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/ 12 December 2003
Colombia are last in the 10-team South American qualifying group after four games, with eight goals against and two goals for. One big problem for the Colombian team has to do with money. Too much of it can kill a team, just as too much rain can kill the coca plant.
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/ 12 December 2003
The South African sevens team started the Emirates Airline South African sevens tournament in impressive fashion in George at Outeniqua Park on Friday, easily beating Namibia 49-5 in their opening Pool D game. The hosts ran in seven tries on the opening day of the second leg of the International Rugby Board’s Sevens Series
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/ 12 December 2003
Ernie Els of South Africa has won the 2003 Asprey Golfer of the Year Award for the second successive season, following another remarkable campaign in which he won five individual titles on the European Tour and captured the Volvo Order of Merit for the first time.
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/ 12 December 2003
Alex Ferguson’s future as Manchester United manager is reportedly being challenged by a group of Old Trafford directors who claim he is power-hungry. The 62-year-old Ferguson expected to be offered a three-year extension to his current contract, which would keep him at the club until 2007.
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/ 12 December 2003
Herschelle Gibbs is by no means the only player who needs to provide evidence of an unglamorous yet vital work ethic. It has been more than two years since a South African number five or six scored a Test century, the last one going to some bloke by the name of Lance Klusener. It’s time for the Proteas to take off the training wheels.
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/ 12 December 2003
Lemmer is amused by South African government mouthpieces who regularly lambast Australia and other countries for their ”megaphone diplomacy” towards Mad Bad Bob up north, while touting our own approach. Considering how spectacularly unsuccessful the softly, softly method has been, perhaps we should rename it ”pin-drop diplomacy”.
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/ 12 December 2003
Even as the Anglophiles battled it out in Abuja, North Africans and their European neighbours across the Mediterranean were having a summit of their own. The practically named Five-plus-Five summit in Tunis brought the presidents of Mauritania, Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia and Libya together with their counterparts from Spain, Portugal, France, Italy and Malta.
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/ 12 December 2003
Orlando Pirates might be in need of some fresh ideas to beat Kaizer Chiefs in Saturday’s big clash at Soccer City. That is because both scorers in December 2001’s 3-0 victory (their last win against the old enemy), two-goal hero Lesley Manyathela and Benedict Vilakazi, will not be available this weekend.
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/ 12 December 2003
New South African Rugby Football Union president Brian van Rooyen has some fractious times ahead, but it will no doubt help his peace of mind to be able to actually watch some rugby when he arrives at Outeniqua Park in George on Friday for the second leg of the IRB International Sevens series.
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