Star-studded Mamelodi Sundowns retained the Telkom Charity Cup at an emotionally charged FNB Stadium on Saturday night by the skin of their teeth — but only after a goalkeeper named Postnett failed to deliver for Bloemfontein Celtic in the unfamiliar role of penalty-taker.
The Springboks had to dig deep before they recorded yet another Vodacom Tri-Nations victory over the touring Wallabies, 22-16, at a packed Loftus Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday afternoon. Australia led 13-6 at half-time. The result was in the balance right until the last minute, when Andre Pretorius slotted a drop goal to seal the win.
It was like a bolt of lightning out of the clear blue sky as Bloemfontein Celtic scored the 91st-minute, injury-time goal that sent Premier League champions Kaizer Chiefs tumbling out of the Telkom Charity Cup before 70 000 largely shocked spectators at the FNB Stadium on Saturday afternoon.
World champion Michael Schumacher secured his first pole position of the season in Budapest on Saturday when he set a stunning pace in qualifying for Sunday’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Schumacher secured the morale-boosting top spot after seeing a marked improvement in his Ferrari machine this weekend.
They may have had almost enough well-known players to assemble three line-ups strutting on to the field at FNB Stadium on Saturday for the opening Telkom Charity Cup semifinal against Black Leopards, but a tepid game was anything but a stroll in the park for Mamelodi Sundowns.
Workers began a massive clean-up and rescuers searched for survivors under mountains of debris in western India after record monsoon rains claimed 920 lives, officials said on Saturday. Mumbai received 944,2mm of rainfall in a one-day period ending mid-morning on Wednesday.
At least 40 people were killed and 57 wounded in a suicide bomb attack on an army recruitment centre in the northern Iraqi town of Rabia, according to the latest toll issued by police on Saturday. An earlier toll put the number of dead at 25 and those wounded at 35 in the Friday blast.
Two gifted first-half tries — both the result of errors that arose from apparent touch-rugby tactics — gave the trampled Eastern Province Mighty Elephants 10 points they badly needed to give them a sense of respectability in their Absa Currie Cup rugby encounter against a rampant Sharks side on Friday night.
There was always a lingering suspicion that crusty Romanian-born coach Ted Dumitru had not left Kaizer Chiefs at the end of last season on the affable and harmonious note that was trumpeted about loud and clear. On Friday, Chiefs supremo Kaizer Motaung made a strongly worded attack on Dumitru on the club’s website.
South African Olympic silver medallist Mbulaeni Mulaudzi became the outright favourite to win the 800m at the upcoming World Athletics Championships in Finland when he recorded a hard-fought victory at the third IAAF Golden League Athletic meeting in the brand-new Bislett Stadium in Oslo on Friday night.