South Africa’s top women’s high jumper, Hestrie Storbeck-Cloete, was chosen as the best in her field by the influential US magazine Track & Field News. She was also listed 16th for the best women in international athletics last year. SA athletes in other fields have also been included in the magazine’s top ten lists: Hezekial […]

JUDGMENT has been reserved by the Pretoria High Court until Friday on whether loose-forward AJ Venter is contactually binded to the Golden Lions, or whether he is entitled to play his rugby for the Sharks. The Lions applied for a High Court order declaring that Venter cannot play for any other side, and that they […]

MOZAMBIQUE has appealed for $2.7-million to help victims of flooding from torrential rains that have swamped parts of southern Africa, the United Nations said on Friday. Donations will be used to purchase emergency supplies including inflatable boats, life jackets, life buoys, tents, as well as ropes, torches and pumps, the UN Office for the Coordination […]

NORWEGIAN Prime Minister Kjell Bondevik was expected to arrive in South Africa on Thursday afternoon for a three-day visit. The prime minister, on his first official visit to South Africa, is scheduled to meet President Thabo Mbeki for bilateral talks on Friday, embassy and government officials said. Bondevik, accompanied by a high-powered business delegation, flies […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Friday 8.00pm South Africa is poised to rescue Zimbabwe from its crippling fuel and looming electricity energy shortages, a Zimbabwean cabinet minister said on Friday. Nathan Shamuyarira said at the end of talks between President Thabo Mbeki and Zimbabwe’s President Robert Mugabe in Harare on Friday that they discussed the country’s […]

TOP German cyclist Jan Ullrich heads a strong field for South Africa’s premier cycling event, the Vodacom Rapport Tour, which starts in Cape Town on Friday and ends on February 19. The 26-year-old Ullrich, 1999 Tour of Spain and 1997 Tour de France winner, leads the Deutsche Telekom team, one of 15 six-member teams competing […]

BAFANA Bafana have been offered a whopping R500000 cash bonus if they beat Nigeria in their African Nations Cup semi-final match on Thursday. Bafana have already earned R500000 from backers Castle Lager after beating Ghana in the semi-finals. Should the team win the trophy, they stand in line to pocket another R1-million for their efforts.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Accra | Thursday 10.45pm. PATRICK Mboma scored twice and Samuel Eto’o once in the second half to give Cameroon a 3-0 victory over Tunisia on Thursday night in the African Nations Cup semi-finals. The Indomitable Lions will now tackle co-hosts and title favourites Nigeria in the final on Sunday in Lagos. It will […]

David Davies Golf Tiger Woods, for whom record breaking seems to be the normal situation, has equalled one of the more unlikely marks in golf, and is now in pursuit of one of the most preposterous. The world number one, whose win at the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this week took his successive United States […]

Patekile Holomisa A SECOND LOOK One of the ironies of post-colonial Africa is the ease with which its new rulers find comfort within the governance systems of their former oppressors, while they all invariably seem not to know what to do with the indigenous systems that have somehow managed to survive the colonial onslaught. There […]