Top South African soccer defender Lifa Gqosha of Premiership side Dynamos in Limpopo has decided to hang up his boots. Gqosha is planning to pursue a career as a coach after his contract with the club expired at the end of the 2003/04 soccer season.
The South African Rugby Players Association (Sarpa), which represents all professional rugby players in South Africa, maintains that Brian van Rooyen has little appreciation or concern for the legitimate needs and requirements of professional rugby players in the country.
Bafana Bafana are determined to wipe away the memory of their recent 3-0 defeat against Ghana in Kumasi and get their 2006 World Cup campaign back on track. After a number of setbacks this week it was down to serious business in preparing for Saturday’s key World Cup qualifier against Burkina Faso at the FNB stadium.
Defending champion Roger Federer overcame 2002 winner Lleyton Hewitt in four sets on Wednesday to reach the Wimbledon semifinals, edging closer to a possible final against Andy Roddick. Federer prevailed in a high-quality centre-court match that ended close to dusk. It was his 22nd consecutive win on grass.
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Soweto’s entire road network will be tarred before the end of 2005, Johannesburg mayor Amos Masondo promised on Wednesday. ”More than 300km of road surface will be upgraded in the R500-million project that the mayor identified as a city priority in his budget last week,” the Johannesburg Road Agency said.
The Chinese embassy in South Africa on Wednesday dismissed allegations that its government was involved in the shooting of a Falun Gong practitioner outside Johannesburg on Monday. But a group of Falun Gong spokespeople said the shooting is another example of the way the Chinese government persecutes them.
Spain’s Parliament may approve same-sex marriages early next year, Justice Minister Juan Fernando Lopez Aguilar said on Wednesday. If the law is approved, it will make Spain the third European country to recognise gay marriages after The Netherlands and Belgium.
Ministerial intervention has finally led to the release of documents by Armscor to researchers for the Swiss National Science Foundation project on Swiss-South African military relations under apartheid. ”The requesters had to threaten Armscor with legal action,” said the director of the South African History Archives.
The possible exit of Deputy South African Reserve Bank Governor Gill Marcus follows "close on the heels" of the departure of Barbara Hogan as chairperson of the National Assembly finance portfolio committee, Democratic Alliance shadow finance minister Raenette Taljaard said on Wednesday.