SOUTH Africa hauled back a feisty Irish team and overtook them 27-20 in the dying minutes to snatch third place in the World Rugby Junior Championships in Wales on Sunday. Ireland led with three penalites by centre Jeremy Staunton, before South Africa got on the score sheet with a goal from full back Conrad Jantjes. […]
IT took Wayne Ferreira two hours and 46 minutes of intense tennis to give South Africa its first Davis Cup win in two years on Sunday. The world number 30 came back from two sets to one down to quell Belorussian Vladimir Voltchkov 6-0, 4-6, 3-6, 6-2, 6-4 in their Euro-Africa Zone Group I tie […]
POLAND won their first water polo test 4-1 in a series of three against South Africa at the King’s Park Pool in Durban on Sunday.The visitors, who are in the top half of the European Pool B, dominated most of the exchanges giving the relatively experienced South African side few openings in offence. South Africa […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela announced on Monday he had been asked by Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic to intervene in the crisis in Yugoslavia, but that he had declined. “I am not keen to intervene in another issue,” Mandela told reporters in Pretoria. “It engages your full time and attention, and the problems in South Africa are […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pretoria | Tuesday 11.30am THE Easter weekend road death toll had reached 184 in 106 motor accidents by Monday night, the Arrive Alive campaign said on Tuesday. The Arrive Alive figures, which will be finalised on Wednesday, show that the dead comprised 101 passengers, 49 pedestrians and 34 drivers. The highest toll was […]
GERMAN striker Enrico Kern was the star of the first full day of the World Youth Championship played in Nigeria on Sunday, scoring a hat-trick as his side hammered Paraguay 4-0 in their Group A match. Ireland, playing in Group C in Ibadan, saw their luck desert them as they lost to Mexico, the match […]
PREVIOUSLY disadvantaged farmers are to receive special low-cost mortgage bond rates to help them start and maintain their farms, the Land Bank announced on Tuesday. Land Bank general manager of operations Totsie Memela said in a statement that the special interest rate will considerably reduce the interest charges emerging farmers would have to pay on […]
JUDGE WILLIAM Heath has confirmed that he will meet Finance Minister Trevor Manuel to clear up a dispute over money his anti-corruption unit has recovered. Manuel began a row with Heath a month ago when he told Parliament that he had no record of the huge sums Heath claimed to have recovered, and accused the […]
THE famed Dakar rally will bypass Europe in 2000, beginning in Senegal and ending in Egypt, the event’s organisers announced on Tuesday. For the first time in the race’s history it will be an all-African affair. The race is scheduled to begin on January 6 in Dakar and to end in Cairo on January 23. […]
ALL Black training squad members Daryl Gibson and Norm Maxwell have lost a race against time to be fit for Friday’s Super 12 rugby showdown between the Canterbury Crusaders and the Otago Highlanders. Crusaders coach Wayne Smith conceded on Tuesday that midfielder Gibson and lock Maxwell will miss the South Island derby in Dunedin. “We’re […]