FRIDAY, 4.00PM: PUBLIC Services International, a global federation of trade unions that represents 20 million public service workers, including those belonging to the South Africans Municipal Workers’ Union, has condemned the multinational water company Biwater for trying to silence debate about water privatisation in South Africa. Biwater is bidding for contracts for water services in […]
ENGLAND survived a bout with the weather to beat Kenya by nine wickets, with only captain Alec Stewart falling to the weak Kenyan bowling attack. After an interruption for rain, the Kenyans might have had some salvation in the Duckworth-Lewis rule, but the match was seen through, and England hit and bowled superbly, finishing at […]
GRAEME Hick, 134 not out, will face his sternest World Cup test to date when facing South Africa at the Oval on Saturday. England’s number three, desperate to establish himself as an automatic selection after a see-saw career, has yet to be dismissed in the tournament after making 73 against Sri Lanka and 61 against […]
SOUTH African cricket took a significant step forward on Tuesday with the appointment of the first black groundsman at a Test venue. Wilson Ngobese succeeds Phil Russell as groundsman at Kingsmead in Durban, the KwaZulu-Natal Cricket Union said. Russell becomes Natal’s new director of cricket. Ngobese joined the Kingsmead ground staff as a 15-year-old in […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Saturday 7.15pm. *7.15pm Shaun Pollock put the game away by making Angus Fraser pop up to Gary Kirsten. The last wicket gave SA the match by 122 runs, although the game looked shaky after the Proteas’ innings. Disciplined bowling and excellent fielding kept England from capitalising on a low 226 target, […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The draw for the 1999 African Champions League club competition was particularly kind to Sundowns as they dodged potentially awkward opponents from Angola, Zambia and Zimbabwe in the preliminary rounds. They duly disposed of enthusiastic but limited Telecom Wanderers of Malawi in the first round, with burly Nigerian striker Raphael Chukwu scoring […]
Don’t let the nickname deceive you. Jacques Kallis might just be the world’s best all- rounder, writes Kevin Mitchell Some say he is the finest all-rounder in the world. His team-mates call him Dozy. Meanwhile, Jacques Kallis gets on with a career that has gone through good and bad times in four short seasons and […]
LESS than a week before a ceasefire is to begin in Sierra Leone, rebels launched two attacks near the eastern city of Kenema, the pro-government Ecomog intervention force said on Thursday. Ecomog spokesman Lieutenant-Colonel Chris Olukolade said the first attack occurred on Wednesday at Mano Junction, just north of Kenema, 240km east of the capital, […]
THE Angolan state oil company, Sonangol, has signed a $575-million loan agreement with Union Bank of Switzerland, state television said in a broadcast monitored by the BBC. It said the four-year loan to Sonangol, backed by an oil sale contract between the Angolan oil company and British Petroleum, was signed in London on Tuesday.
Matthew Krouse Down the tube Election time is bringing out the best of what local television producers have to offer, allowing for some boundary-breaking exercises. Suddenly there’s a dearth of new programmes to watch, not all of them studio interrogations of the parties that will ultimately represent folks who decide to make their mark on […]