SOUTH Africa A captain Dale Benkenstein won the toss and elected to bat first against Sri Lanka A in their second four-day tour match at the Oval in Pietermaritzburg on Thursday. Teams: South Africa A: Mark Bruyns, Doug Watson, Dale Benkenstein (capt), Ashwell Prince, Arno Jacobs, Pieter Strydom, Justin Kemp, Wendell Bossenger, Shafiek Abrahams, Mornantau […]

POLICE, soldiers and traffic officials impounded more than 60 minibus taxis in Umtata in a five-day joint operation which ended on Wednesday, police said. Commander of the public order police unit, Senior Superintendent Wayne Hackart said the operation targeted all five taxi ranks in the Umtata town centre following clashes between different taxi groups.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 5.00pm. BLACK fast bowler Walter Masimula lined up for a combined provincial team against the touring England side in Centurion Thursday as a new race row hit South African cricket. There was an outcry when only white players were picked to represent a combined Gauteng and Northerns XI against […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Thursday 7.15pm. ZIMBABWE captain Andy Flower led from the front with a gritty 86 in his team’s uneven batting display on the opening day of the first test against Sri Lanka on Thursday. Flower, in his second spell as skipper after recently taking over from Alistair Campbell, received his most effective […]

TOP SA soccer club Kaizer Chiefs will end a six year, self-imposed exile from Pan-African soccer competitions by playing in the 2000 Caf cup. Also entering with the league runners-up are champions Sundowns and cup winners SuperSport United.

THE national Miss Gay SA beauty contest, due to be held in the Nelspruit civic centre on Saturday night, is receiving international media attention after a report earlier in the week that a conservative church is calling for its cancellation. Now international press have picked up on the story with CNN due to conduct interviews […]

CELLULAR telephone company MTN announced that it is to invest R54 million into cricket development over the next seven years, making it the game’s biggest national development sponsor, and the biggest sponsor of national schools cricket. The programme, the single biggest development sponsorship in the history of South African sport, will run until the end […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has been appointed as the first chairman of the Commonwealth. The new position was created by the organisation at the end of its heads of governemnt meeting in Durban on Monday. Mbeki will hold the position until the next Commonwealth meeting in 2001. Traditionally the head of state of the host nation […]

THE Pretoria High Court came to a grinding halt on Wednesday morning after an anonymous caller threatened to blow up the court building unless the trial of apartheid chemical head Wouter Basson was adjourned. Police said an anonymous caller told court security that three bombs had been planted on different floors in the court and […]

BRITAIN’S Lennox Lewis has been recognised as undisputed world heavyweight champion after the resolution of a cash row between his backers and the International Boxing Federation (IBF). “Thankfully, the lawyers representing us and the IBF have worked it out and Lennox is now recognised as the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world,” Lewis’s manager Frank […]