Jomo Cosmos managed to deal best with the wet and cool conditions and beat Black Leopards 3-1 in their Castle Premier Soccer League match played at the Rand Stadium on Sunday. Cosmos scored all of their goals in the first half while Leopards managed their consolation effort just two minutes before the final whistle.
Bush Bucks’ fight to avoid relegation received a boost when they beat Ajax Cape Town 2-0 in a Premier Soccer League match played in East London on Sunday. Bucks led 1-0 at half-time. They opened the score in the ninth minute when Bulelani Matroff got on the end of a cross from Wellington Sambu.
Western Province-Boland (WP-Boland) recovered from their defeat on Friday to entertain a Sunday crowd of about 7 000 in their Standard Bank Pro20 cricket match against the Warriors at Newlands on Sunday. They were kept on tenterhooks for a long time as the local batsmen again struggled against the slow bowlers.
Chiefs dropped two valuable points when they held Lamontville Golden Arrows to a 1-1 draw in an entertaining Castle Premiership encounter played at Kings Park Stadium on Sunday afternoon. The home side led 1-0 at the interval thanks to a goal by Bheka Phakathi in the 38th minute.
Ferrari suffered a weekend to forget in the stifling heat of the Bahrain desert on Sunday when they failed to score a point on the debut of their new F2005 car in the Bahrain Grand Prix. It was the first time they had failed to score a point in 33 races stretching back two years to April 2003.
Swiss superman Roger Federer rallied from two sets to love down to subdue Spanish teenager Rafael Nadal 2-6, 6-7 (4/7), 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6-1 in Miami on Sunday and claim the ATP Masters Series title at Key Biscayne. Federer, the world number one, won his 22nd straight match and extended his 2005 record to an astonishing 32-1.
South Africa laboured to 85 for two in its follow-on second innings on Sunday, battling to save the opening Test against the West Indies as day four at Bourda drew to a close. South Africa, who resumed their first innings at 130 for six, were bowled out just before lunch for 188.
Another six children were removed from an unregistered Soweto orphanage this weekend after 27 were taken last week, the Gauteng social development department said on Monday. ”On Sunday night we were tipped [off] that there were children in the house … we found six children, three boys and three girls,” a departmental spokesperson said.
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The Schabir Shaik fraud and corruption trial resumes in the Durban High Court on Monday. Shaik’s instructing attorney, Reeves Parsee, said the defence will call a further two, or possibly three, witnesses but remained tight-lipped about who they will be. The state will also apply to call two more witnesses.
The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) on Sunday welcomed reports that former askari Joe Mamasela has backtracked on his statement that the bodies exhumed recently by the NPA were not those of the ”Mamelodi 10”. An NPA spokesperson said Mamasela changed his tune after a meeting with NPA officials last week.