THE Department of Sports and Recreation on Thursday announced its director-general, Mthobi Tyamzashe, would be retained in the department as the new adviser to Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour. Balfour said Tyamzashe, who was director-general for five years, would stay on as his advisor until the end of the year. Balfour said Denver Hendrick would replace […]

GOLDEN Lions skipper Hannes Strydom will miss his team’s Currie Cup semi-final match against South Western Districts in Johannesburg on Saturday. The Lions on Thursday named Strydom in their starting line-up, but a hamstring injury suffered a fortnight ago against Boland has ruled the lock forward out for the second game in succession.

THE South African All African Games Team management announced two changes to the 600-strong team on Friday. Both changes are due to injuries, with swimmer, Merlin Fredericks and weightlifter Marna van Schoor dropping out. Fredericks was entered in the 50m freestyle event, while van Schoor was due to take part in the 75kg weightlifting contest.

FORMER Springboks test prop Robbie Kempson has been ruled out of making a surprise appearance for Counties-Manukau in this year’s NPC rugby competition. NPC rules and an injury to Kempson have dashed Counties-Manukau’s hopes of Kempson replacing Lee Lidgard, who suffered a prolapsed disc in his neck during the Ranfurly Shield challenge against Waikato a […]

THE cash-strapped Nigerian government has been forced to trim down on the size of its squad for the All Africa Games in Johannesburg, Sports Minister Damishi Sango said on Thursday. Only 344 athletes and officials from the original 607 will head for South Africa on Monday, for the games which start on September 9. “Financial […]

BRYAN PEARSON, Pretoria | Thursday 6.15pm RENEWED talks on Thursday aimed at resolving a wage dispute between the government and 12 public sector unions failed, a union spokesman said. “Not much happened,” said Boas Mojetsi, vice president of the Police and Prisons Civil Rights Union. “The government negotiators seemed to have come unprepared and had […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 1.00pm. NAMIBIA has named a 30-man squad for its debut at the Rugby World Cup in England in October. Sybrand de Beer is the only new addition to the team announced in August. Former Springbok technical advisor, Rudy Joubert, has been named coach. Namibia is in Pool ‘C’ with […]

LIBERIA’S participation in the upcoming All-African games in Johannesburg remains uncertain due to financial problems, Youth and Sports Minister Francois Massaquoi said on Thursday. “I don’t know yet. We owe (the Supreme Council of Sports) some 190,000 United States dollars, and our participation (in the games) is hanging in the balance,” Massaquoi said. He said […]

News that hackers have steamed open the virtual envelope of e-mail has rocked the online world. Victor Keegan asks if we have any privacy left The revelation that Microsoft’s Hotmail has been hacked into sent reverberations around the entire Internet community. It was seen not only as the biggest security leak in the Internet’s history […]

Thebe Mabanga It’s brash, it’s crude and it is definitely sexist, but young people of Gauteng have voted with their fingers and made Yfm 99.2 their number one source of infotainment. According to the latest Radio Audience Measurement Survey (Rams) released by the South African Advertising Research Foundation, the station has achieved a daily listenership […]