MAIZE soared in Monday trade as continuing widespread dry hot weather fed market fears of a reduced and damaged crop, traders and producers said. White and yellow maize futures contracts added about 20 rand a ton as the key maize growing areas dried out, in some cases with irreversible damage, while rains were not widespread. […]

ZIMBABWE’S tobacco output for the current season will remain above 180-million kg despite heavy rains in key growing districts, the Zimbabwe Tobacco Association said on Tuesday. With about one-third of the crop harvested, the ZTA estimated production at 182,41-million kg. At the start of the harvest in January it forecast 185-million kg. Last year’s output […]

LEICESTER and England star Austin Healey was on Monday banned for 21 days by his club for stamping on former KwaZulu-Natal scrumhalf Kevin Putt in a weekend club match in Britain. Television cameras caught Healey stamping on Putt’s face, who plays for London Irish. The South African needed six stitches to a cut above his […]

ENGLAND A earned victory by one wicket in the first of three one-day internationals against Zimbabwe A in Bulawayo on Tuesday with just three balls to spare. The home side reached 262 all out in 49,4 overs and England A scrambled to the required target at 263 to win in 49,3 overs with the last […]

KING LEKA I, the flamboyant exiled pretender to the Albanian throne, was granted R15000 bail on Monday after being arrested on arms charges. Leka was arrested with three other men at his Johannesburg home on February 5 after police found a large quantity of firearms, ammunition, anti-personnel mines and rocket launchers. Transferred from his jail […]

SUPER 12 rugby’s governing body Sanzar has rejected bids from Australia and South Africa to expand the competition. Sanzar and New Zealand Rugby Football Union chairman Rob Fisher said no expansion is likely for at least three years. New Zealand has five teams, South Africa four and Australia three in the competition which leads up […]

HARD labour in prisons should be reintroduced, Federal Alliance leader Louis Luyt said in Pretoria on Tuesday. He told a public meeting at University of Pretoria that prisoners forfeited all rights they might have when they committed crimes against society. “Convicts should be used to build houses, hospitals and schools. We will force them to […]

THE South African Football Association has complained to world governing body Fifa about midfielder Delron Buckley’s German club Bochum and its reluctance to release him from the team. Safa chief executive Raymond Hack has written to Fifa about Buckley, who has not yet arrived in South Africa for training Bafana Bafana’s Cosafa Cup clash against […]

TWO staff were taken hostage in the Kenyan embassy in Bonn on Tuesday, where Kurdish protestors stormed the building in a show of support for Kurdish rebel leader Abdullah Ocalan. Kurdish protestors also stormed Greek embassies across Europe from London to Moscow on Tuesday.The Kurds targetted the Kenyan embassy in Germany after Greece admitted on […]