SUPERSPORT, the televison sports giant, has bought 40% of rugby’s Natal Sharks. SuperSport and the Natal Rugby Union have formed a new firm to handle all the province’s professional rugby interests, including the Sharks and the Natal Wildebeest. SuperSport MD Russell Macmillan called Natal the “Manchester United of the rugby world”, praising its professionalism. SuperSport […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 6.30pm. THE Department of Sports and Recreation will not be wielding the big stick as far as sporting quotas are concerned, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour said at a Johannesburg press conference on Thursday. However, Balfour said, a meeting of all the major sporting representatives which would include the National Olympic […]
LESOTHO lodged a formal objection with the Southern African Development Community on Monday, complaining that the kingdom’s Prime Minister, Pakalithi Mosisili, was excluded from the African economic summit in Durban. Lesotho Foreign Affairs Minister Tom Thabane said on Monday that the SADC’s secretariat in Gaborone invited the country’s finance minister, Leketekate Ketso, to the summit […]
SIX teenagers have been arrested for raping a 28-year-old Brazilian journalist in Johannesburg over the weekend. The youths, aged between 17 and 19, are suspected of raping the journalist on Friday, about 14 hours after she arrived in South Africa in transit to another African country. police said they had found what they believed to […]
PREMIERSHIP side AmaZulu may get new owners from down under after negotiations between current majority shareholder Dan Naidoo and a New Zealand consortium. The group is headed by New Zealander Greg Doolan, and has reached an agreement in principle pending the deposit of money into Naidoo’s account. Doolan tried to buy some of Moroka Swallows, […]
ANGLO-DUTCH oil giant Shell has ordered two mobile flowstations for its Nigerian operations at a combined cost of $40-million, a Shell official said on Wednesday. The Italian company ABB Soimi and a Nigerian-United States joint venture ABNL/Baker Hughes picked up the two contracts, said the official. The flowstations are to be used to pump oil […]
JAPAN is now leading in development assistance to Kenya, with over $2,2-billion so far disbursed, the country’s ambassador, Morihisa Aoki, said on Tuesday. In terms of bilateral funding, Japan has overtaken the United Kingdom, Kenya’s former colonial power. Aoki said the funds Japan has extended to Kenya are the highest given to any sub-Sahara African […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Wednesday 9.00am. SOUTH Africa’s World Boxing Union heavyweight champion of the world Corrie Sanders is on his way to the big league. Sanders has been matched in a unification bout with the newly crowned World Boxing Organisation’s heavyweight champion, Vitali Klitschko. “The Sanders-Klitschko battle will undoubtedly be the biggest championship fight […]
JAKE WHITE will be an assistant coach to Eric Sauls for the South African Under-21 rugby squad for an eight-nation tourney in Argentina in July. Despite Australia’s domination of the U21 arena, White feels the “Baby Boks” can achieve their best showing this year, after finishing third out of five last year. The squad has […]
COCA COLA said that the price of South African sugar as well as high excise tax is negatively affecting its production capacity in the country. Speaking at the World Economic Forum summit in Durban on Monday, president of the southern Africa Division of Coca-Cola said that Coca-Cola is encouraged by South Africa’s bold first steps […]