SIERRA Leone have been disqualified from the 2000 African Nations Cup qualifying competition on Friday after failing to fulfil fixtures against Togo and Guinea this year. The West African state has been dogged by civil war for several years and football authorities in Freetown could not guarantee the security of visiting teams and match officials. […]
NORTHERN Province police and social workers have reacted in horror to a 50-year-old man’s decision to be buried alive on May 29 next month. Ratshilumelo Samson Mudzunga of Shanzha village in Thohoyandou is protesting against being charged for burning down a headman’s kraal and home in nearby Tshiavha two years ago. He is also angry […]
EXPERIENCED Queensland halfback Brett Johnstone has been selected for the Reds’ Super 12 clash on Friday night with the Northern Bulls in Brakpan. Johnstone replaces Sam Cordingley, who was forced to rest after being concussed for the second time in three weeks against the Stormers last weekend. Fiji halfback Jacob Raulini comes onto the bench. […]
DAVID ISAACSON, Durban | Saturday 4.00pm. COMMONWEALTH Games silver medallist Ryk Neethling will become the first South African to lift the national 100m, 200m, 400m and 1500m freestyle titles in one year if he wins the mile at the Telkom South African swimming championships in Durban on Saturday night. The psychology student at Arizona University, […]
ALL Black wing juggernaut Jonah Lomu plays his 100th first-class rugby match when the Chiefs take on the ACT Brumbies in a Super 12 match in Canberra on Saturday. The Brumbies will be hoping for anything but a repeat of their drawn pre-season game against the New Zealanders, when Lomu broke prop Ben Darwin’s arm […]
WALLY HAYWARD, the 92-year-old South African running legend, will limber up for his planned walk of the Comrades Marathon next year by participating in the Old Mutual 5km walk on Workers Day May 1. The event, starting from the Centurion Park rugby grounds, also has a 10km section, a half and a full marathon.
SPRINGBOK World Cup star Chester Williams is fit and ready to tour New Zealand and Australia with the Cats. Williams was struggling with a hamstring injury, caused by an imbalance in his pelvis. In a twist of irony, the man who sorted out the problem was Bruce McLoughlin, the physiotherapist of Super 12 rivals the […]
NATIONAL cricket coach Bob Woolmer will have two assistants for the World Cup campaign in England, United Cricket Board managing director Dr Ali Bacher announced on Thursday. Free State’s Corrie van Zyl and Graham Ford of Natal will both go with the squad to assist Woolmer in preparing the players. “We wanted to give the […]
AMANDA COETZER took her third round match in the $520000 Bausch and Laumb women’s tennis tournament on Amelia Island in Florida on Thursday. The fifth seeded South African beat Spain’s Virginia Ruano Pascual 6-1, 7-5 to advance. In other notable matches, ninth seed poster girl Anna Kournikova sent number one seed Lindsay Davenport of the […]
BRITISH police and immigration officials were on Thursday searching for 12 rugby players from Cote d’Ivoire after they absconded during an international under-19 tournament in south Wales. The men, who all speak French but little or no English, were due to fly out to the West African state from London’s Heathrow airport later on Thursday. […]