SOUTH African champions Mamelodi Sundowns scored a credible away draw when they held Nkana FC of Zambia to a 1-1 draw in their African Champions’ League match at Kitwe on Sunday. Sundowns have never gone past the second round in four previous attempts in the three annual competitions but are now perfectly positioned, with the […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am FEW Castle Premiership clubs seem to revel fighting their way out of a tight corner more than Free State Stars and so it proved on a freezing evening at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town. A 1-0 victory over Santos in a crucial match for the relegation-threatened visitors was achieved […]
SOUTH Africa’s Proteas women’s hockey team were held to a 2-2 stalemate with Argentina in the third test in Buenos Aires on Sunday. Karen Bentley and Pietie Coetzee scored South Africa’s goals, but the Argentines fought back strongly, scoring the equaliser five minutes before time.
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am A GOAL minute into injury time from former Bafana Bafana striker Pollen Ndlanya gave relegation-threatened AmaZulu a 1-0 win over Classic in a tense Castle Premiership match at Makhulong Stadium. The three points by no means assure the Usuthu of survival, but another win at Ajax Cape Town in […]
ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. AGAINST all the odds there is still a chance that not one, but two South African teams could contest the Super 12 semi-finals. Brilliant performances by the Cats and the Stormers earned them the right to hope and had it not been for last minute scores in two matches, […]
BANGLADESH’S cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage last month, has “improved a little” and is able to speak, his wife Cally said on Sunday. She said he had been given physiotherapy for paralysis of the left side of his body. Barlow will be flown to Singapore on Monday for an examination at […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.15pm. THE country’s biggest banking trade union said it will hold protest meetings in major cities across the country on Friday to show its opposition to banking group Nedcor’s bid for rival Stanbic. Sasbo, which has 65000 members, has been vocal in its criticism of the proposed takeover on the […]
MARK GLEESON, Johannesburg | Monday 12.45pm NIGERIA’S miserable record in Africa’s leading club competition looks set to continue after Lobi Stars were held to a 1-1 draw in their second round, first leg African Champions League match at home by Angolan opposition on Sunday. No Nigerian team has ever won the African Champions League since […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 4.30pm. THE rand slid again on Monday afternoon, hit by fresh weakness in the euro and offshore selling in New York as US players returned to the market after triggering a slide in the local currency to record lows last week. The rand was last trading at R6,98 to dollar […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Jolo | Monday 11.20am. A PHILIPPINE television crew on Sunday caught images of 21 mostly foreign hostages huddled in a forest clearing, looking helpless and stricken with grief. The hostages — two South Africans, nine Malaysians, three Germans, two French, two Finns, two Filipinos and a Lebanese — have been in Jolo since […]