SWAZILAND have fired coach Francis Banda just one week before facing Kenya in an African Nations Cup preliminary-round match here. Zambian Banda was axed after a 2-0 loss to South Africa in a Castle Cup Southern Africa championship match last weekend, the latest in a string of poor results for the kingdom this year. He […]
A FATHER and two children died, and five other children were seriously ill overnight after being contaminated near Cairo by an object described as radioactive. Officials from the electricity ministry and the Atomic Energy Authority of Egypt have since retrieved the undisclosed object from the family home after encasing it in a lead containe. Neighboring […]
MOZAMBICAN international striker Manuel ‘Tico Tico’ Bucuane has moved from South African club Jomo Cosmos to American Major League Soccer side Tampa Bay Rowdies. National team captain Bucuane said Monday he would replace Raul Arce, who had been transferred to DC United. He goes to Rowdies after being rejected by the Florida club earlier this […]
DUTCH coach Clemens Westerhof has parted ways with Zimbabwe one week after a humiliating World Cup loss in Guinea, according to media reports on Monday. The Herald quoted Zimbabwe Football Association vice-chairman Vicent Pamire saying Westerhof had been fired from his $30000-a-month post after less than two years in charge. Westerhof resigned, claimed the Daily […]
FORMER welfare minister Abe Williams has been sentenced to three years in jail for corruption. Williams, a National Party politician who served in South Africa’s first post-apartheid cabinet, was last week found guilty in the Cape High Court on 36 charges of theft and four charges of corruption relating to a total of R508254. Judge […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Wednesday 11.45am. MORE than 4500 penguins covered in oil after a spill off the country’s west coast have been transported from their colony on Robben Island to Cape Town for treatment. “We expect at least 10000 more to be taken off the island by the weekend,” South African National Conservation […]
THE Organisation of African Unity said on Tuesday it had called on the United Nations to speed up the deployment of a peacekeeping force inside Eritrea’s border with Ethiopia. The UN force, acting under the aegis of the OAU, was provided for in a deal Asmara and Addis Ababa signed June 18 to halt a […]
FORMER Springbok fly-half Joel Stransky will not be joining Premiership One Bristol as their new backline coach for the coming season, the club confirmed Monday. Stransky, 32, had been expected to link up with director of rugby Bob Dwyer, senior coach Dean Ryan and defensive coach Ellery Hanley as the west country club aimed for […]
DEFENDING champions South Africa qualified for the final of the Southern Hemisphere Alliance Under-21 Tournament with a 36-5 win over Scotland in their final Pool match on Wednesday. The South Africans, who beat Tonga 79-6 and Australia 25-24 in their previous matches, scored six tries to one in wet and slippery conditions at the North […]
SANTOS announced on Tuesday that former Bafana Bafana coach Clive Barker has been appointed as coach for the forthcoming season, and that Barker will be assisted by Boebie Solomon. The club will also be bolstered by two unnamed international players.