ALGERIAN club USMA have been disqualified from the African Cup Winners’ Cup for fielding an ineligible player during the first round. African Football Confederation spokesman Dr Viken Djizmedjian said Monday that USMA used Issaka Coulibaly against JS Tenere of Niger without an international transfer certificate from Burkina Faso. Tenere, who lost the tie 2-1 on […]
BANGLADESH cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage at the weekend, will be flown to Singapore for an examination, his wife said on Tuesday. A doctor at the Combined Military Hospital where Barlow is being treated said the South African’s condition was stable. “The Bangladesh Cricket Board is sending my husband to Singapore […]
SOUTH Africa’s Amanda Coetzer, a wildcard entry, got off to a winning start in the $535000-dollar WTA tournament in Hamburg on Tuesday beating Romania’s Ruxandra Dragomir 6-0, 6-4. Coetzer, who was seeded eighth after an injury-related withdrawal by Russian Elena Likhovtseva, only struggled early in the second set when she had to come back from […]
BRITISH Foreign Secretary Robin Cook said he will use a meeting of Commonwealth foreign ministers in London on Tuesday to exert pressure on Zimbabwe to ease the political crisis in the country. But the Commonwealth Ministerial Action Group is expected to stop short of sanctions to force Zimbabwe to end political violence and intimidation and […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria, Jolo | 8.00pm. THE South African government on Tuesday urged Manila to take no action that could endanger 21 hostages, two of them South African, who are being held by Muslim rebels on an island in the Philippines. Sipho Pityana, the director general of the foreign ministry, said in Pretoria: “Nothing should […]
JOHN MEHAFFEY, London | Tuesday 2.25am INTERNATIONAL cricket chiefs gathered behind closed doors at Lord’s on Tuesday to discuss match-fixing allegations threatening the game’s credibility. Eighteen International Cricket Council (ICC) delegates will meet for two days in an emergency meeting triggered by South African captain Hansie Cronje’s confession that he took money from a bookmaker. […]
THE ACT Brumbies were stripped further of their forward strength with news on Tuesday that back-row enforcer Owen Finegan is out of rugby for six months. Finegan will undergo surgery next week on his left knee after a scan revealed the 26-Test veteran and World Cup winner tore his medial and cruciate ligaments against the […]
FIVE Kenyan soldiers with the UN peacekeeping force in Sierra Leone were abducted on Tuesday from the eastern town of Magburaka by former rebels, UN officials in Freetown said, after announcing an unspecified number of UN soldiers had been kidnapped in two other attacks. Force commander Vijay Jetley said in a statement on the other […]
POLICE have named Stormers and Springbok rugby player Robbie Kempson as the suspect arrested by police on Sunday in connection with the attempted rape of a 17-year-old girl in Claremont. Cape Town police spokesman Captain Jacques Wiese confirmed the player was released on R2000 bail after he appeared in the Wynberg Magistrate’s Court on Sunday. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Zamboanga | Tusday 9.00am. MANY of the hostages abducted from a Malaysian resort last weekend are on the verge of a nervous breakdown, South Africa’s Monique Strydom already having collapsed. The hostages being held by Muslim extremists are asking for food and clean water, a kidnapper, Abu Issa, said in an interview with […]