THE African Champions League second-round, second leg match between Daring Club Motema Pembe of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Shooting Stars of Nigeria was abandoned at half-time on Sunday. Stars held Pembe goalless in the first half at the 80000-capacity Martyrs Stadium in Kinshasa to retain a 2-0 aggregate lead built in the first […]
AFRICA offers high returns on investment according to a focus on the continent initiated jointly by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the United Nations Development Programme and the International Chamber of Commerce. The focus revealed that African affiliates of US transnational corporations had enjoyed average returns of […]
A BRAZILIAN journalist who was gang-raped by about ten attackers on Friday night near the Bruma Lake complex in Johannesburg received anti-Aids treatment, Johannesburg police said on Saturday. Inspector Mark Reynolds said the woman (28) had been rushed to the Sunninghill clinic in Sandton, which has a rape trauma centre, and was given anti-retroviral therapy, […]
SOUTH African rugby was on Sunday rocked by the news that star flanker Johan Erasmus would have to sit out Saturday’s Test against New Zealand at Carisbrook in Dunedin with a rib injury. News of Erasmus’ withdrawal came at an eventful training session in which two other top players — lock Krynauw Otto and utility […]
THE African National Congress in KwaZulu-Natal on Monday said it is shocked and angered by the murder of an ANC councillor in the midlands. In a statement ANC provincial secretary Sipho Gcabashe said a Georgedale ward councillor, Thulani Tetane, was shot and wounded while he was returning from a community meeting where he had reported […]
VETERAN television personality Michael de Morgan died in Cape Town on Monday after a short illness. De Morgan (72) was a broadcaster with the British Broadcasting Corporation for 13 years before joining the SABC in 1974. He spent another 13 years with the SABC and joined the South African Foreign Affairs department in 1987. In […]
LOCAL small scale fishermen in Bagamoyo, Tanzania are complaining about huge foreign trawlers that have invaded their shallow water fishing grounds. Fishermen say district and regional authorities have failed to drive them away. Most of the foreign ships belong to Arabs, Greeks and Italians who threaten them when they meet at sea. Fisherman Yusuf Ndonde […]
MAMELODI Sundowns striker Raphael Chukwu is heading to Bari in the Italian Serie A league next season for a South African record $2,5-million. the Nigerian led his team to two consecutive Premier Soccer League championships, and won Footballer of the year honours in South Africa. His move to Europe has been on the cards for […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE South African women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana, drew 1-1 with their Moroccan counterparts in an international friendly match played at the Ersterus Stadium near Pretoria on Sunday. Sibongile Khumalo gave the South Africans an early lead, heading into the goal in the 24th minute after receiving a good cross from Fikile Sithole. […]
MONDAY, 6.30PM: ENGLAND are fighting back fiercely in the face of a renewed South African onslaught on the final day of the third cricket Test at Old Trafford on Monday. English skipper Alec Stewart, who played a remarkable innings up to lunch, was eventually dismissed for 164 superbly played runs. Stewart was caught by Lance […]