THE Canterbury Crusaders will face up to the ACT Brumbies in their vital final-round Super 12 clash without the services of Andrew Mehrtens, but the All Black flyhalf is likely to play in the semi-finals. Mehrtens failed the final fitness test on Wednesday today and his place will be taken for the second week by […]
THE Stormers will field an unchanged side from the one that beat the Hurricanes 43-23 last week when they clash with the Sharks at King’s Park on Saturday. Skipper Corne Krige and Robbie Kempson, both with injury niggles, are expected to be fit before the weekend. Stormers: Percy Montgomery, Breyton Paulse, Robbie Fleck, De Wet […]
TRAFFIC flowing into major centres was backed up on Wednesday, ahead of a planned nationwide strike by the Congress of South African Trade Unions to protest job losses and retrenchments. The strike is expected to cost the country R3,2-billion. Cosatu said the strike has been called because because mediation body Nedlac has “failed to address […]
TRADING group Lonrho Africa said on Monday that it has completed its sale of Lonrho Africa Cotton, the holding company of its cotton ginning operation in Zambia, to the unit of a US cotton merchant for $5,85-million. Lonrho Africa, which was demerged from the mining interests of the late Tiny Rowland’s Lonrho empire in 1998, […]
JOANETTE Kruger has withdrawn from the South African Fed Cup team to play in a Euro/Africa Group One qualifying tournament in La Manga, Spain, next week. Kruger’s teammate Liezel Horn said that she received an e-mail from Kruger where she said that she was carrying a knee injury and did not want to jeopardise the […]
ZAMBIAN Defence Minister Chitalu Sampa on Wednesday accused Angolan government soldiers of entering the country and attacking Zambian troops patrolling the northwestern border. Sampa said at least one Zambian soldier was killed and three were wounded in two attacks last month along the border with the war-torn Angola, which has accused Lusaka of backing the […]
BAFANA Bafana are rated 20th in the latest Fifa world football rankings, a jump of four places. Brazil continue to lead the rankings, with the Czech Republic remaining in second spot ahead of world champions. Egypt moved up five places to 32, and Ghana recorded the biggest improvement to jump ten places to 47th thanks […]
JUDICIAL authorities said on Tuesday they had frozen accounts worth over 600 million euros belonging to late Nigerian dictator Sani Abacha in a move related to a Nigerian investigation into Abacha’s finances. Eight bank accounts holding shares worth 671 million euros at the Luxembourg subsidiary of a foreign bank had been frozen, Deputy Chief Prosecutor […]
FINANCE Minister Trevor Manuel said the weakening of the rand could be attributed to the US currency’s strength more than rand weakness. “There is so much uncertainty and so much turmoil, and what is often read as weakening of some currencies is inordinate strengthening of the dollar against large baskets of currencies,” Manuel told parliament’s […]
DONORS are concerned about hold-ups in the delivery of emergency aid in Ethiopia, including some 16000 mt donated by the European Union which has remained in Djibouti Port for 18 days. There is “a greater need for flexibility” instead of a “tendency towards centralisation” during the present crisis, humanitarian sources said. The Ministry of Transport […]