SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett will announce plans for the Springbok team on Saturday. Mallett will discuss the full schedule for the team including assembly dates, Tri-Nations preparations and the camp for the Rugby World Cup, a statement said on Tuesday. He will also announce details of squad announcements and training schedules.
THE Namibian government announced this week that unemployment had now grown to 35% of the country’s labour force, with women making up the majority of those without jobs. A spokesman for the Ministry of Youth and Sport said on Tuesday that the “strict, nationwide” unemployment figure stands at around 21%. But he said that the […]
ERNIE Els came in at fourth in teh world golf rankings on Monday adn Zimbabwe’s Nick Price made it into the top ten. David Duval took top honours, followed by Tiger Woods and Davis Love III. After Els came Vijay Singh in fifth, Lee Westwood, Mark O’Meara, Colin Montgomerie, Jim Furyk and then Price. Duval […]
SUDAN’S meningitis death toll, which stood at 1250 persons last week, has now jumped to 1400, prompting the ministry of health to request the continued closure of schools in the country. The move is aimed at preventing further infections amid rising temperatures that have shot up to between 45-47 in most parts of the country. […]
HURRICANES No 8 Filo Tiatia says his form “hasn’t been too bad, and hasn’t been too good”. That could also sum up the uneven form of the Hurricanes going into their last match of the 1999 Super 12, against the desperate-to-win Highlanders at Athletic Park on Saturday. Tiatia, hopeful of a World Cup squad spot […]
A EGYPTIAN digging a hole in his yard has unearthed a section of a 2000-year-old Roman tunnel on the western banks of the Nile River, the Supreme Council of Antiquities said on Wednesday. An SCA team rushed to the area of Giza in southern Cairo found that the tunnel runs 17m under buildings and a […]
WORLD Cup minnows Kenya saw their tournament warm-up match against Glamorgan washed out by rain in Cardiff on Tuesday. It was the Kenyans’ last chance of meaningful practice before the tournament starts on Friday. Kenya’s first game in the event is against group B rivals Zimbabwe on Saturday.
NAMIBIAN national soccer team manager Bernard ‘Noree’ Kaanjuka announced an unchanged team for the all-important Cosafa Castle Cup qualifier against Malawi in Blantyre on May 22. Kaanjuka added that the 18-man squad – which drew 0-0 in their Africa Nations Cup match against against Mali in Windhoek on Saturday – will be boosted by the […]
TERMS of reference for the SABC’s investigative committee were laid out on Wednesday. The five-member comittee was set up to investigate allegations of interference with editorial independence, and will look at management practices regarding the free flow of ideas at the SABC. SABC spokeswoman Thaninga Shope said in a statement that the committee will consist […]
CLARE LOVELL, Hove | Thursday 12.30pm. SOUTH Africa have an enviable one-day record coming into the World Cup but the pressure will be on Hansie Cronje’s side when they play India in their group A opener on Saturday. Boasting the all-round skills of Jacques Kallis, Shaun Pollock and Lance Kluesner, the acrobatic fielding of Jonty […]