OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 3.00pm. CONSORTIUM bidding for the country’s third cellular licence, NextCom, has won its high court application, with costs, to stop the awarding of the licence on Friday. The Pretoria High Court ruled on Wednesday that the South African Telecommunications Regulatory Authority must inform NextCom of its decision. Nextcom will then […]

MALAWI have included four foreign-based players in their 21-man squad for Saturday’s Cosafa Castle Cup first round match against Mozambique in Blantyre. Coach Young Chimodzi has kept the bulk of the players that beat Kenya 2-0 in Malawi’s first-round World Cup qualifier last Saturday. Malawi squad: Goalkeepers: Valence Kamzere (Telecom Wanderers), Swadic Sanudi (Bata Bullets) […]

THE Australian Cricket Board expressed its shock at the sacking of Proteas skipper Hansie Cronje. “We have certainly heard the news and like everyone else we’re shocked,” ACB public affairs general manager Brendan McClements said. “It poses no threat to the (Australian one-day) series in South Africa. “And we’re confident the ICC and the United […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Tuesday 5.30pm. ORGANISATION of African Unity Secretary General Salim Ahmed Salim, has appealed to world football’s governing body, Fifa, to let Africa host the 2006 World Cup. “The case for Africa is overwhelming,” Salim told a meeting of African ambassadors in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Monday night. […]

HANSIE Cronje’s sacking on the eve the first one-day game against Australia has ruined the three-match series before it has even started, the Australian team’s manager said on Tuesday. Steve Bernard said that Cronje’s sacking and the ongoing matchfixing enquiries have effectively reduced the three-match series to a sideshow. Bernard said: “People aren’t talking about […]

THE Gauteng Falcons and EP Elephants have announced their sides for this weekend’s Vodacom Cup quarter-final match at the Bosman Stadium in Brakpan on Saturday. Falcons coach Phil Pretorius has chosen to field a full-strength team for the clash, and his team are favourites to clinch the match and go on to the semi-finals where […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Wednesday 4.30pm. THE JSE lost early gains ending 1,06% or 81 points lower on Wednesday, pulled down by “old economy” stocks. Gold shares suffered the biggest setback, plummeting 3,29% or 34 points on the day. On international markets bullion lost $2,50 and by late afternoon was trading at $280 to the […]

AN Indian bookmaker named in connection with international cricket match-fixing allegations denied wrongdoing on Wednesday and said he had not even met disgraced former South African captain Hansie Cronje. Sanjeev Chawla, 32, who is based in London, issued a statement through his lawyer, Neil O’May, after he was named in several media reports. “Mr Chawla […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Tuesday 4.30pm. THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange slumped in subdued selling on Tuesday, in the wake of a battered Nasdaq overnight. Information technology, telecom and media stocks were the hardest hit. The overall ended 1,87% or 146 points down. Industrials suffered the biggest losses, finishing 2,95% or or 267 points in the […]

JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna has been elected president of the United Nations 10th Congress on Crime and Justice. Speaking in Vienna, he said countries needed to strengthen efforts to combat crime. Crime was bemong increasingly technologically advanced, transcending international boundaries, he told delegates, and the fight against criminals therefore necessitated international co-operation and co-ordinated strategies. […]