OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Wednesday 6.30pm. AN explosive half-century by Lance Klusener enabled South Africa to fight back after a poor start on the first day of the second Test at St Georges Park Thursday. Klusener hit an unbeaten 63 off 71 balls as South Africa reached 253 for six before bad light brought […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 9.30am. STEFFI Graf was in blistering form as she blasted South Africa’s Amanda Coetzer 6-3, 7-6 (7-3) in the opening match of the Spar Challenge tennis tournament at Westridge Park on Tuesday evening. Graf was given a standing ovation as she walked out onto the court, and the spectators […]

ZAMBIA were merciless in their Cosafa Cup match against Namibia at Vosloorus Stadium on Tuesday, beating their hapless opponents 5-0. The Chipolopolo scored four goals in the first half to put the match out of the reach of the Namibians. Striker Solomon Banda drew first blood when he scored in the sixth minute beating goalkeeper […]

THE South African Women’s Cricket Association (SAWCA) announced on Tuesday that they will wearing the Protea national emblem when representing the country in the Women’s World Cup in New Zealand next year. The squad previously competed under the banner of the United Cricket Board. Three training camps will be held in preparation for the tournament […]

FIFTEEN people were killed when a five-storey building collapsed overnight in Fez in central Morocco, local authorities said in issuing a new provisional death toll on Wednesday. Another 37 were injured, including three seriously. Workers are still searching for further victims as well as for survivors. Cracks had recently appeared in the facade of the […]

TWO people were injured in a chemical explosion at a city centre satellite campus of Pretoria Technikon on Monday. Technikon spokeswoman Willa de Ruyter identified the two as Trevor Haug, 40, and Samuel Monageng, 35 — both technikon employees. She said the men were moving chemicals at the technikon’s natural sciences campus in Vermeulen Street […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Durban | Wednesday 7.00am. Manning Rangers …. (0) 0 Free State Stars … (1) 1 (Tsiu 45) SO there is room in South African soccer for fairytales after all as Free State Stars reached the Rothmans Cup final on Tuesday night against all the odds. Few gave the QwaQwa-based club much hope after […]

BRONWEN ROBERTS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 12.45pm. FORMER Ethiopian dictator Mengistu Haile Mariam, wanted by Addis Ababa on charges of genocide, left South Africa before a formal request for his extradition had been received, a presidential aide said on Wednesday. Mengistu travelled to South Africa last month from his home in exile in Zimbabwe for heart […]

COMMUNICATIONS Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri said on Monday she will block the awarding of a third cellular licence if evidence of bid tampering comes to light. But Matsepe-Casaburri added that despite two probes over allegations of corruption in the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority (Satra), the evaluation of bids for the lucrative licence is on schedule. […]

A NORTHERN Province Zionist priest allegedly castrated a five-year-old boy while the child was still alive. Jan Skosana, 33, of Winterveldt in the North-West Province, made a brief appearance on a murder charge in the Mankweng Magistrate’s Court on Monday. Skosana was arrested on Sunday, allegedly with the genitals in a plastic bag, when security […]