Real Madrid, defending champion AC Milan, Arsenal and Monaco reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Wednesday. Chelsea, Deportivo, Lyon and Porto advanced on Tuesday with the draw for the quarterfinals of Europe’s number-one club competition scheduled for Friday in Nyon, Switzerland.
Ajax Cape Town lost ground on the PSL log table when they were held to a 1-1 draw by Dynamos at the Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night. The game kicked off eight minutes late after Dynamos failed to bring their away strips and much wrangling took place as Dynamos’ white shirts were too similar to Ajax’s red and white.
A last-gasp goal from substitute Peter Khoabane earned SuperSport United a hard-fought 1-0 win over neighbours Sundowns in a tense Pretoria Castle Premiership derby played at the Odi stadium on Wednesday night. Both teams seemed scared of each other and were determined not to give a goal away.
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"Last week, like most weeks, I found myself thinking hard about the United States. In particular I found myself thinking about the tide of anti-Americanism sweeping the world after President George W Bush’s decision to stabilise the Middle East by colonising it". Paul Carr finds that the one area in which the US leads the world lies in the creation and reporting of political scandals.
A mysterious third person may have been involved in the Sizzlers massacre that left nine people dead in January last year, the Cape Town High Court heard on Wednesday. Defence counsel Nehemiah Ballem, representing taxi operator Trevor Basil Theys, said his client was afraid of this third person.
Five people were killed and 51 injured in revolt-racked Indian Kashmir when Islamic rebels detonated a grenade to escape from a house where they had tried to abduct a civilian, police said on Wednesday. But witnesses said one of the men who entered the house west was working for Indian security forces.
The Zimbabwe government is getting more desperate by the day to hang on to power, with that country’s Minister of Information, Jonathan Moyo, taking things too far by referring to journalists as ”mercenaries”, says the New National Party. NNP media director Carol Johnson said Moyo’s statement ”flies in the face of a free media”.
The men arrested aboard a captured plane in Zimbabwe are all former South African National Defence Force soldiers from Unit 32, based in Namibia, a diplomatic source said on Wednesday. The source said the plane had indeed been transporting mercenaries to Equatorial Guinea.
It’s all a ‘misunderstanding’
Mercenaries ‘came to collect guns’