OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 6.30pm. PAKISTANI Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has ordered a probe into allegations of match fixing against the national cricket team which lost to Australia in the World Cup final. Sharif’s Ehtesab (Accountability) Bureau has undertaken inquiries against Pakistan’s players after their humiliating defeat amid rumours the side staged a fixed […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: ALL THREE South African tennis players who went into the second round at Wimbledon on Thursday, emerged unscathed to take their places in the third round of the illustrious competition. Wayne Ferreira trumped his former nemesis, Spaniard Albert Costa, beating him 3-6, 7-5, 6-3, 6-3. The Spaniard resorted to breaking Ferreira’s concentration by […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: THE WELSH side that will meet the Springboks in a one-off Test match at Loftus Versfeld on Saturday will be characteristically full of spirit and fight, but all indications are that the Boks will maintain their unbeaten record over the Celtic visitors, writes Rob Davies . The Welsh rugby road has been very […]
FRIDAY 5.30PM: PLAY was suspended due to rain on the third and final day of the cricket match between British Universities and the touring South Africans at Fenners on Friday. The South Africans scored 394/1 declared in their first innings, and were 130 without loss in the second. The Students scored 199. FRIDAY, 12.30PM: PAT […]
NIGERIAN-BORN WBO heavyweight champion Herbie Hide turned over tables and chairs after losing his temper in a press conference in London on Thursday. Hide leapt to his feet to confront his former sparring partner Danny Williams during a meeting with the press ahead of Saturday’s title defence against Vitali Klitschko at the London Arena. British […]
MIKE FINCH, Johannesburg | Thursday 3.00pm. OLYMPIC 800m silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng can compete in the world athletics championships in August despite not fulfilling criteria laid down by the sports’ national federation. Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced at a news conference on Thursday that Sepeng had been fined R25000 for failing to attend the national […]
FRIDAY, 1.00PM: LABOUR Minster Tito Mboweni on Thursday announced the government’s long-awaited employment strategy, promising fiscal support of up to R1-billion for jobs creation programmes in the short term. The strategy — which will dictate the government’s position in the coming presidential jobs summit — calls for sacrifices from business and labour. Depending on the […]
Stephen Bierley Tennis It is an axiom of sport, and particularly tennis, that when a great champion dominates the game, most yearn for a change, and that when the game is in an obvious state of flux everybody yearns for a great champion. For the past 18 months, the only theme running through men’s tennis […]
Troop movements on both sides of the Congo conflict belie the peace talks in Lusaka, writes Ivor Powell A massive showdown that could determine the course of the war in the Democratic Republic of Congo is looming in the diamond-rich region in the centre of the country. Regional talks in Lusaka this weekend aimed at […]
THURSDAY, 12.15PM: THE South Africans at Wimbledon had mixed fortunes on Wednesday, with ninth-seed Amanda Coetzer, David Nainkin and Grant Stafford being shut out of the tournament. Wayne Ferreira, Mariaan de Swardt and Surina de Beer managed to win their matches and go through to the second round. Coetzer was looking a tad dodgy on […]