A RECORD 809 foreign athletes will compete in the 75th Comrades Marathon on June 16, with 297 athletes hailing from Africa. In the race’s biggest-ever field of more than 23000, Zimbabwe will be the best-represented country with 179 competitors, while the Zimbabwean Harare Athletics Club field 143 athletes. Other African countries with Comrades competitors are […]
JEREMY LOVELL, Johannesburg | Sunday 6.00pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has secured money from Norway and Saudi Arabia to help pay for the redistribution of white-owned land in Zimbabwe to blacks. According to the Sunday Times, the two governments have pledged R100-million ($14.2-million, 15.7-million euros) to enable the Zimbabwean government to buy 118 farms from whites. […]
WAR veterans and their supporters who invaded a national park in the south of Zimbabwe narrowly escaped death when they were attacked by an angry pride of lions. The independent Daily News reports that a group of around 100 war veterans invaded a private game estate within the Gonarezhoue park, the country’s second largest, to […]
ACT Brumbies coach Eddie Jones believes a dozen of his side beaten by New Zealand’s Canterbury Crusaders in Saturday night’s Super 12 final should be in the Wallaby squad. He said on Sunday the Wallaby squad for the year’s first Test against Argentina to be named on June 7 should not be decided by the […]
CRAIG White’s omission on health grounds is the only change to the England squad for the second and final Test against Zimbabwe starting at Trent Bridge, Nottingham, on Thursday. All-rounder White, who was in the party of 13 for the first Test at Lord’s but was left out on the morning of the match, has […]
CAROL PINEAU, Dekemhare, Eritrea | Sunday 6.00pm. ETHIOPIAN troops pounded positions inside Eritrea and forced thousands of civilians to flee toward safety on Sunday, a day before the Horn of Africa neighbors were due to meet in Algiers for indirect talks. The fresh frontlines were around Senafe, Tsorona and Adi Quala, south of the capital. […]
PRATAP CHAKRAVARTY, New Delhi | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIAN police on Sunday said they have identified a string of bookmakers linked to the match-fixing scandal involving disgraced South African skipper Hansie Cronje. The claim came a day after former Indian all-rounder Manoj Prabhakar left the country gasping by displaying at a news conference video clips of […]
WEST African leaders gathered in the Nigerian capital on Sunday to discuss backing for a regional military force to bolster a United Nations mission struggling to enforce a peace accord in war-ravaged Sierra Leone. Earlier, a mini-summit of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) met into the early hours preparing a report on […]
MATTHEW TOSTEVIN, Freetown | Sunday 9.00pm. THE United Nations said on Sunday that another 30 of its Sierra Leone peacekeepers had been released by their rebel captors and were now in Monrovia, the capital of Liberia. UN spokesman David Wimhurst said in Freetown the UN was hopeful that more would be freed soon. According to […]
JULIAN LINDEN, Wellington | Sunday 7.00pm. TRIUMPHANT Super 12 captain Todd Blackadder was named on Sunday as captain of the 26-man All Blacks squad which will cover the side’s entire season. He replaces Otago’s Taine Randell, who led the All Blacks through a series of losses and a particularly poor showing in the World Cup […]