TUESDAY, 6.30PM: A CONTINGENT of seven South Africans will compete in the 1998 African Weightlifting Championships in Algiers from the beginning of June. The competition will be unique in that female weightlifters will also be allowed to compete. The inclusion of two women, Bronwyn Gertse and Loriaan Daniels, in the South African side may be […]
FORMER Liverpool goalkeeper Bruce Grobbelaar has turned down an offer to coach the newly-formed Cape Town Ajax next season, officials said on Sunday. The decision comes despite the 42-year-old Zimbabwean’s remarkable achievement in taking the newly-promoted Seven Stars to fifth place in the South African premier league on Sunday. It was the best finish for […]
SEVERAL Zimbabwean soldiers are missing in the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, but the army will only give details when the war ends, a Zimbabwean newspaper reported on Wednesday. “It is only at the end of the campaign that I … will compile a report which details all we have lost in […]
MORE than five million Malawians have registered to vote in general elections on June 15, the electoral commission said on Wednesday. Chairman James Kalaile said the voters represent 102% of the projected number of eligible Malawians. Voter registration has been hit by a number of problems, causing it to be extended twice and forcing a […]
SOUTH African national under-23 coach Shakes Mashaba wants total commitment from his young Bafana Bafana for their first leg Olympic qualifier against Togo in Lome on June 13. “We will focus on tactical and technical work before we leave for Togo and will only play against local teams during our preparations for two weeks,” Mashaba […]
LEICESTER manager Dean Richards on Monday backed new England captain Martin Johnson to make a success of his dramatic and sudden promotion following Lawrence Dallaglio’s decision to step down. British Lions skipper Johnson, who led Leicester to the Premiership title this season, takes charge of England following Dallaglio’s resignation, announced at Twickenham earlier on Monday. […]
WEDNESDAY, 7.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA rattled up an impressive 283/7 in their alotted 50 overs against Minor Counties at a cold and blustery Stone on Wednesday, with veteran all-rounder Brian McMillan scoring 79 runs in his stand at the wicket. The 34-year-old, dropped for the one-day Texaco series, cracked seven fours and four sixes off the […]
AFRICAN National Congress stalwart and former Rivonia trialist Ahmed Mohamed Kathrada was on Wednesday granted amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Kathrada applied for amnesty in respect of charges of sabotage that led to him to be sentenced to life imprisonment on June 12, 1964. The TRC announced, however, that Kathrada was not granted […]
THE East London magistrate’s court will on Friday pass sentence on former national pace bowler Makhaya Ntini, who was in April convicted of rape. A mandatory ten-year jail sentence for rape in terms of new laws would signal the end of his meteoric rise to stardom from a rural townships outside King William’s Town. Ntini’s […]
ERNIE Els exceeded his own expectations with a superb 66 to take an early lead in the first round of the Deutsche Bank-SAP Open on Friday. The 29-year-old South African had not played for five weeks after the Masters in April before arriving at St Leon-Rot to take on the best field in Europe outside […]