Graham Griffiths, London | Monday 11.30am. ZIMBABWE captain Andy Flower has warned England his players are down but not out after being crushed in the first test that ended at Lord’s on Sunday. ”We are not demoralised to the extent where we cannot fight back,” Flower said as the touring team began planning to turn […]
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BRYAN PEARSON, Harare | Sunday 3.00pm. ANTI-government groups in Zimbabwe have begun to tighten the screws on the ruling party, calling for a tax boycott, a university class boycott and deciding to “test the waters” on political thuggery by staging an election rally near a flashpoint Harare suburb. Police, however, moved in long before the […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Sunday 2.25pm. AN ill-conditioned Corrie Sanders lost his WBU heavyweight world title in Atlantic City on Saturday night, and with it the possibility of fighting Lennox Lewis in the new year. Sanders paid the price for relying too much on his punching power and having not fought more than two rounds […]
ZIMBABWEAN fast bowler Henry Olonga is set to go to hospital in London on Friday for a scan on his injured ankle, team officials said. Olonga injured himself in the tourists’ final warm-up match against Essex and was ruled out of the first Test match against England, currently in progress at Lord’s. The bowler has […]
CAPE Town’s Nico Malan theatre complex, named after a former administrator of the Cape Province, will be renamed, with the Western Cape provincial cabinet calling for proposals to be made in writing by June 9. The provincial cabinet has issued a set of guidelines for the new name. The name should be easily recognisable, it […]
THE Nigerian Football Association (NFA) has banned three top clubs from playing matches at their home grounds as a result of unruly crowd behavior. Home crowds at the Ilorin stadium, where first division Kwara United and Kwara Stars play their home games, have been banned for a year. Kwara United will now play their home […]
SOFTWARE security firms warned computer users on Friday to guard against a new, more virulent strain of the “Love Bug” virus that swept the world earlier this month. Experts said several thousand computers were already infected by new e-mail virus, dubbed “Herbie: Love Bug II”. It causes more severe damage than the original becauses it […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki is to be awarded an honourary degree in Britain on Friday. Mbeki will be made an honourary Doctor of Laws by Glasgow Caledonian University for his outstanding contribution to democracy. The ceremony will take place at South Africa House in London. The university was the first British institution to award an honourary […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Asmara | Sunday 3.45pm. EFFORTS to bring peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea failed because negotiators focussed solely on the border dispute and ignored Ethiopia’s aim to destroy Eritrea’s government and army, Eritrea charged on Saturday. “The whole peace process is based on the assumption that this is a border war, but Ethiopia’s invasion […]