AUSTRALIA’S World Cup hero Stephen Larkham has called on Super 12 referees to take a tougher stand against foul play after he was flattened three times in last weekend’s opening round of the Southern Hemisphere tournament. Larkham said the sport’s new regulations allowing referees to sin-bin players are not effective against more blatant rough-house tactics. […]
HENNIE le Roux, the form flyhalf of 1999 and 1995 World Cup Springbok, will be considered for the Springboks this year, said Bok coach Nick Mallett. Le Roux was not selected last year, apparently because he didn’t play Super 12 rugby for the Cats. Mallett however chose Jannie de Beer, Fritz van Heerden Brendan Venter […]
BRYAN PEARSON, Cape Town | Thursday 12.45pm. PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki launched South Africa’s first national lottery on Wednesday during a visit to the destitute Langa township, saying the scheme would raise billions of rands for poverty relief. The lottery is expected to raise about R13 billion in five years for good causes, Mbeki said at […]
GRIQUAS thrashed Eastern Province by six wickets in their Standard Bank League match played in Kimberley on Wednesday. EP were restricted to 186/7 in their 45 overs, and the home side reached 187/4 in the 42nd over. EP’s poor score was a direct result of a remarkable batting collapse which saw them fall from 58/2 […]
YP RAJESH, Bangalore | Thursday 4.00pm SOUTH Africa’s five-pronged pace attack sent India tumbling to 158 all out on the first day of the second and last test on Thursday. Mornantau Hayward, who crucially dismissed Sachin Tendulkar for 21, and Shaun Pollock shared four of the seven wickets to fall to the pacemen, with left-arm […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Thursday 1.00pm THE Reserve Bank increased its pool of foreign reserves in February and reduced its foreign borrowing, but not by as much as economists were expecting and financial markets were muted. Gross gold and foreign exchange reserves increased by R400-million to R47-billion and the Reserve Bank’s net open foreign exchange […]
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Zimbabwe’s central bank governor is having ”sleepless nights” over how to tame inflation currently running at more than 120%, The Herald newspaper reported on Friday. Governor Gideon Gono is struggling to contain inflation, which President Robert Mugabe’s government considers the ”number-one enemy”.
ACCUSED Wemmer Pan serial killer Cedric Maupa Maake was found guilty of five counts of murder, five counts of rape, four of armed robbery, two of attempted murder and two of illegal possession of a firearm and ammunition in the Johannesburg High Court on Tuesday. Judge Geraldine Borchers is still to deliver judgment on a […]
THE African Football Confederation has chosen match officials from Senegal to handle the Super Cup showdown between Raja Casablanca of Morocco and Africa Sports of Cote d’Ivoire Sunday. Referee Ndoye Falla and assistants Mamadou Ndoye and Amadou Diop will be in charge of the match between Champions League winners Raja and Cup Winners Cup holders […]