ORLANDO Pirates put nine goals past Olympics amateur club in the first round of the BobSave Super Bowl, winning handily 9-0. Two goals were disallowed, from Joseph Ngake and Simon Makhubela, keeping the rout from ending 11-0. Goals which were allowed came from Thabo Mngomeni (2) Phumlani Mkhize (2) and Makhubela (2). The remaining hat […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kinshasa | Monday 8.00pm. DEMOCRATIC Republic of Congo President Laurent Kabila said on Monday that fighting in the east of the country is “developing” in favour of government forces and that the war could be over in “several months”. He told state television: “At the front it is going well, it is developing […]
PRESIDENT Laurent Kabila of the Democratic Republic of Congo has asked Nigeria to send troops to help end the fighting in his war-torn country, the independent radio station Ray Power said on Sunday. Kabila sent a delegation of officials to Nigeria this weekend to pass on the request. They met top foreign ministry officials and […]
The Mpumalanga town of Belfast is bracing itself for the start of a sensational hearing on Monday when a 63-year-old Hungarian herbalist appears in the Belfast Magistrate’s Court on child rape and child labour charges. Charles Josef Baksai was arrested in February after allegedly bribing groups of girls with food and promises of money in […]
GHANA won the African Under-20 championship Sunday, beating arch-rivals Nigeria 1-0 in the final at the Accra Sports Stadium. Laryea Kingston scored in the 39th minute. The two teams had earlier been inspected by the Ghanaian head of state Jerry Rawlings.
THE unseeded pairing of Jeff Coetzee and Damien Roberts captured the doubles title at a $50000 challenge in Singapore at the weekend. The MTN Super Squad pairing beat another unseeded tandem, Oleg Ogorodov of Uzbekistan and Israel’s Eyal Ran, 7-5 6-3 in Sunday’s final. It was the Israeli’s serve that came under fire in the […]
THE 63-year-old Hungarian herbalist accused of drugging girls as young as 10 and then having sex orgies with them was remanded in custody in the Belfast magistrate’s court in Mpumalanga on Monday. Members of the Congress of South African Students filled the courtroom where Charles Josef Baksai of Machadodorp appeared on two rape charges and […]
DAVID LE PAGE, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange was one of the few markets to buck Monday’s trend to decline. Led by industrials’ 105-point push to 7241, all the major indices pushed their way upwards on Monday. Gold climbed 13 points to 964 and financials 89 points to 9495. The overall index […]
DISCARDED former Springbok flyhalf and centre Hennie le Roux may get a call-up to the Cats following Saturday’s disastrous 39-10 defeat to the New South Wales Waratahs. Le Roux, who has been in good form for the Lions in the Vodacom Cup, is likely to replace Boeta Wessels at flyhalf in the Cats side for […]
THE South African short-term insurance industry notched up some significant underwriting losses last year, compared to the previous year, the South African Insurance Association said on Monday. Chief executive Barry Scott said that 12 out of 23 insurance companies reported underwriting losses for the year to December, compared to only seven in 1997. He said […]