SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Friday 6.00pm BUSINESS has given President Thabo Mbeki’s State of the Nation address the thumbs up in what it has digested as a market friendly statement — but one that lacked in depth and detail what it made up in for with good cheer. “As expected and in true political […]

MOROCCAN minister for youth and sport, Ahmad Mussawi, held talks with Saudi officials in Riyadh on Sunday in connection with his country’s bid for the 2006 World Cup. Mussawi, touring the Gulf Arab states to seek backing for the bid, met Crown Prince Abdullah bin Abdel Aziz and the head of the kingdom’s sports and […]

FIRES in the Noordhoek region near Cape Town have been rekindled by strong winds and three Air Force helicopters have been called in to control the fires. Western Cape joint forces spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Piet Paxton said helicopters took to the air shortly after 5pm to investigate the fire, which was raging in the mountains […]

SEVERAL organisations including the ANC Women’s League and Women Against Child Abuse will demonstrate against domestic violence outside the Johannesburg magistrates court at 8.30am. on Monday. The demonstration is being planned to coincide with the start of judgement in the domestic violence trial of television personality Tracey Going and film-maker Richard Latham. The trial has […]

SHARKS coach Hugh Reece-Edwards says eighthman AJ Venter will remain with the squad unless ordered otherwise by a court. Venter missed his team’s 51-0 victory over Border in a pre-season friendly in East London on Saturday. The mercurial eighthman is embroiled in a contractual dispute with the Golden Lions, and Venter has been barred from […]

THE South African cricket squad to tour India will be announced on Monday morning. ZA*SPORTS is putting it’s neck on a block by naming the most likely 15-man cricket squad for South Africa’s two Test, five one day international tour to India. The ZA*SPORTS squad is: Boeta Dippenaar, Herschelle Gibbs, Louis Koen, Jacques Kallis, Dale […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 12.30pm. ZIMBABWE’S tennis players are turning John McEnroe’s first Davis Cup as captain of the United States team is turning into a nightmare. The Zimbabwean doubles team of Wayne Black and Kevin Ullyett on Saturday beat the makeshift U.S. tandem of Rich Leach and Alex O’Brien, 7-6 (7-4), 5-7, 0-6, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Sunday 1.35am. SOUTH Africa have posted 204/7 in thei alotted 50 overs in a triangular-series match against Zimbabwe at Port Elizabeth, with Jacques Kallis again saving the innings with a splendid knock of 98. The South African innings was again comprised of mediocre knocks and soft dismissals, especially those of […]

TURKISH police have arrested a young Nigerian footballer because of his failure to notify authorities on entering the country that he is a carrier of the AIDS virus. Francis Okwudili Aneke, 19, who was arrested in an Istanbul hotel, also loses his place in the line-up of Turkish first division side Istanbulspor, the club said. […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Harare | Sunday 3.30pm. WORLD number one Andre Agassi pulled the United States back into the World Group Davis Cup first round clash in Harare on Sunday when he beat Zimbabwean Byron Black 6-2, 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) to level the tie at 2-2. All now depends on the outcome of Sunday’s second reverse […]