Nobody could have imagined that Orlando Pirates would be knocked out in the early stages of the Absa Cup, even their opponents. Silver Stars co-director Larry Brookstone says: “We were flattered just to be on the same field with Pirates. This is a wonderful achievement in the history of the club.”
After not being given much chance in this column last week, Set Afire came home smoking in the Grade 1 Horse Chestnut Stakes at Turffontein, showing what a loss David Ferraris will be to the South African trainers’ ranks when he departs to pursue his career in Hong Kong.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) is split over what action to take in the final showdown with President Robert Mugabe regarding the country’s economic and political crisis, official sources said this week.
If boxing could be likened to a meal, this weekend’s featherweight world title fight between Marco Antonio Barrera and Kevin Kelley would be a cordon bleu feast.
Bulls coach Rudy Joubert has a problem: his team keeps losing close matches. In six Super 12 games this season the Bulls have won two and lost four, but the only team who actually subdued them and took them to the cleaners was the Brumbies. And in Canberra the Brumbies can do that to anyone.
As Dave McNeilly, caddie to Padraig Harrington, walked the Augusta National course this week he could hear, at every green, a humming sort of noise that, mysteriously, seemed to be coming from under the ground.
Tiger Woods, champion for the past two years, teed off at the Augusta National on Thursday as the hottest favourite in the history of the US Masters – or any other major championship.
The South African cricket team’s matches in Bangladesh will not be broadcast to fans in South Africa because neither the SABC nor SuperSport were able to reach agreement with the host broadcaster in Bangladesh on the rights for the tour.
Kurdish fighters and US forces today swept into Iraq’s third city, Mosul, after Saddam Hussein loyalists abandoned one of the last strongholds of his dying regime.
The South African Police Service’s forensic science laboratory has only half its ideal staff complement, according to Safety and Security Minister Charles Nqakula.