The Eagles virtually made sure of a Supersport Series semifinal place as they nearly beat the Lions in three days at Sedgars Park on Saturday. With a day to go, the Lions — after being forced to follow-on — trail by six runs with three second innings wickets in hand. Starting day three at 104 for three, the Lions squandered the good start.
The Cats slumped to a second straight Vodacom Super 12 defeat when the Waratahs from New South Wales put them to the sword to the tune of 40-19 at Ellis Park on Saturday evening. The loss means South Africa’s performance over the weekend had a familiar feel about it with all four teams losing.
Twenty-seven-year-old Western Province-Border captain Ashwell Prince saw an opportunity and grabbed it with both hands on Saturday, on the second day of the second Castle Lager/MTN Test between South Africa and Zimbabwe at Supersport Park on Saturday. Prince scored an undefeated maiden Test century.
Supersport United overwhelmed Tornado with skill and experience in their 8-0 drubbing and booked a place in the quarterfinals of the Absa Cup at Caledonian Stadium on Saturday. United were in control throughout the first stanza and led 4-0. The hosts opened the floodgates as early as the eighth minute through Lungisani Ndlela.
Mamelodi Sundowns proceeded to the quarterfinals of the Absa Cup competition after their 2-1 win in extra time over Jomo Cosmos at the HM Pitje Stadium in Pretoria on Saturday. Paul Masehe fired a powerful shot across Cosmos goalkeeper Avril Phadi, who got a hand to the ball but failed to stop it going inside the net.
The housing subsidy for the poorest of the poor — including the indigent, disabled and the elderly — has been raised from R28 279 to R31 900, starting in April this year. Minister of Housing Lindiwe Sisulu made the announcement in Pretoria — beamed by satellite to Cape Town — on Monday morning.
Police were on Monday probing stone-throwing incidents on the R59 road near Meyerton on the Vaal Rand, spokesperson Superintendent Nthabiseng Mazibuko said. She said a docket of malicious damage to property had been opened at Johannesburg’s Kliprivier police station.
A Côte d’Ivoire rebel group said on Sunday they had arrested a New Zealand man allegedly hired to kill its leaders, as well as 35 militiamen who were planning an offensive against the group. The alleged mercenary, holder of a New Zealand passport with the name Brian Hamish Sands, was arrested on Friday after arriving in Bouake.
Who are we? Where are we coming from? Where are we going? Gregory Vuyani Maqoma’s work examines these questions that resonate through the best of the world’s traditions of expression through the arts, but in his own particular way. What he comes up with, on a wide stage filled with many strongly defined characters, goes beyond the bounds of ”contemporary dance”.
Thousands of Togolese lined the streets of the capital Lome on Sunday to pay their last respects as a state funeral was held for the West African country’s long-serving ruler Gnassingbe Eyadema. Eyadema, who seized the reins of Togo in a coup in 1967 and had been Africa’s longest-serving ruler, died while flying to France for medical treatment.