AUSTRALIAN World Cup umpire Darrell Hair, who called Sri Lankan spinner Muttiah Murlitharan for throwing four years ago, has allegedly received death threats from a Tamil group, media reports said here on Wednesday. Hair described the spinner’s action as “diabolical”, after coming in for round condemnation in Sri Lanka for calling him on throwing seven […]
TEN students were arrested on Tuesday night when police ended a hostage drama at the Elijah Mango College in KaBokweni, Mpumalanga, a police spokeswoman said on Wednesday morning. Three college officials were held hostage at about 10.45am when students were prevented from registering for new courses until they had paid outstanding fees. One of the […]
THE Bulls may have avoided becoming the first team to go through a Super 12 campaign without a win by beating the Auckland Blues in Witbank on Saturday, but they still face an almost certain prospect of statistically being the worst ever Super 12 performers in one season. The dubious record they are chasing is […]
HURRICANES No 8 Filo Tiatia says his form “hasn’t been too bad, and hasn’t been too good”. That could also sum up the uneven form of the Hurricanes going into their last match of the 1999 Super 12, against the desperate-to-win Highlanders at Athletic Park on Saturday. Tiatia, hopeful of a World Cup squad spot […]
A EGYPTIAN digging a hole in his yard has unearthed a section of a 2000-year-old Roman tunnel on the western banks of the Nile River, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Wednesday. An SCA team rushed to the area of Giza in southern Cairo found that the tunnel runs 17m under buildings and a […]
SUDAN’S meningitis death toll, which stood at 1250 persons last week, has now jumped to 1400, prompting the ministry of health to request the continued closure of schools in the country. The move is aimed at preventing further infections amid rising temperatures that have shot up to between 45-47 in most parts of the country. […]
ZIMBABWEANS are to face an increase in the price of the staple maize meal from the end of May if the country’s millers have their way. Misheck Nyamupingidza, chairman of the Millers Association, said on Tuesday his association has recommended to the government a hike in the price of maize meal following the rise in […]
THE Namibian government announced this week that unemployment had now grown to 35% of the country’s labour force, with women making up the majority of those without jobs. A spokesman for the Ministry of Youth and Sport said on Tuesday that the “strict, nationwide” unemployment figure stands at around 21%. But he said that the […]
RESIDENTS in a northern Liberian town looted more than 30 tons of rice seeds and stole thousands of agricultural tools stocked by an international agency, aid officials said on Wednesday. The Lutheran World Service said residents of Bopolu, some 90km north of Monrovia, burglarised its warehouses a fortnight ago “in the presence of military and […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: EASTERN Province speedster Mornantau Hayward will get his first taste of the big leagues when he opens the bowling with Allan Donald for South Africa against Worcester on Thursday. Hayward will try and draw first blood for the tourists because of a slight stomach muscle strain to regular new-ball specialist Shaun Pollock. Meanwhile, […]