The Border Bulldogs rugby team, who play the Leopards in Potchefstroom on Friday in a Currie Cup first Division match, have been hard hit by injury.
Côte d’Ivoire’s ruling party has accused Prime Minister Seydou Diarra of colluding with a group of coup plotters arrested in France for allegedly planning to assassinate President Laurent Gbagbo.
Assassins-to-be detained in Côte d’Ivoire
The Independent Communications Authority of SA (Icasa) will announce on Thursday the company it has recommended to Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri as the preferred bidder for a 51% stake in the second national telephone operator (SNO).
Serena and Venus Williams were too hurt to play tennis at the US Open, but not too injured to appear on television shows in New York on Wednesday and declare the Grand Slam event diminished by their absence.
Arsenal and Manchester United kept their early season record perfect on Wednesday. In the third Premier League game for each team, Arsenal won 2-0 at home against Aston Villa and defending champion Man United defeated Wolverhampton 1-0.
Josep Ngake, a former Orlando Pirates player, scored a hat-trick to help Ajax to a 3-1 win over neighbours Hellenic in a PSL soccer match played in Cape Town on Wednesday night.
The Lions go into Saturday’s crunch Currie Cup encounter with the Sharks at Ellis Park on the back of two convincing wins — against the Eagles and Cheetahs — and full of confidence.
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The notoriously crowded and sweaty basement club where the Beatles played
some of their first gigs is about to become a global brand, writes Helen Carter in London, and will soon be opening as far afield as Australia, Spain and Brazil.
Islamic guerrillas waged at least three attacks on Wednesday in the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, injuring three people, soon after Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee arrived for a national conference, police said.