DAVID SHAPSHAK, Sydney | Monday 11.00am. QUEENSLAND rugby coach John Connolly said on Sunday that there was a “strong possibility” he would take over Natal Sharks but added he still had to decide whether to reapply for his current job. Queensland ended this season’s Super 12 campaign in seventh place following Saturday night’s 33-26 win […]

SURINA de Beer, playing in her first-ever Fed Cup match, will get South Africa’s campaign off the ground in La Manga on Tuesday. De Beer, ranked 170th, faces up to Greece’s Evagelia Roussi, ranked 557th in her first match as South Africa’s number two singles player. South Africa are seeded seventh for the tournament and […]

FINAL Super 12 standings (collated as played, win, drew, lost, for, against, points). ACT Brumbies 11 9 0 2 393 196 45 Cant. Crusaders 11 8 0 3 369 293 39 Otago Highlanders 11 6 0 5 323 280 32 Cats 11 7 0 4 320 334 32 Stormers 11 6 1 4 298 276 […]

THE coach of Nigeria’s Lobi Stars, who are representating the country in the African Champions League, has been dismissed, a top club official said on Monday. “Coach Godwin Uwua has been sacked,” club secretary Francis Ijiga said. Another top official was also sacked and Uwua was replaced by Andrew Agu, one of the junior officials […]

AIDS is the biggest threat to development in Botswana, where about one in five of the 1,5-million population are Hiv positive, a government-sponsored study said on Monday. The report said nearly half of all households in Botswana probably have at least one member infected with the virus. Around one-quarter of households could be expected to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 2.20pm. SHARES in Brainware extended last week’s slide after the troubled tech company brought more bad news to the market when it announced that a pending funds injection deal has fallen through. By 11.30am, the counter had lost another 42% or three cents to hit a record low of four […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Monday 12.45pm. FORMER South African politician Finnish President Martti Ahtisaari and former South African politician Cyril Ramaphosa met British Prime Minister Tony Blair on Monday at the start of an IRA arms monitoring mission crucial to peace in Northern Ireland. The two men met Blair in his Downing Street office before […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.00pm. LEGISLATORS said on Friday they expect to move quickly on the formation of a new telecommunications and broadcasting regulator to replace the existing often criticised organisations. President Thabo Mbeki on Thursday signed into law an act allowing for the creation of the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (Icasa), […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.30am. ALL eyes will be on the rand on Monday, after the currency touched fresh lows against the dollar last week. It was trading around R7,03 to the US currency in early trade on Monday. But Reserve Bank governor Tito Mboweni said on Friday it is important for the bank […]