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 […]
KENYAN athletics officials said on Monday that they will ask the International Amateur Athletics Federation to grant cross country title holders automatic qualification to the next championships. Kenya Amateur Ahletic Association (KAAA) secretary David Okeyo told reporters at the weekend that five-time world champion, Paul Tergat, has been granted automatic qualification to run in the […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and other top African National Congress leaders touring Mpumalanga are appalled at the violent and “slave-like” treatment of farm labourers in the region, ANC spokesman Smut Ngonyama said on Monday. The ANC national working committee will, Ngonyama told journalists in Nelspruit, urgently debate possible solutions to the abuse and will request its […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pointe-A-Pierre | Monday 1.05pm. TWO wickets in the final half-hour to leg-spin bowler Brian Murphy help put Zimbabwe in a strong position against the West Indies Cricket Board Presidents XI on the third day of their four-day match at Guaracara Park on Sunday. Behind on first innings by 45 runs, the Presidents XI […]
FORMER New Zealand coach Laurie Mains has added his weight to calls for a fourth Australian team to be included in the Super 12 series. Mains, in Sydney as coach of the Cats ahead of Saturday’s match with New South Wales, told reporters on Thursday he thinks Australia deserve to have an extra team after […]
A BROKEN finger has forced winger Jonah Lomu out of the Wellington Hurricanes Super 12 side to play the Otago Highlanders on Saturday. Lomu’s left hand is in a plaster cast after he broke the finger during the Hurricanes’ win over the Queensland Reds last weekend. He will be replaced by Sevens speedster Brad Fleming. […]