SUDAN were given a 1-0 win over Mozambique through an 8th minute strike by veteran Farouk Gabra seeing Sudan through their first-round African qualifier for the 2002 World Cup. The two sides will meet in the second leg in Mozambique in two weeks.

NEDERBURG said sales from its annual wine auction have risen 5,8% to a new record of R5,8-million. A statement that 86% of the buyers are South African, 6% Namibian and 9% are other foreign buyers. The top six supermarkets and liquor retailers bought 33% of the wine, with Spar supermarkets buying the most. The highest […]

THE nightmarish Eritrean pitch made sure that Olympic champions Nigeria were held to a goalless draw in their qualifier on Sunday. Nigerian coach Jo Bonfrere blamed the Eritrean pitch, saying that it made passing impossible, and said that his team had more problems with the pitch than the opposition.

RWANDA and the Ivory Coast drew 2-2 in their first round World Cup qualifier. Akassaou Gislain scored first in the closing minute of the first half, but Rwandan Mily Hassan equalised just after the break. Rwanda went two-up when Julien Ndagan scored, but the lead was short-lived as Kiata Fadel equalised before a crowd of […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 2.15pm. THE chief organisers of South Africa’s bid for the 2006 World Cup finals declared on Monday that they are looking for “moral support” from the Organisation of African Unity. “We are not coming here to obtain the endorsement of the OAU but to present our case that the […]

SOUTH African gold production is this calendar year is expected to fall below 400 tons, miner Gold Fields said on Tuesday. Gold Fields chairman Chris Thompson said declining ore grades in South African mines are behind the decline. He said South Africa’s market share of world gold production has declined to about 20%. “Falling grades […]

THE first South African-manufactured components of the high-tech Swedish jet fighter, the Gripen, have been handed to the aircraft’s builders at Uitenhage. Eastern Cape based precision engineering company COMAU-AIMS has been contracted to manufacture pylon systems which will house the fighter’s weapons external fuel tanks and other equipment. The Uitenhage link is a result of […]

ABOUT half of the employees at the State Theatre in Pretoria are to be retrenched. That’s because Arts, Culture, Science and Technology Minister Ben Ngubane has decided to restructure the company. He said in a statement that the theatre needed to cater for the needs of the broader South African public. Pending the finalisation of […]

AT least ten students were killed and many others were injured during violent clashes between police and student protestors in the Gambian capital Banjul, witnesses said. The number of dead could rise, a journalist who visited the Banjul hospital morgue said. The hospital, which has been closed to visitors, has launched an appeal for blood […]