Kaizer Chiefs on Monday announced that Bafana Bafana midfielder Jabu Pule will appear before the club’s disciplinary committee in Naturena, Johannesburg, on Friday for disappearing on the eve of a crucial match. Pule disappeared on the eve of the Absa Cup match against Mamelodi Sundowns two weeks ago.
Hundreds of angry protesters stormed the Justice Ministry in Côte d’Ivoire’s commercial capital on Tuesday, beating up magistrates and looting to protest the appointment of judges they claimed were close to the main opposition party. The mob beat up at least five judges.
A pitch mauled by unusually heavy rains is shaping up as a dominant factor in the first cricket Test between New Zealand and South Africa starting on Wednesday. The two sides are expected to take a close look at the wicket block where the grass growth is badly affected by wet weather in the past six weeks.
The International Cricket Council’s board opened a two-day meeting in Aukland on Tuesday with the fate of England’s proposed and increasingly controversial tour of Zimbabwe topping the agenda. The chairperson of the Zimbabwe Cricket Union, Peter Chingoka, was among the early arrivals at the meeting but made no comment.
New Zealand all-rounder Chris Cairns and South African rival Shaun Pollock will on Wednesday go into a three test series knowing they could both make the elite 3 000-run, 300-wicket double.
Australia maintained their unbeaten record against South Africa, and beat the home team 64-41 in the first Spar Challenge netball test match played at the University of Port Elizabeth’s Vista Campus on Monday evening. South Africa started off exceptionally well and kept pace with the visitors for most of the first two quarters.
An investigation into racism in rugby and Kamp Staaldraad has been completed, and the South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) will apologise to players, SABC television reported on Monday. Sarfu president Brian van Rooyen told SABC that a report would be handed to Minister of Sport and Recreation Ngconde Balfour later in the week.
Justin Kemp collected the man of the match award and there were two debut half-centuries at SuperSport Park on Monday as Northerns Nashua Titans and Gauteng’s Highveld Strikers battled their way to an inevitable draw in their SuperSport Series Shield game.
Hundreds of people went on a looting rampage on Monday at an industrial park near Port-au-Prince airport, attacking passing cars and threatening journalists with machetes, witnesses said. The latest unrest came one day after at least six peoplewere killed when gunmen opened fire on an opposition rally in the Haitian capital.
The National Conventional Arms Control Committee (NCACC) on Monday rejected claims made by the Democratic Alliance regarding South African arms sales to Haiti. ”Accusations of impropriety by the DA’s [federal council chairperson] Mr James Selfe, as reported in the press, are simply untrue,” an NCACC statement said.
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