DAVID Memy, coach of the Congolese national football team, has resigned. Radio Congo reported on Monday that Memy quit his post with the Red Devils and signed a contract with Manga Sport of Gabon. Memy lead the Red Devils to the African Nations Cup finals in Ghana and Nigeria earlier this year, but they suffered […]
SUSAN NJANJI, Maputo | Monday 6.00pm. FLOOD-RAVAGED Mozambique’s government on Monday said almost 500 people were now known to have died in the catastrophe, while the UN food agency was set to make a new multi-million dollar aid plea. “The total number of people dead found by local authorities is now 492,” a government spokesman […]
DEFENDING Olympic champions Nigeria have complained to soccer’s world governing body Fifa about “shabby treatment” from Angola ahead of Saturday’s Olympic qualifying match in Luanda. “Our Olympic soccer team were given shabby treatment as the hosts provided them with inhabitable accommodation,” the Nigerian Football Association (NFA) said in a statement sent to Fifa on Thursday. […]
AN African parliament to deal with the continent’s problems could be in place by the end of the year, deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad said. Speaking on his return from the 71st ministerial conference of the Organisation for African Unity in Ethiopia, Pahad said the idea has the backing of all the organisation’s member states. […]
SOUTH Africa will be facing a depleted Australian side in their one-day series after Ricky Ponting was sidelined for six months following surgery on an injured ankle. Ponting, one of Australia’s star batsmen, injured his ankle badly when he crashed into the fence diving for a ball in a limited overs match against Pakistan earlier […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Monday 12.30pm. THIS weekend will go down in Super 12 history as the first round in which a South African team failed to win a match as the Sharks lost 51-10 to the ACT Brumbies, the Cats were blasted 61-16 by the Waratahs and the Stormers and Bulls managed to […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Monday 9.30am THE South African government is investigating 10 people for supplying material to Angola’s Unita rebel movement in contravention of United Nations sanctions. The government intends bringing the sanction busters to book, Deputy Foreign Minister Aziz Pahad told journalists on his return from an Organisation of African Unity summit in […]
SANTOS gave big-fish Kaizer Chiefs a scare when the Johannesburg giants had to fight back from a goal down to earn a 1-1 draw in their PSL clash at Bellville on Sunday. Chiefs were struggling in the first-half, but played well in the second and were unfortunate not to have scored at least once more […]
HURRICANES winger Tana Umaga has been suspended for a week after New Zealand Rugby Football Union judicial committee on Monday night after he was sent off in the 24th minute of the match against the Highlanders at Carisbrook. Umaga was given his orders after launching a dangerous tackle on Highlanders wing Romi Ropati. Umaga was […]
UGANDA’S health ministry and the World Health Organisation are studying an outbreak of haemorrhagic fever that has claimed 17 lives in the northwest of Uganda during the past two weeks. According to an official at the country’s virus research institute in Entebbe, medical experts have started investigating the fever, which has symptoms similar to those […]