FORMER Bafana Bafana coach Philippe Troussier was on Saturday issued with a verbal warning by the Japan Football Association (JFA) for making critical comments about a tournament sponsor. JFA general secretary Kenji Mori warned the Frenchmen after the coach’s reported remark on the on-going Kirin Cup tournament in Japan. Mori warned Troussier not to make […]

AN alleged lack of transparency in the restructuring of the President’s office on Monday prompted a public service trade union to walk out of talks with government negotiators in Pretoria. National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers general secretary Success Mataitsane threatened to declare a dispute over the matter. He said moves to merge […]

FREEDOM Front leader Constand Viljoen on Friday said he will “go farming” if the Afrikaner people could find no role for him to play following his party’s disappointing showing in Wednesday’s national and provincial elections. He told the media at the election results centre in Pretoria he will consult fellow-Afrikaners on his future, and make […]

NIGERIAN police shot dead three members of a student gang after they broke in and killed the registrar of their university at Abraka, southern Nigeria, police said, cited in local press on Monday. The three were shot and killed at the weekend after breaking into the home of Delta State University registrar, one S Otulu, […]

MPUMALANGA’S chief traffic inspector is back at work after being convicted of drunken driving and escaping from custody last month. Alpheus Mavela Ngwenya was fined only R2000, and KaBokweni Magistrate Ereskia le Grange said the sentence was lenient because he was going to lose his job. Former provincial traffic director Henry Brazier, who received a […]

SOUTH African World Cup coach Bob Woolmer, a front-runner to succeed David Lloyd as England’s coach, all but ruled himself out in London on Wednesday saying he needs a break from the sport. Woolmer, a former English Test batsman who has been coaching South Africa since 1994, was on the England shortlist after Lloyd left […]

ENGLAND’S early exit from the cricket World Cup was due as much to India’s fans as to their own blunders, South African pace bowler Allan Donald said on Wednesday. “It was like Calcutta out there and England couldn’t handle the pressure,” Donald said. England lost to Mohammad Azharuddin’s side by 63 runs after a batting […]

THE South African Police Union in the Western Cape handed 93 spent cartridges to the Independent Complaints Directorate in Cape Town on Thursday, symbolising one for every member killed in South Africa so far this year. Sapu’s national negotiator Andy Miller says union members originally planned to hand their firearms to the ICD, to express […]

DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Monday 5.00pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett on Monday named a side to bring “a style of play that will improve our attacking options without losing defensive options” in his line-up for a two Test series against Italy. His team, which excludes injured stars Joost van der Westhuizen and Henry Honiball but […]

THE Harare police station in Khayelitsha, near Cape Town, was on Sunday evening attacked by armed robbers who stole firearms and ammunition, Western Cape police said. The three armed men tied up the police constable on duty and opened the safe from where they took a shotgun and ten rounds, two 9mm handguns, ammunition and […]