Andrew Muchineripi : Boxing What does the future hold for newly-crowned WBU heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders? The 31-year-old Pretoria southpaw completely overshadowed American Ross Puritty in a non-contest at the Carousel last Saturday and set himself up for an encounter with a champion of another organisation, probably at the same venue next February. IBF junior […]

FRIDAY, 3:00PM: THE Aids Law Project at the University of Witwatersrand (ALP) says it has been approached by patients who received supplies of the banned Aids drug Virodene from a Pretoria doctor. In a press conference called to explain Thursday’s police raid on the team who created the controversial drug (see below), law project attorney […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Soccer On a cold, wet evening in the industrial heartland of Germany the inevitable happened last weekend with the champions of Europe showing the champions of Africa just how wide the gap is between the continents on the football field. Bafana Bafana apologists have made much of their understrength team, conveniently forgetting […]

SUHARTO TO GET TOP HONOURVISITING Indonesian President, Mohamed Suharto, is to receive South Africa’s highest honour, the Order of Good Hope, at a special ceremony at President Nelson Mandela’s residence this weekend. The award-ceremony will be Suharto’s last stop in South Africa before he leaves for Cananda on Saturday. Last month the award was given […]

Andy Duffy The police probe into the head of the Cape Town-based presidential investigations task unit has so far found evidence on three counts of criminal activity. A representative for National Police Commissioner George Fivaz says several other allegations against director Andre Lincoln are also being investigated, but that the details remain sub judice. Western […]

FRIDAY, 5.30PM: PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe met with war veterans on Friday to reveal how he plans to pay them despite a lack of ready funds. He urged the veterans to accept gratuities in the form of government bonds, rather than cash. The payout, which will recompense 40 000 liberation soldiers, is expected to amount to […]

Swapna Prabhakaran and Bongani Siqoko Hawkers in Johannesburg have added Pakistanis, Indians and Chinese people to their list of foreigners whose businesses should be boycotted and who should be expelled from South Africa. More than 500 local hawkers gathered at the Library Gardens for yet another rally calling for a boycott of goods sold by […]

Steve Morris : Rugby There is a distinct feeling abroad that South African rugby, while it has moved up a step on the international level, is suffering from stress fractures at home. It is amazing that the only coach the Blue Bulls could settle on was Eugene van Wyk, a man they had already rejected […]

Gustav Thiel : Cricket Professional sportsmen never want to retire. If they had their way, they would play into their graves. Cricketers are no exception, which is why a bunch of the world’s top players of yesteryear are now considering starting a seniors league similar to those already flourishing in golf and tennis. Talk of […]

Pat McDermott : Cricket Australia in Australia are, as any touring team who has visited the home of sledging, the hand-held frosty and unremitting competitiveness on the field of play will tell you, remains a cricketing journey beyond the reach of the faint-hearted or the foolhardy. And while Hansie Cronje’s South Africans approach their 11-week […]