Captain Richie McCaw and wing Joe Rokocoko scored late tries to snatch a 26-21 win for New Zealand over South Africa in their Tri-Nations match in Durban on Saturday. South Africa ruled the opening quarter by kicking much of their possession downfield and using their superior lineout to continue the attack..
The five cricket officials — including South Africa’s Rudi Koertzen — who caused the final overs of the Cricket World Cup final in Barbados to be played in near darkness have been banned from officiating in the World Twenty20 tournament in South Africa in September.
Arsenal announced on Saturday they had reached an agreement with Barcelona for the transfer of France striker and club captain Thierry Henry. Barcelona vice-president Ferran Soriano said: ”We’re optimistic we’ll conclude the negotiations on Monday and we’ve told the player that too.”
Judgement has been reserved on a Treatment Action Campaign application for the reinstatement of 41 dismissed Khayelitsha health workers. Cape High Court’s Justice Siraj Desai said at the end of an afternoon of legal argument on Friday that he would give a ruling ”with or without reasons” at 10am on Tuesday.
Barclays English Premiership club Tottenham Hotspur will have it all to play for when they take on Orlando Pirates and defending champions Kaizer Chiefs in the Vodacom Challenge to be held in South Africa, from July 21 to 28, says former Spurs goalkeeper Milija Aleksic.
The Blue Bulls scored six tries to the Falcons’s three as the home side won their first Absa Currie Cup game of the seaon at Loftus Versfeld on Friday night by 43 points to 26. The bonus-point win for the home side didn’t produce anything for the courageous visitors who stood tall against a team that included nine players from Super 14 final.
United States soldiers tightened their cordon around al-Qaeda fighters holed up in the Iraqi city of Baquba on Saturday, advancing carefully through streets lined with roadside bombs and booby-trapped houses. ”We are enveloping the enemy into a kill sack,” said Command Sergeant Major Jeff Huggins.
The Wallabies have yet to find a replacement kicking coach with time running out before September’s Rugby World Cup in France. Coach John Connolly has been forced to operate this season without a kicking coach after Ben Perkins resigned in protest at a contract offered to him by the Australian Rugby Union.
The government of the Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe still has the support of the country’s people, the information minister said on Saturday, dismissing predictions by the United States ambassador to Harare that regime change is imminent.
Veteran United States actor Morgan Freeman is to play former South African president Nelson Mandela in a drama based around the leader’s appearance at the 1995 Rugby World Cup, it was reported on Friday. Freeman said he was honoured to be given the opportunity of playing Mandela, Daily Variety reported.