mining company, Khumo Bathong. NUM […]

AN armed gang opened fire on a convoy carrying the governor of Nigeria’s economic capital, Lagos, but he escaped after guards shot and killed four assailants, the city’s police chief said on Monday. Governor Bola Tinubu’s convoy was returning to his official residence in the early hours of Sunday morning from an inspection tour when […]

INKATHA Freedom Party MP Themba Khoza was implicated in the murder of African National Congress leader Sam Ntuli in the early 1990s at a Truth and Reconciliation Commission amnesty hearing on Thursday. Khoza was implicated by IFP member Thulani Tsotetsi, who is seeking amnesty for involvement in the killings of six people between 1992 and […]

PARENTS of black pupils attending Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal have asked the Human Rights Commission to investigate racism in the school. The parents say in a memorandum that the principal and the school’s governing body are taking no steps to deal with racism. The school attracted international attention in 1997 when it tried […]