SOUTH African boxing chief Soon Pretorious is confident the team, named on Thursday, will do well in the All-Africa Games in Johannesburg from September 10-19. The SA National Amateur Boxing Organisation (Sanabo) president said the team is relatively young, but Sanabo are in a building phase for the Commonwealth and Olympic Games. “All-Africa Games is […]

THE regional finals of the Spar Women’s Doubles, which draws 8000 players and rates as the biggest tennis tournament in the world, get underway on Saturday. More than 700 clubs countrywide take part and the finals for Gauteng Central take place at Ellis Park. Regional champions will emerge by October to contest the national finals […]

AUSTRALIAN “spin doctor” Terry Jenner will be flying out in September to help prepare South Africa for next summer’s five-Test cricket series against England. Recognised as the man behind the “golden arm” — he has been the guiding force throughout Shane Warne’s career — Jenner’s main task will be to tutor youngsters throughout the country […]

SEVERAL Springbok players have been given clearance to play for their Provinces on this weekend, 23-25 July. They are: Willie Meyer – Lions, Charl Marais – WP, Pieter Rossouw – WP, Breyton Paulse – WP, Anton Leonard – SWD, Albert van den Berg – Griquas, David von Hoeslin – Griquas, Gaffie du Toit – Griquas, […]

NATALIE GRAINGER, the country’s top-ranked world women’s squash player at number five, is lost to South Africa. She has been offered substantial remuneration and perks to play for England. Grainger will be eligible for England in two years’ time, but she can represent them at this year’s European Championships. For the past two years, she […]

THURSDAY, 12.00NOON: THE line-up for this year’s MTN Champions tournament has been announced, along with a venue change for the event, which will be held in the 2500-seat University of Pretoria indoor arena. The organisers have chosen an “elite eight”, four fewer than the 12 participants of previous years, but the names are formidable. Swedes […]

THE Khartoum government has decided not to extend a year-long ceasefire with rebels limited to southwest Sudan’s Bahr al-Ghazal province, Foreign Minister Mustafa Osman Ismail said on Friday. At a press conference following talks in Kenya between Khartoum and the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Army, Ismail said the government instead wanted a “comprehensive and general” […]

OLYMPIC 10000m silver medallist Paul Tergat of Kenya on Wednesday said he would attempt to break the world record over the distance in Stockholm on July 30. Tergat, speaking before his 3000m race at the Charlety Stadium in Paris on Wednesday night, said Stockholm would see his only 10000m before the world championships in Seville, […]

AFTER the cheating revelations surrounding this year’s Comrades Marathon, the revised list of winners is: 1 Jaroslaw Janicki, 2 Andrew Kehele, 3 Lucas Matlala, 4 Alexei Volgin, 5 Anatoliy Korenpanov, 6 Walter Nkosi, 7 Joseph Ikaneng, 8 Konstantin Santalov, 9 Shaun Meiklejohn, 10 Grigoriy Murzin

MICHAEL METELITS, Johannesburg | Friday 5.30pm. A WEEK of turmoil in South African soccer has closed with the appointment of Paul Dolezar, former Kaizer Chiefs coach, to replace Ted Dumitru at Mamelodi Sundowns. Sundowns announced the appointment in Johannesburg on Friday. Dolezar was in a long-running waiting game with Chiefs’ management, and a two-year contract […]