OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 2.00pm. SENIOR Dutch coach Clemens Westerhof takes his magic soccer wand to Swaziland this weekend hoping to produce another win for Zimbabwe. Since assuming command this year of the perennial under achievers, Westerhof has stopped the rot with four victories and two draws. The most notable win came in Johannesburg […]
ERSKINE McCULLOGH, Carnoustie | Tuesday 10.30am. SOME of the biggest names in golf have been left quaking after their first meeting with the toughest course in British Open history. A stunned Ernie Els walked off the Carnoustie links shaking his head in disbelief after his sneak preview last week. “It’s quite unbelievable. I don’t think […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. AN 18-year search for one of South Africa’s most famous vessels, the SS Waratah, has come to an end. Her wreck was found off the eastern seaboard off the Transkei coast in June, marine explorer Emlyn Brown said on Wednesday. It was his ninth expedition since 1983 to find […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT & Reuters, Johannesburg | Tuesday 10.00am. THE coaches of South Africa’s two leading club sides have quit within days of each other just three weeks before the start of the new season. Romanian-born Ted Dumitru, who has spent almost 20 years coaching in Africa, resigned at champions Mamelodi Sundowns on Thursday, citing interference […]
BRITISH High Commissioner Dame Maeve Fort appears destined to spend the larger part of the next few months in quarters in Pretoria after fire gutted her official Cape Town residence on Tuesday afternoon. The fire — reportedly set off when maintenance workers used a blowtorch to heat tar while waterproofing the thatched roof of the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Brisbane | Wednesday 3.30pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallet says his team’s best chance of beating the Wallabies in Saturday’s Tri-Nation’s clash was to play the ball in the forwards and keep it away from Australia’s backs. Mallett is opting for this approach after the disastrous showing against New Zealand last Saturday, and numerous […]
MOZAMBICAN customs authorities confiscated an unspecified quantity of smuggled goods out of more than 800 registered cases in the first semester of 1999, reports Monday’s issue of the Maputo daily, Noticias. In the last two months more than 200 cases of smuggling were recorded in the south. Customs authorities believe that this shows there is […]
RETIRED president Nelson Mandela will not attend the Organization of African Unity summit that opened in Algiers on Monday because he is tired, conference organizers said. Mandela, who was to have been guest of honor at the summit, “is tired. He has the right to a little rest. We understand his absence,” a spokesperson for […]
THE Egyptian government has given the green light to move a 2500-year-old temple to another site in the Western desert to save it from corrosive underground water. Workers will next week start transferring the base of temple Amun, its columns, and walls 300m north of its location at Hibis in the Kharga oasis, antiquities chief […]
A HIGH Court trying three Americans detained in Zimbabwe on gun charges heard on Monday that prison authorities had defied a Supreme Court order radically to improve their jail conditions. John Lamonte Dixon, Gary George Blanchard and Joseph Wendell Pettijohn, all aged 35, have been held in Harare since March when they were arrested with […]