THE Ghanaian under-23 team were knocked out of the 12-nation Bangabandhu Cup football tournament, losing 3-2 to Japan’s junior league selection team in the final in Dhaka Tuesday. Japan led the first-half assault with two goals by Koji Kotaoka in the 33rd and 45th minutes. Ghana’s Abdul Razak led a fierce second half counter beating […]

FIVE people have reportedly died from haemorrhagic fever, rumoured to be the deadly Marburg virus, in the Democratic Republic of Congo in August. British Airways Travel Clinics medical director, Dr Andrew Jamieson said the re-emergence of haemorrhagic fevers such as Marburg and ebola in the DRC does not come as a surprise. One man died […]

ROB DAVIES, Johannesburg | Saturday 5.00pm. THE Golden Lions under coach Laurie Mains were unstoppable in their 81-21 thrashing of the South Western Districts Eagles in a Bankfin Currie Cup semi-final at Ellis Park on Saturday. The Lions showed the visitors no mercy and piled on 46 points in the first half, to which the […]

PARLIAMENT last week approved legislation which will allow the country’s equities, bond and futures exchanges to merge. The National Assembly unanimously approved the Financial Markets Control Amendment Bill, which must now go before the National Council of Provinces for concurrence before it can be signed into law by President Thabo Mbeki. The Johannesburg Stock Exchange […]

PENNY Heyns continued with her record breaking run on Sunday when she smashed Australian Samantha Riley’s four-year-old record at Ellis Park during the final day of the Telkom SA Short Course Championship. Heyns beat Riley’s record by 0,13 seconds.

POLITICAL parties were on Monday asked to consider changes to the Powers and Privileges of Parliament Act, the legislation that gives them special protection from defamation claims and arrest. The joint subcommittee on powers and privileges has been meeting in the wake of last month’s appeal court ruling in favour of Pan Africanist Congress MP […]

KWARA United of Nigeria beat Zamalek of Egypt 2-1 in the first leg of the CAF Cup quarter-finals Saturday. Peter Tonye scored for Kwara in the 31st minute only for Rady Ahmad to equalise ten minutes later. Seyi Olafin scored the winner for Kwara in the 75th minute.

FORMER national cricketer and convicted rapist Makhaya Ntini has been included in the Border line-up for their three-day cricket friendly against Eastern Province this weekend. Ntini was sentenced in May to six years’ imprisonment for raping a 21-year-old woman at the Buffalo Park cricket ground. He is out on bail pending his appeal against his […]