ALL-ROUNDER Lance Klusener, voted man of the tournament in the World Cup, has turned down an offer to replace injured fellow South African Jacques Kallis at English county side Glamorgan. “No way,” Klusener told a Durban newspaper. “They have Jacques — that’s it. “Right now, I’m longing to get back home. It’s been a long, […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cardiff | Thursday 9.30am. GARY Teichmann returns to captain world champions South Africa against Wales in Saturday’s first game at the new Millennium Stadium, the venue of the World Cup final later this year. The number eight missed the Springboks’ 101-0 record defeat of Italy because of a knee injury last Saturday but […]
KENYA’S Andrew Musuva outdueled Ethiopia’s Tesfaye Bekele and won the Grandma’s Marathon by four seconds in 2 hours, 13 minutes, 21 seconds on Saturday. Russian Fedro Ryjov was third at 2:13:32. Elena Makolova of Belarus set a course record in winning the women’s division in 2:29:12. Russian Albina Galliamova was runner-up at 2:30:02.
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.00pm. SOUTH African markets fell on Wednesday in line with international trends. Overnight losses on Wall Street pulled the rug out from under Asian and European markets, and the signals spread southward from there. The all share lost 57 points, or 0,81%, while industrials lost 59 points or 0,77%. Financials […]
ANGLO American Platinum Corporation — the world’s biggest platinum producer — on Monday said it has “as a last resort” retrenched 415 employees at its Lebowa mine in Northern Province. Amplats spokesperson Johan Adler said Lebowa has not been performing well for “quite a few years”. “We explored everything as required by the Labour Relations […]
FOR Tiaan Strauss, at least, a tie was the perfect result. The former Springbok captain scored a hat-trick of tries on his Australian debut last weekend but found himself battling confusion while watching the thrilling World Cup cricket semi-final between his old country and his new one. Strauss and teammate Jason Little woke up most […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Colombo | Wednesday 9.15am. SRI Lanka’s Tamil Tiger guerrillas are planning to send a top leader to South Africa to seek Pretoria’s help in ending the island’s separatist war, a press report in the capital Colombo said on Wednesday. The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) plann to send the group’s ideologue, Anton […]
DEBSWANA, the 50/50 diamond mining partnership between De Beers Centenary AG and the Botswana government, has reported a 21,8% drop in revenue to 5,4 billion pula for the last financial year. The drop for the year ending December 1998 is partially attributed to a 1,7% drop in the carat weight of stones recovered, from 20,12-million […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.00pm. MARIAAN DE SWARDT has no fear of Steffi Graf in their second-round bout at Wimbledon, and actually fancies her chances of an upset. The two are tied one-all after two previous matches. In 1992, Graf beat de Swardt 7-5 in a tight third set at Wimbledon, and in 1995 […]
AN acute shortage of bread looms in Zimbabwe following threats by major bakers to stop production in protest at new prices imposed by government last week. According to press reports, Eddie Cross, chairperson of the Bakers Association of Zimbabwe, said the price of bread fixed by government, of 28 US cents per loaf, would be […]