Two years ago, Ernie Els sat down with young black golfer James Kamte and the world number two gave him a very definite plan for his career. Kamte arrived at the Lost City Golf Club on Tuesday for this week’s Vodacom Origins of Golf Tour at Sun City with everything indicating Els’ words are still the blueprint for his fledgling career.
South African rugby bosses on Wednesday insisted a player contract row was not a distraction ahead of their opening Tri-Nations rugby test against the All Blacks here on Saturday. White was doing his utmost to put the dispute raging between the South African Rugby Union and the South African Players Association into the background this week.
Pakistan opened their Asia Cup super league campaign on a disastrous note when they crashed to their lowest-to-date total of 122 against Sri Lanka at the Premadasa Stadium in Colombo on Wednesday. All-rounder Abdul Razzaq top-scored with 43, but Pakistan still fell below their previous lowest of 131 against Sri Lanka.
United Cricket Board of South Africa president Ray Mali has warned that anybody trying to derail the transformation of South African cricket will not succeed. Mali was reacting to a newspaper report saying a new board of directors for Cricket SA excludes himself and chief executive Gerald Majola.
The unavailability of direct flights to Algiers, Algeria has forced Supersport United to leave in two separate groups for their crucial African Champions League match against USM Alger on Friday night. The first group of United players and senior officials left for the North African country on Monday night and the second one departed on Tuesday night.
The South African Rugby Football Union, Boland and Western Province (WP) have identified four key areas that will be targeted in an effort to eradicate violence at club rugby matches in the two provinces. The four areas to be targeted are crowd control, player discipline, referee performances and development of club leadership.
Lance Armstrong took another step towards an historic sixth yellow jersey on the Tour de France on Tuesday with an exciting, if unfamiliar, winning sprint which handed him the yellow jersey. Armstrong put his largely unseen sprint qualities on show to win the 15th stage held over 180,5km between Valreas and Villard-de-Lans ahead of Italian Ivan Basso.
Zimbabwe’s rebel cricketers have agreed to the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) plan for arbitration in their dispute with the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, a spokesperson said on Wednesday. The ICC had proposed that a three-man tribunal, sitting in Zimbabwe, resolve the dispute.
South Africa will field two changes to their team to face the All Blacks in the Tri-Nations rugby Test at Jade Stadium in Christchurch on Saturday. A broken nose suffered against the Pacific Islanders in the 38-24 win at Gosford in New South Wales last Saturday has ruled lock Gerrie Britz out of contention and his place goes to Albert van den Berg.
Greek Public Order Minister Yiorgos Voulgarakis denied on Wednesday that Greece has agreed to allow armed foreign guards at next month’s Olympics. ”Greek authorities will be exclusively responsible for the security of athletic delegations,” Voulgarakis said in a press release.