AN electrical or fuel supply fault downed the Piper Chieftain that crashed after take-off from Rand airport on Monday, killing 10 people. The Star reports that civil aviation investigators found that one of the plane’s two engine’s failed as it took off. Civil Aviation Authority technical adviser Rennie van Zyl told the newspaper that the […]

STEVEN MANN, Stellenbosch | Friday 6.00pm. AMANDA Coetzer served well and hit some blistering backhands to beat Steffi Graf in three sets on Friday, avenging her defeat at the hands of the German on Tuesday. The diminutive South Africa’s victory draws the Spar Challenge exhibition series to one all, with a final match to be […]

SOUTH Africa will meet New Zealand in the semi-finals after overturning a 7-0 deficit to oust Canada 17-7 in their Cup quarterfinal of the IRB World Sevens Series in Stellenbosch. The boks went down 7-0 early on in the game when Nik Witkowski scored under the posts. In other Cup quarterfinals, favourites Fiji edged Samoa […]

THE number of air crashes in the past week has risen to three, with at least five people killed in two separate aircraft crashes in Mpumalanga on Friday. On Monday 10 people died in a plane crash in Germiston, one of the worst civil aviation accidents in almost twenty years. The Civil Aviation Authority said […]

PERSISTENT rain forced the abandonment of the first of five one-day matches between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka at Bulawayo on Saturday. Zimbabwe were 65 for one after 14.5 overs in reply to Sri Lanka’s 284 for nine when the match was called off. Three half centuries and steady scoring down the order took Sri Lanka […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rustenburg | Saturday 6.30pm. FRENCH-born striker Alain Amougou scored the goal that set up Sundowns for a 2-0 victory over Free State Stars in the Rothmans Cup final here on Saturday. Dreadlocked Amougou struck after 37 minutes with a shot from just inside the penalty area that took a deflection off Zambian defender […]

THE Virginia Regional Court on Wednesday imposed a R500000 fine on the management of Rovic diamond mine after 20 people were killed in a mudslide in November 1996, SABC radio news reported on Thursday. On December 1, the manager of the mine near Dealesville in the Free pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter. Pieter Smith […]

SOUTH African defender Lucas Radebe scored in the dying minutes to give Leeds United a 1-0 win over Spartak Moscow on Thursday night and a place in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup. Radebe’s late strike lifted the English Premiership side into a 2-2 third round aggregate draw with the Russians and they advanced […]

SOUTH African soccer skipper Lucas Radebe has added his voice to those campaigning the country’s hosting of the 2006 World Cup. Radebe has told the British media that his country is ready to host the finals and said “There is no doubt South Africa is ready.” Radebe, who is also the skipper of his English […]

POLICE are on Friday searching for the body of a man who was apparently eaten by crocodiles in the Sabie River in the Kruger National Park at the weekend, SABC television news reported on Thursday night. Mike Webber, a friend and a four-year-old child were swimming in the river when Webber shouted that there were […]