The English Premier League will have two flag-carriers in the quarterfinals of the Champions League after Liverpool coasted to a 3-1 victory over Bayer Leverkusen in their knockout round second-leg match on Wednesday. But another English Premier League side, Arsenal, failed to overcome a 3-1 away defeat to former winners Bayern Munich in Germany.
Only five months into his two-season contract, Bush Bucks coach Bruce Grobbelaar has quit his post, amid a string of poor results. Grobbelaar’s resignation comes after club boss Sturu Pasiya had expressed dissatisfaction with Bucks’ 3-1 loss to Golden Arrows last week.
Moroka Swallows booted Manning Rangers out of the Absa Cup tournament by winning 4-2 on penalties after finishing 1-1 after extra time in a tense last-16 encounter at Chatsworth Stadium on Wednesday night. There was no score at the end of normal time.
South Africa’s Western Stormers may have their best chance for a prestige away win over the ACT Brumbies by fielding an entire backline of Springboks against the injury-hit Super 12 champions in Canberra on Friday. The Australians have been battling-on without several of their leading Wallabies in the opening weeks of the tournament, but it will get no easier against the Cape Town-based outfit.
The team that rescued three injured gold miners at Stilfontein on Thursday travelled about 6km underground before reaching the shaft where they surfaced. Team captain Darren Vorkel (35) said his team and the injured miners felt sheer jubilation when they saw one another.
Five members of South Africa’s governing African National Congress party have arrived in Harare, the first group of foreign observers in Zimbabwe to monitor the March 31 vote, an electoral official said on Wednesday. Zimbabwe, under close scrutiny in the region to measure whether it will hold free and fair elections, has invited 45 foreign observer teams for the parliamentary polls.
I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. I wasn’t writing for the Mail & Guardian Online back in March 2002 but I said on radio that the proposed merger between Hewlett Packard (HP) and Compaq was (and I quote myself here) ”unlikely to succeed”. There’s a clear message here. And it’s not ”don’t try to merge laptops with printers, they do different things”.
The 15-year-old boy who accuses Michael Jackson of child molestation on Wednesday confronted the pop star across the courtroom as he took to the witness box. In emotionally charged scenes the teenager and the entertainer sat barely 15 feet apart but studiously avoided eye contact in the hushed court.
More than three years after the September 11 attacks, and -million later, the FBI has abandoned an attempt to upgrade its computer database, hampering the United States’s ability to track suspected terrorists. FBI director Robert Mueller told Congress he took full responsibility for the failure of the project, known as the virtual case file.
The Israeli government is guilty of systematic fraud, ”institutional lawbreaking” and the theft of private Palestinian land to covertly establish illegal Jewish outposts in the West Bank, according an official report. ”No one seriously intended to enforce the law,” said the report.