BAFANA Bafana striker Benny McCarthy is to miss Wednesday’s clash against Denmark, it was reported on Monday. Coach Trott Moloto confirmed the Ajaz Amsterdam player would miss the firendly after picking up an injury in a Dutch club match, SABC television reported. Meanwhile, Pieter Schmiechel will guard the goal for Denmark. The soccer legend is […]
WESTERN Cape Premier and New National Party leader Gerald Morkel on Friday agreed to cooperate logistically with the Democratic Party on election day, but ruled out any pre-election pact in the province. This follows a meeting with DP provincial leader Hennie Bester, in which the two parties agreed to cooperate on the manning of all […]
THE Democratic Party said on Sunday that it will take action against an e-tv journalist who reportedly harassed DP leader Tony Leon on Sunday afternoon. The DP said that the reporter, an American named Andrew Johnson, demanded Leon comment about the death sentence his father handed down to Andrew Zondo. Justice Raymon Leon sentenced African […]
FOUR Ogies town councillors in Mpumalanga are taking the African National Congress to court because they feel they have been victimised by colleagues for being uncircumcised. The former mayor of the small farming town, Bigboy Radebe, confirmed on Friday that he and three colleagues are hauling the provincial ANC leadership before the Pretoria High Court […]
THE 1999 African Champions League winners will represent the continent at the first world club championships, the African Football Confederation were announced on Sunday. Brazil, China, Mexico, Paraguay, Saudi Arabia, Tahiti, Turkey, the United States and Uruguay have applied to host the eight-team competition from January 5 to 14. The line-up will include one club […]
PUBLIC PROTECTOR Selby Baqwa has criticised Home Affairs Minister Mangosuthu Buthelezi for failing to suspend his director-general, Albert Mokoena, in the face of evidence that he was involved in corruption. Instead, the minister had given him ”special leave” pending the outcome of an investigation into allegations. This comes after Baqwa recommended to Buthelezi that he […]
MICHAEL FINCH, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.00pm. ALI Bacher will step down from his position as managing director of the United Cricket Board (UCB) next year to concentrate on organising the 2003 World Cup in South Africa. Bacher, who has been at the helm of the unified board since its inception in 1991, was asked by […]
INJURY doubts hang over key Cats players Chester Williams and Willie Meyer ahead of their Super 12 clash against the Chiefs on Saturday. Should the Williams be fit, he’ll come in on the left wing for Thinus Delport while Meyer, who is suffering from bad flu, is likely to be replaced by the able Dougie […]
GHANA’S under-20 soccer team, the Black Satellites, returned home on Tuesday from Nigeria after being eliminated by Spain last Sunday in the ongoing World under-20 soccer championship in Nigeria. Thousands of enthusiastic Ghanaians thronged the Kotoka International Airport in Accra to welcome them. In his welcome address, Minister of Youth and Sports, E.T. Mensah said […]
TWO women were killed and 800 informal dwellings were destroyed after a violent storm struck Soshanguve, north of Pretoria on Thursday night, northern Pretoria metropolitan sub-structure spokesman Gerhard van Eeden said on Friday. Van Eeden said the roofs of 300 formal homes were extensively damaged and about 28000 houses were left without electricity on Friday. […]