World Cup-winning loosehead prop Os du Randt could miss the Springboks’ crunch Vodacom Tri-Nations Test against New Zealand this weekend after picking up a knock during a training session at Bishops College on Tuesday afternoon. Du Randt was struck down during a move early in the session on Tuesday.
Food of gluttonous proportions was served to all and sundry at this week’s function to launch the 2005/06 Premier Soccer League (PSL), but the soccer programme itself starts with something more in line of an aperitif when Ajax Cape Town entertain Jomo Cosmos at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Wednesday night.
There were signs from the start that this might be a year Ernie Els would like to forget. He stood on the 18th tee at Kapalua in Hawaii with a great chance to win the first tournament of the year. But his tee shot caromed off a cart path next to a fairway 70 yards wide and sailed out of bounds. Now his season has ended in far more peculiar fashion.
While mothers continue to bring children weak with hunger to feeding centres, market stalls are filled with food — but at prices well out of the reach of many in this desperately poor nation. ”It is the government’s job to deal with the hungry, we the traders are here for business,” said Ibrahim Baye, who sells millet, a staple in Niger, at Maradi market.
Long considered a bastion of ethical integrity, Germany’s influential public broadcasters find themselves these days embroiled in a scandal involving kickbacks from advertisers and the practice of sneaking blatantly commercial promotions into supposedly non-commercial prime-time shows.
United States business software giant Oracle said on Tuesday it was buying a controlling stake in Indian firm i-flex solutions for just over -million. The Mumbai-based i-flex, which employs more than 5Â 500 people worldwide, specialises in providing software and services to banks globally.
Proposed changes to Zimbabwe’s Constitution that seek to make it easier for the government to seize farmland from whites could be aimed at ethnic cleansing, the country’s top white farmer said on Tuesday. Zimbabwe’s Parliament is expected to debate amendments that will make it impossible for white farmers to seek legal recourse once the government has earmarked their land for expropriation.
South African President Thabo Mbeki arrived in Libreville on Tuesday for a state visit as part of a drive to strengthen relations across the African continent. Mbeki met his Gabonese counterpart Omar Bongo Ondimba and signed agreements on protecting and promoting investments, maritime matters and cooperation in the arts, education and training.
Celtic crashed out of European competition for the season, but Tuesday’s 4-0 win at home to Slovakian champions Artmedia Bratislava restored some pride. Goals from Alan Thompson, John Hartson, Stephen McManus and Craig Beattie almost allowed the Glasgow giants to overturn their 5-0 defeat from the first leg.
It’s the never-ending season. Summer used to mean a three-month break in European soccer. Now the hiatus is down to a few weeks. League seasons already have resumed in France and Scotland, the German season starts on Friday and the English Premier League begins on August 13.