ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Durban | Sunday 7.00pm. Lucky Kaizer Chiefs snatched a 1-0 Bob Save Super Bowl victory over Manning Rangers at Chatsworth Stadium on Sunday thanks to a moment of stealth from Siyabonga Nomvete. There appeared to be no immediate danger when Chiefs Namibian wingback Robert Nauseb held off a clumsy challenge from a Rangers […]
BANKING group Nedcor is still keen to buy FBC Fidelity Holdings and could use the troubled domestic lender as a vehicle to separately list its mass-market People’s Bank, analysts said. Speculation has mounted in the South African media in recent weeks that the sale of FBC, placed in receivership last October following a run on […]
EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe has increased the stakes in Zimbabwe’s land battle, refusing to condemn the deaths of three political opponents in a weekend of violence. The crisis even threatens the unity of his own party. Two black officials and a white farmer, all members of the opposition Movement for […]
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THREE Indian cricketers admitted placing bets on a match in England a few years ago, a former head of India’s cricket control board said on Sunday. “When confronted by me they admitted they were placing small bets on matches at a legal betting place in England,” Inderjit Singh Bindra, former president of the Board for […]
DISGRACED former cricket captain Hansie Cronje faced damaging new allegations when a former girlfriend told Britain’s top-selling Sun tabloid that he was a love cheat. Cronje ended an 18-month affair with Debbie Coleman of Derbyshire in central England as they lay in bed after making love, the Sun reported. Coleman, 33, told the newspaper she […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Harare | Sunday 9.30pm. ZIMBABWEAN President Robert Mugabe vowed Sunday not to order black squatters off white-owned farms, amid escalating tensions after the murders of two opposition members and a white farmer. Five other farmers were brutally attacked in towns outside the capital, while several opposition members survived a petrol bomb attack. At […]
GRANT SHIMMIN & OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.30pm LANCE Klusener was again the hero, smashing an unbeaten 52 in his 87 partnership with Mark Boucher, as South Africa won Sunday’s final one-day international to seal the ”revenge” series 2-1 against Australia. Needing to better Australia’s 205 all out, Boucher smashed a four for SA […]
AUSTRALIAN umpire Barry Jarman said on Thursday he doesn’t believe the controversial fifth Test between South Africa and England in January was fixed. The Test at Centurion Park in which both teams agreed to forfeit an innings after three days of rain, was won by England, who triumphed by two wickets with five balls to […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 7.00pm. WHAT a bad weekend it is proving to be for Bob Save Super Bowl favourites with holders SuperSport United and Orlando Pirates losing at home in the quarer-finals. A headed goal from substitute Ernest Marumo with 11 minutes remaining at Caledonian Stadium gave relegation-threatened AmaZulu a shock 1-0 win […]