SOUTH African Rugby Football Union chief Rian Oberholzer reminded provincial rugby coaches on Monday that unless they choose black players for the Currie Cup, Sarfu will force them to do so. Oberholzer stressed that the burden of proof lay with the provinces, since black players had not been given a fair chance so far. The […]

VILLAGERS in Mpumalanga’s rural hinterland have refused to register for the coming elections and have instead accused the Independent Electoral Commission of paving the way for the Anti-Christ. People in villages such as Daggakraal chased IEC registration officers out of their villages last week, insisting the campaign to issue bar-coded ID books smacks of biblical […]

A BUMPER crop of 905000 tons of sunflower seeds is expected this season, the National Crop Estimates Committee said on Monday. In its first official estimate for the 1999/2000 season, the crops body said 828000 hectares have been planted compared to 511000 hectares last season. Last year’s crop was 562000 tons.

BRIAN LARA was retained on Monday night as West Indies captain for the first two of four Tests against Australia, the West Indies Cricket Board president Pat Rousseau said. There have been calls for Lara’s dismissal as captain after the West Indies were beaten 5-0 in Tests and 6-1 in one-day internationals in South Africa […]

ZIMBABWE will try and reverse a decision to strip them of the 2000 African Nations Cup when they meet African soccer supremo Issa Hayatou on March 6 in Ghana. Hayatou chaired Confederation of African Football talks in Cte d’Ivoire last month which charged Zimbabwe with making insufficient progress in building stadiums or developing media infrastructure. […]

THE Gauteng Lions wiped the floor with the MTN Falcons 40-18 in their Vodacom Cup match at Ellis Park on Sunday. The match saw a sea of yellow as off-the-ball offenders on both sides were booked rather than sent off. Falcons flank Jaco Booysen threw several punches although judgments that he had been provoked mitigated […]

LONDON-BOUND Old Mutual said on Monday it has agreed to merge its linked investment services division with that of Nedcor Investment Bank, in which it already holds a majority stake. “The amalgamation is in line with closer co-operation between Old Mutual and Nedcor that takes advantage of scale, scope and expertise in the combined, wider […]

ZIMBABWE is planning to build a multibillion-dollar oil pipeline from the Mozambican port of Beira to its National Oil Company depot, a distance of about 800km. The existing Beira-Feruka-Msasa pipeline has a capacity of 1,2-million tons a year, 300000 short of the current national demand, Transport and Energy Minister Enos Chikowore said. According to Chikowore, […]

MEMBER countries of the River Nile Basin signed a joint management agreement on Monday for its sustainable development. Member countries of the basin are Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Sudan, Uganda and Tanzania. The basin covers 3-million km. The Council of Ministers, who met in Dar es Salaam, […]

QUEENSLAND Reds, already hit by a long-term injury to key forward John Eales, have more injury problems ahead of Saturday’s opening Super 12 match against Wellington in Brisbane. The Reds have named Test centre Daniel Herbert and winger Ben Tune for their first game even though both are considered doubtful. Coach John Connolly’s decision to […]