NIGERIAN international Jay Jay Okocha said on Thursday that the present national team is good enough to qualify for the 2002 World Cup despite complaints that the squad is old and needs new players. “I wonder why people say we are too old. I don’t believe that. We’re very strong and still in good shape […]
TENNIS legend Martina Navratilova made her return to top-flight tennis on Tuesday in the Madrid Open, winning her return to doubles with South Africa’s Mariaan De Swardt. Saying she felt like a juggler and that her return was “very iffy,” Navratilova, in her first tournament match in six years struggled with her ball toss and […]
LONDON Wasps fly-half Alex King has withdrawn from next month’s tour of South Africa, England coach Clive Woodward confirmed on Thursday. King, Jonny Wilkinson’s fly-half back-up, has been ruled out of England’s 40-man squad due to a shoulder injury. “Alex has told me he won’t be available for the tour, and I am very disappointed […]
JOHNNIC, the media, entertainment and telecommunications company, said on Friday it will apply for the second fixed-line telecommunications licence. Telkom’s monopoly of the fixed-line market is due to expire at the latest 2003. It is anticipated that Johnnic will look to team up with the telecommunications divisions of Transnet and Telkom to secure the bid. […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 2.15pm THREE local fighters will be in action in Denmark on Friday night when Xolani Ndleleni, the national junior bantamweight champion, challenges Jesper Jensen for the IBC junior bantamweight world title. Jensen has previously beaten two South African fighters on his home ground, but may find Ndeleni a different kettle […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.50pm. THE price of gold plunged to the lowest level since last September on Friday as gloomy sentiment surrounding the precious metal was deepened by the global trend towards higher interest rates. Early on Friday, the spot price of gold fell to $270,05 an ounce, the lowest level since September […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.30am. GOLD Fields Limited, the world’s second largest gold producer, warned shareholders on Thursday that prices may move because the company is in discussions “with a number of parties.” “Shareholders of Gold Field Limited [JSE – GFL, Nasdaq – GOLD] are advised that, as a consequence of Gold Fields being […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Friday 10.40am. ERITREA’s army must be incapacitated before Ethiopia will agree to halt a two-year-old conflict with its neighbour, the Ethiopian ambassador said in Nairobi on Friday. “Ethiopia would not stop the fighting until it makes sure that Eritrea is not a threat to its national security,” Tashome Toga told a […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Atlanta | Friday 2.30pm. COCA-Cola will not allow tension in Zimbabwe to ruin its plans for huge investment in South Africa, a Coca-Cola executive said in Atlanta. “We’re there for the long haul,” said Carl Ware, executive vice president for Coca-Cola. “We’ve just opened a major bottling plant in Angola. We’re still doing […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 9.15am. A RETIRED member of South African Airways’s senior management has admitted that the carrier regularly carried highly explosive substances as well as weapons aboard passenger flights in the 1980s. The Beeld reports that Brian Watkins, a retired senior route manager at SAA, told the paper: “We murdered the people […]