GRANT SHIMMIN, Pietersburg | Saturday 5.00pm. MICHAEL Johnson launched his Olympic campaign devastatingly on Saturday by clocking the fourth fastest 200 metres in history — 19.71 seconds — in his first race of the year. With an ideal following wind of 1.8 metres per second, the Texan raced away from a field that included South […]
AUSTRALIAN Garry McCoy withstood a furious final onslaught from Carlos Checa of Spain to register his first 500cc world championship success by winning the South African Grand Prix on Sunday. The Yamaha rider started the season-opener only ninth on the grid but snatched the lead from Checa with five of the 28 laps to go. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port of Spain | Monday 10.00am. WEST Indies faced the prospect of a 10th defeat in 12 tests when they collapsed from 115 for three to 147 for nine in their second innings against Zimbabwe on Sunday. They ended the rain-hit fourth day of the first test just 98 runs ahead. It had […]
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AN administrative clerk with the Department of Justice in Pretoria will attempt to become the first woman in the world to pull a plane of about 33 tons single-handedly at the first attempt. Judy Jacobs, 44, who is 1,66cm tall, weighs only 74kg. She said she hopes to have this feat noted in the Guiness […]
TELEVISION presenter Tracy Going’s former lover, Richard Latham, has to pay her damages R92577 for assaulting her. In a default judgment pursued in the absence of Latham, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court granted Going the money for the pain she suffered at Latham’s hands. Clinical psychologist Leonard Carr, who evaluated Going, said the extent of the […]
POLICE in the Democratic Republic of Congo briefly detained the Togolese ambassador Mama Gnofang after finding a large stash of Congolese francs in his limousine. Gnofang was stopped on Thursday at Ngobila port on the river Congo as he prepared to cross to Brazzaville in neighbouring Congo, a source at the port said. Security officials […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 4.40pm. Orlando Pirates 1 Bloemfontein Celtic 0 MIDFIELD workaholic Brandon Silent scored his first goal of the season on Saturday to keep Orlando Pirates in the chase for the Castle Premiership title at rain-soaked FNB Stadium. Silent struck after 16 minutes of a close contest, slamming a right-foot shot past […]
POLICE are urging Johannesburg motorists not to stop their cars on the N1 near Mondeor after three drivers were murdered in seperate incidents this week. Most recently, Themba Daniel Mafume, 41, a Sebokeng resident, was murdered after he got out of his car to fix a tire. The modus operandi of the killers is to […]
NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma on Sunday announced his new cabinet, little changed from the team which helped him to his third five-year term with a sizeable majority in December’s elections. Nujoma and the new cabinet — trimmed down to 22 from 25 posts — will be sworn in on Tuesday during Namibia’s tenth independence anniversary […]