DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Tuesday 11.30am. WESTERN Province and Stormers wing Breyton Paulse is the new black Springbok in the “attacking” team named by coach Nick Mallett on Monday. Paulse, who comes in on the right wing for Stefan Terblanche, is certain to bring his attacking flair after excelling in this aspect of play in […]
A TWO-DAY conference on aid and debt in Africa is due to begin on June 9 in the Burkina Faso capital Ouagadougou, bringing together some 100 researchers and officials of multilateral lending institutions. The meeting, which will reconsider the role of the Breton Woods institutions on the African continent, will bring together academics and senior […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cairo | Monday 5.00pm. South Africa pledged on Monday to leave a legacy for underdeveloped African soccer and rescue the World Cup from its predictable winners, when it revealed its proposals to host the tournament in 2006. The chief executive of South Africa’s bid committee, Danny Jordaan, said in Cairo that Africa will […]
SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir on Monday inaugurated a $1-billion pipeline in the central town of Higleig that will carry the country’s oil to the coast for export. The oil is to begin flowing on Monday to the specially built Red Sea harbour of Beshair. ”The petroleum will be instrumental in achievement of prosperity and will […]
AN alleged lack of transparency in the restructuring of the President’s office on Monday prompted a public service trade union to walk out of talks with government negotiators in Pretoria. National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers general secretary Success Mataitsane threatened to declare a dispute over the matter. He said moves to merge […]
SOUTH African World Cup coach Bob Woolmer, a front-runner to succeed David Lloyd as England’s coach, all but ruled himself out in London on Wednesday saying he needs a break from the sport. Woolmer, a former English Test batsman who has been coaching South Africa since 1994, was on the England shortlist after Lloyd left […]
TWO men who jumped naked from bushes on a Zimbabwean golf course and did a war dance around two startled women golfers before robbing them have been jailed. The nudist thieves, who wore only painted faces and leaves in their hair during the ambush last month, were sentenced to six months imprisonment for theft and […]
FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier was on Saturday issued with a verbal warning by the Japan Football Association (JFA) for making critical comments about a tournament sponsor. JFA general secretary Kenji Mori warned the Frenchmen after the coach’s reported remark on the on-going Kirin Cup tournament in Japan. Mori warned Troussier not to make […]
FOR the second successive grand slam SA are assured of a player in the finals of the mixed doubles. David Adams and Mariaan de Swardt won the Australian Open mixed doubles title in January and today Grant Stafford and Nannie de Villiers will play Pietie Norval and Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik for a place in the […]
ARMED dissidents ambushed and killed 63 people two days ago near Kinkala, the Pool regional headquarters, 75 km south of Brazzaville in the Congo, it was revealed on Saturday. The Congolese military spokesman, Colonel Jean-Robert Obargui, said three soldiers and children were among those who died in the ambush by the Ninja militiamen of former […]