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/ 21 September 2007
If ever there were a case of a sport taking itself too seriously, it arrived in Paris last week, when the geniuses who regard themselves as the guardians of the sport’s morals fined the McLaren team -million (about R700-million). It was grandstanding on a ludicrous scale.
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/ 21 September 2007
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There have been times during his tenure as Springbok coach when Jake White must have wished he were Bernard Laporte — but this is not one of them. At the same time that White and his charges are relaxing after a job well done, the coach of France is wondering if his team will still be in the World Cup on Saturday morning.
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/ 21 September 2007
<a href="http://www.mg.co.za/specialreport.aspx?area=rugbyworldcup07_home"><img src="http://www.mg.co.za/ContentImages/317644/icon_rwc_03.gif" align=left border=0></a>Who can save the northern hemisphere in this World Cup? It looks like either France or Ireland, but neither has had a remotely reassuring start to the Rugby World Cup tournament. The three Tri-Nations teams look safe bets for places in the semifinals, and most neutral observers would back Argentina to join them there.
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/ 21 September 2007
The British government stands accused of breaking its G8 pledge to help defeat Aids after it revealed it would only marginally increase its contribution to the Global Fund for Aids, Malaria and Tuberculosis.
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/ 21 September 2007
Police National Commissioner Jackie Selebi allegedly gave instructions for the three accusers of Ekurhuleni metro police boss Robert McBride to be put under police protection after receiving information from the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) that their lives are in danger.
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/ 21 September 2007
Three suspended top officials are the first casualties in a clean-up by Home Affairs Director General Mavuso Msimang. In a ”broad swoop to turn things around”, the deputy director general of civic services, Joel Chavalala, and the chief financial officer, Pat Nkambule, were ordered last week to ”make way for the investigation to take its course”.
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/ 20 September 2007
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Wales rediscovered their attacking spirit to rout Japan 72-18 in their World Cup Pool B match at the Millennium Stadium on Thursday. They had the bonus point in the bag by halftime after four tries in the first 40 minutes and kept up the tempo after the break to score 11 in total.
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/ 20 September 2007
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Hosts South Africa were eliminated from the Twenty20 World Cup after paceman Rudra Pratap Singh led India to a 37-run win in their Group E Super Eights match on Thursday. Singh took four for 13 as South Africa made 116 for nine in reply to India’s 153 for five.
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