AN Mpumalanga farmer had to hire a helicopter from Durban, at the cost of more than R250000 over the past three days, to transport feed for his chickens from a delivery point a mere 8km away. The floods have churned up the dirt road connecting farm to the main tar road to White River. “It […]

FRANCOIS Davids has been appointed as the new Convenor of the Springbok selection committee following a recent Sarfu executive committee meeting. Davids, a member of the Springbok selection committee since March 1996, replaces Mickey Gerber. He is joined on the selection committee by former Springbok Captain Wynand Claassen and Springbok coach Nick Mallett. Francois has […]

FLOOD-DEVASTATED Mozambiquans are bracing themselves for the arrival of tropical cyclone Eline on Monday afternoon. The Weather Bureau in Pretoria said on Sunday that the cyclone will probably announce its arrival with heavy showers over southern Mozambique. The cyclone has already killed two people in Madagascar and has since been crossing the Mozambique Channel. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Vosloorus | Saturday 6.00pm. BENNI McCarthy scored on his return to international football as South Africa’s under23 side — Amaglug-glug — defeated Cameroon 2-0 in an Olympic Games qualifier on Saturday. Voted best player of the 1998 African Nations Cup after finishing joint leading scorer, McCarthy quit last September because he claimed regular […]

BAFANA Bafana are the highest ranked team in African football according to Fifa world rankings released after the African Nations Cup. Bafana are ranked 21st in the world, just behind Scotland. Nations Cup finalists Cameroon and Nigeria both made big leaps with Cameroon, moving up 23 places to 34th while Nigeria gain 25 places to […]

THE South African Marathon Championships is set to be bolstered by the inclusion of a number of African teams, Athletics South Africa said on Thursday. ASA’s chief executive officer, Banele Sindani said that: “Kenya, Botswana and Ethiopia have confirmed that they are each sending athletes to compete.” The Championships take place in Cape Town on […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Sunday 7.00pm. ENGLAND captain Nasser Hussain warned Zimbabwe there was no chance of his side easing up after winning their third one-day match by 85 runs on Sunday. The result puts the tourists 3-0 up in the four-match series with the final game in Harare on Wednesday. It also evens up […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Sunday 11.00pm. A 49-run ninth wicket partnership between Harbhajan Singh and Amit Bhandari helped the India Board President’s X1 to avoid having to follow on against South Africa on Sunday. On a day when several batsmen on trial for a place in the India test team failed it was left to […]

ENRIQUE Areco failed to come out for the eleventh round for his WBO junior middleweight world title clash with Harry Simon in Dagenham, England on Saturday night. Simon dominated the entire bout and punished the brave Argentian throughout. This victory sets Simon up for his next defence which is schedlued to take place the first […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Sunday 11.00pm. SACHIN Tendulkar is to step down as India’s captain following the team’s disastrous performance under him on their recent tour of Australia. Tendulkar said on Sunday he would give up the job after the two-test home series against South Africa starting in Bombay on Thursday. He is staying on […]