LANCE Klusener retains his number two position on the one day ratings behind Australia’s Michael Bevan, as audited by PriceWaterhouseCoopers. Jacques Kallis moves up a spot to fifth, in the top ten dominated by Australia. Hansie Cronje moves up a place to 18th, but Herschelle Gibbs has dropped four to 19. Shaun Pollock dropped to […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki held hour-long talks with visiting Burundi President Pierre Buyoya in Cape Town on Tuesday. The talks were a follow-up to a meeting between Nelson Mandela and Buyoya on Monday during which the two leaders discussed efforts to bring peace to the tiny African state, embroiled in a civil war since 1993 in […]

MOROCCO, in a move to reaffirm its bid to stage the 2006 World Cup, said on Monday it has no plans to withdraw from the competition to host the finals, an official statement said. “Morocco will pursue its campaign to host the World Cup finals in 2006 with self-confidence and calmly,” said the statement. It […]

THE Confederation of African Football has halved the $10000 fine imposed on African Nations Cup co-hosts Nigeria on Tuesday after unruly behaviour by their fans in Lagos, a senior official said on Wednesday. No reasons were given for the reduction announced by CAF in Lagos following a second incident at the national stadium, which witnessed […]

THE captain of the Cats Super 12 team, Rassie Erasmus, has been ruled out of the first two months of the competition because of a pelvic muscle injury. The Springbok loose forward underwent an operation on Wednesday after other remedies, including ballet classes, failed to rectify the problem. Andre Vos takes over the captaincy until […]

MORE than 400 lecturers and researchers at Zambia’s largest state-run university have gone on an indefinite strike in protest against the non-payment of their January salaries, a senior union official said on Thursday. University of Zambia lecturers and researchers union vice-president Douglas Syakalima, said, that academic staff at the institution decided to strike late on […]

AMPLATS announced on Tuesday that it has resolved a wage dispute at its Rustenburg Base Metals Refiners with the National Union of Mineworkers but that the dispute with the National Union of Metalworkers (Numsa) continues. The company and NUM agreed on Monday afternoon to an 8% wage increase, backdated to January 1, Amplats senior manager […]

SOME 60 National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa members downed tools at Amplats’ Rustenburg base metal refinery on Thursday, mine spokesman Johan Adler said. The strike follows a deadlock in salary negotiations between mine management and the 291 Numsa members at the refinery. Adler said the mine offered an 8% increase but Numsa demanded […]

TWO South African riders are set to become familiar faces on the World Superbike Championship stage this year. The opening round of the series will be run at Kyalami on April 2, after the scheduled opener was postponed. Cape rider Lance Isaacs, who will be in his second season in the WSBK ranks with the […]