ZIMBABWEAN strike bowler Heath Streak has again been ruled out of the squad to play South Africa in the second Test of the two match home-away series in Harare on Thursday. Streak has been suffering from a knee injury which again flared up after surgery. The 13-man Zimbabwean squad shows three changes to the one […]

UGANDA’S Minister of State for Regional Cooperation Amama Mbabazi on Sunday played down the repudiation of a ceasefire pact by one faction involved in the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The head of the Ugandan-backed rebel Movement for the Liberation of Congo (MLC), Jean-Pierre Bemba, on Saturday said the ceasefire in DRC is […]

FIVE people were killed and another 10 injured when their village was struck by lightning in a violent thunderstorm that lashed the northern Transkei on Sunday. Umtata police said two people were killed instantly and 10 injured in a homestead in the Elliottdale district, while another three people were struck by lightning at a nearby […]

MICHAEL FINCH, Kimberley | Monday 9.00am. THANKS to two whirlwind innings’ from Hansie Cronje and Nicky Boje, Free State finally got the better of the plucky North West side to win their Supersport Series match by four wickets in Potchefstroom on Sunday. Cronje scored 44 off 40 balls (5×4, 1×6) and Boje 76 off 67 […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Cape Town | Monday 1.00pm. FORMER captain Michael Atherton and uncapped Chris Adams put on 147 to spare England’s blushes as they gave an otherwise indifferent batting display against the combined Western Province and Boland X1 on Sunday. Atherton scored 83 and Adams hit 89 in contrasting style in their fifth wicket stand […]

WICKETS were the order of the day with 15 falling in just two sessions as Gauteng recovered from a wretched batting collapse to have Easterns reeling when rain ended play at tea. Gauteng set Easterns a daunting target of 284 despite being bowled out for a paltry 122 on a treacherous, though innocuous-looking pitch. Easterns […]

STYMIED by rain and concern over the fitness of Allan Donald, Free State faced another day of toil against the gutsy North West side on the third day of their Supersport Series match on Saturday. At the close, the Series minnows, North West, had fought their way to 203 for six – an overall lead […]

EARL Spencer, the brother of the late Princess Diana, is being accused by his former housekeeper of being a cheapskate. Virginia Ganyaza said Spencer paid her only R55 per day during the two years that she worked for him in his mansion in Cape Town, refused to allow her time off to attend Sunday church […]

THE Eastern Cape health department, its services threatened with collapse within five years by an overload of Aids patients and its budget facing over-expenditure of R200 million this year as it struggles with a near billion rand shortfall, has announced plans to rationalise state hospitals and seek private sector partnerships. Eastern Cape Health MEC Dr […]

NEARLY a century after the end of the Boer Wars, Ottawa is starting to pay South Africa to look after the graves of Canadian soldiers who died in the conflict. Canada’s Department of Veterans Affairs is sending R12000 to the National Monuments Council in South Africa as an initial contribution to cost of maintaining the […]