A last-gasp Hernan Crespo goal saved Chelsea’s blushes on Sunday as the champions beat newly promoted Wigan 1-0 to avoid a stuttering start to the defence of their English Premiership title. Earlier on Sunday, late strikes from Thierry Henry and Robin van Persie clinched an opening win for Arsenal over Newcastle.
The local contingent of Bafana Bafana players left Johannesburg on Sunday to join their European-based counterparts for the international friendly against Iceland in Reykjavik on Wednesday, with talented Orlando Pirates striker Lebohang Mokoena hurriedly packing his luggage as a late replacement for the injured Shaun Bartlett.
The ANC Youth League has denied a Sunday newspaper report that the organisation is facing a ”cash crisis” after the African National Congress withdrew its R500Â 000 monthly grant. The newspaper report said the youth league has in recent months been unable to run some of its key programmes.
Phil Mickelson soared and then stumbled but was still leading by a stroke on Sunday when thunderstorms halted play and forced officials to push back the finish of the United States PGA Championship by 24 hours. Mickelson went from three shots ahead to two shots behind Steve Elkington in a span of seven holes.
Nedbank’s innovative bonus-share scheme for black retail clients, introduced as part of the Nedbank group’s black economic empowerment (BEE) transaction, opened to the public on Monday. Nedbank is the first bank to include clients as beneficiaries in a BEE transaction.
Rafael Nadal added a career-first hard-court title to his increasingly crowded trophy shelf, defeating three-time champion Andre Agassi 6-3, 4-6, 6-2 on Sunday to win the ,2-million Montreal Masters. The rain-interrupted victory was the ninth of the season for the talented 19-year-old.
The all-conquering Springboks on Monday played down their chances in this week’s Tri-Nations rugby clash against a struggling Australian outfit who have been outmuscled in their past three Tests. But forwards coach Gert Smal delivered the first blow in the inevitable psychological build-up to the clash.
”Old stars fade, new stars light up the sky,” was how 110m hurdler Allen Johnson assessed athletics ahead of the world championships, and he couldn’t have been more correct. If the Helsinki championships were anything to go by, then the old guard has been stood down for the new kids on the block.
The South African Municipal Workers Union (Samwu) says that its members will begin to return to work on Monday. This comes after the union’s announced on Sunday that it was suspending its week-long strike. However Samwu spokesperson Roger Ronnie said that the wage dispute between the union and the South African Local Government Association (Salga) remains unresolved.
Politicians spend a great deal of our time and money passing myriad laws aimed at making us think they’re very busy people. The Law of Conservation of Energy states that energy may neither be created nor destroyed, so they’ re obviously putting lots of effort into converting worthwhile tasks into bullshit just to impress us voters.