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. […]

FORMER Iron Man Morne Bester rode to a hair’s breadth of a victory in the 109km Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour on Sunday. Bester was German rider Alexander Kastenhuber rode neck on neck over the gruelling Ou Kaapseweg hill climb and Blue Route highway on the return to Cape Town, before Bester inched ahead […]

CARLOS Alhinho will succeed Brazilian Djalma Cavalcante as coach of Angola, the Angolan national football association said. Alhinho steered the Black Panthers to their first African Nations Cup appearance four years ago, only to be fired when the team finished last behind South Africa, Egypt and Cameroon in Group A. Despite leading a national team […]

AMAZULU gave themselves an extra life in the battle against relegation from the PSL when they deadlocked 0-0 with Jomo Cosmos at Vosloorus on Sunday. Cosmos earned their first log-point under coach Eddie Lewis, holding on grimly for the full 90 minutes before the end came and they could go back to Durban with a […]

DURBAN-based black empowerment company South African Shipbuilding (SAFBuild) has completed the first of a two harbour tug construction contract for Portnet worth R104-million. Business Report indicates that SAFBuild is the only shipbuilding company in Durban and the only major firm specialising in that type of work in South Africa. Peter Meredith, the senior marine engineer […]

BRITAIN will not take action against Zimbabwe for contravening a section of the Vienna Convention after officials opened a diplomatic consignment bag. A British foreign office spokesman in London said the opening of the diplomatic bag at gun point was quite an unprecedented act which had never happened anywhere in the world. “We, as the […]

EIGHT Civil Co-Operation Bureau members have applied for amnesty for conspiring to kill minister Dullah Omar in 1989. The eight applicants, Carl Casteling Botha, Leon Andre Maree, Wouter Basson, Abram Van Zyl, Daniel F Du Toit Burger, Pieter Johan Verster, Edward Webb and Ferdinand Barnard planned to kill Omar by switching medicine he regalarly took […]

POLICE, Home Affairs officials and army troops arrested 750 people in a clean-up operation in Johannesburg suburbs Berea and Hillbrow on Monday morning. The operation kicked off at 3am on Monday morning and in three-and-a-half hours 750 suspected illegal immigrants were arrested. Illegal firearms and drugs were also found in the operation which is expected […]

THE chartered accountant appointed to spearhead Mpumalanga’s campaign against financial fraud and corruption, Ivan Maswanganye, has admitted he is himself a fraud who has duped two provincial governments and Statistics SA. Maswanganye and his immediate family went into hiding at the weekend after confessing that he has not even passed matric. He pledged, however, to […]