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/ 17 September 2005
The Griffons boosted their chances of making the Currie Cup first-division semifinals with a come-from-behind 39-30 win over the Falcons at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Saturday. Also, the Pumas turned around a first-half deficit to beat the Mighty Elephants 31-20 in Port Elizabeth.
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/ 17 September 2005
The Free State Cheetahs had to fight for the spoils of victory at Wellington on Saturday to stay in the hunt for Currie Cup glory after coming from behind to beat Boland 29-21 in the final quarter of a lively premier-division contest. The Cheetahs looked a shadow of the side that beat the Sharks at King’s Park a fortnight ago.
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/ 17 September 2005
Hermann Bondi, an astrophysicist whose ideas about cosmology helped formulate the steady-state theory of the universe, has died at age 85. Martin Rees, Britain’s royal astronomer, said Bondi died on September 10 in Cambridge. He had suffered from Parkinson’s disease for years, Rees said.
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/ 17 September 2005
It was mission accomplished for the Natal Sharks at the Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday when they claimed the maximum five points from Griqualand West in their Absa Currie Cup rugby encounter. The Sharks eventually scored four tries to one in a 29-10 victory after leading 10-3 at the break.
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/ 17 September 2005
As farming experts in Zimbabwe predict another dismal agricultural season, the country’s vice-president has threatened to take back farms from newly resettled black farmers if they do not fully use the land, a newspaper reported on Saturday. ”If you are not farming properly, this is sabotage at its highest level,” Mujuru said.
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/ 17 September 2005
One lucky lottery player won a French record €75-million (R585-million) in the Euro Millions lottery roll-over jackpot on Friday, the organisers announced. The winner bought the ticket in a railway café in the town of Franconville, in the suburbs north of Paris, the Francaise des Jeux company said.
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/ 17 September 2005
Top-seeded Retief Goosen tied his own World Match Play record with an overwhelming 12 and 11 victory over Mark Hensby on Friday and will play United States Open champion Michael Campbell for a place in the final. Campbell drew level with Steve Elkington at the 35th, winning at the 37th with a par to secure his place in the semifinals.
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/ 17 September 2005
The Leopards pushed the Lions all the way before succumbing 44-27 in an entertaining Currie Cup premier-division encounter at Ellis Park on Friday night. The home team earned a bonus point for scoring five tries, while the visitors scored two on an evening when both teams left tries on the table.
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/ 17 September 2005
Manchester United assistant manager Carlos Queiroz has defended his record as coach at Real Madrid, saying the Spanish club’s disastrous start to the new season shows he was not the cause of its weakness. ”What is going on now with the club just proves that my work was not judged fairly by the management of the club,” he said.
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/ 17 September 2005
The first Jacques Kallis benefit match ended in an exciting finish at Newlands on Friday night. Despite a century from Salman Butt and some big hitting from Lance Klusener, cool heads in the fielding team prevailed and Andrew Hall was particularly composed in a final spell of four overs.