CRICKET was difficult enough to understand before the World Cup. It has now become incomprehensible – and that’s official. Steve Waugh admitted earlier in the tournament he did not understand the scoring adjustments for rain-affected games, as worked out by the well-received but little understood Duckworth/Lewis system. On Saturday, meanwhile, Zimbabwe captain Alistair Campbell announced […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 11.15am. AUSTRALIA’S deliberate slow play during their cricket World Cup victory over the West Indies was greeted with disdain in the English press on Monday. Steve Waugh’s decision to bat as slowly as possible to try and help the West Indies qualify for the second round instead of New Zealand […]
THE African National Congress on Friday urged student supporters who disrupted an election address by the leader of a rival party to apologise in a bid to calm pre-election tension in South Africa. An address at the University of the Western Cape by Bantu Holomisa, leader of the United Democratic Movement was disrupted on Thursday […]
ALL Black fly-half Andrew Mehrtens could miss three of New Zealand’s World Cup warm-up games after aggravating a groin injury in Sunday’s Super 12 final. “He had the injury before the game, he will see a surgeon in Auckland in the next 48 hours, and then we’ll make a decision on what should be done […]
THE Organisation of African Unity said on Monday it has sent a team of 65 observers to South Africa for the country’s second all-race elections. The deployment comes under the OAU’s “continued efforts to promote and strengthen the democratization process in Africa,” the body said in a statement. South Africa goes to the polls on […]
OUTPLAYING Burkina Faso easily and consistently, Ghanaian Under-17s took a 3-1 victory and the championship home from Guinea. This is Ghana’s second U-17 championship. It was the first time that Burkina Faso had ever played in the final of the Under-17 African championship. In the consolation game played earlier in the day, Mali beat Cameroon […]
A CONCESSION contract, worth an estimated R2,5-billion, for the N3 road from Heidelberg to Cedara near Pietermaritzburg was signed on Thursday between the South African National Roads Agency and N3 Toll Concession Limited. The 30-year concession involves the design, construction, financing, operation and maintenance of 420km of the main Durban/Johannesburg route. Transport Minister Mac Maharaj […]
THE cricket World Cup’s official song will be released here on Monday – 24 hours after hosts England were knocked out and 18 days after the launch of the tournament. The lyrics of the song, “Life is a carnival”, caused some wry amusement in the media. Its opening line, “Heroes come and heroes go”, according […]
THREE separate incidents of violence in school sports matches marred South Africa’s weekend both on and off the field. Two pupils were killed, a parent was beaten with a pipe, and a rugby match was halted, reports Beeld on Monday. In the most serious incident, in the Northern Province, police were called in to break […]
MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Monday 6.00pm. SOUTH African markets were mixed to firmer on Monday, as election doldrums kept players away from the equity markets. Dealers adopted a “wait and see” attitude before the upcoming poll, and it showed in volumes a price movents in the late afternoon. At 3.30pm, the all share was up […]