TOUTS have bought up almost all the tickets for Sunday’s Egypt-Zambia African Nations Cup match, selling them at up to three times the face value, angry match organisers said on Monday. The touts pushed up prices from 200 to 600 naira ($2 – $6), pushing them out of the range of many ordinary Nigerian fans, […]

HIJACKERS shot a man in the head and pistol-whipped his female companion before throwing the couple down a slope on Tafelberg Road in Cape Town, a few metres from the Table Mountain cableway station in the early hours of Sunday. Police said the couple Maria Beukes, 37, and her companion known only as Johnny had […]

SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi, Gabon | Monday 10.00am. South Africa 3 (Bartlett 54, 77, Ngobe 42) Gabon 1 (Nzigou 20) THE African Nations Cup is a marathon, not a sprint, and Bafana Bafana did enough in central Ghana on Sunday night to suggest they can make a serious challenge for a trophy held by Egypt. Teams […]

AJ VENTER is likely to battle out his season in court before he can do so on the rugby pitch. Golden Lions CEO Johan Prinsloo said on Thursday that the dispute involving Venter’s choice of province this season will probably end in court. Venter wants to move from the Golden Lions to the Natal Sharks, […]

ZAMBIAN coach Ben Benfuchile Monday blamed a ‘jinx’ referee for his team’s 2-0 defeat by holders Egypt in the opening round of the African Nations Cup in Lagos. “We did not lose to a superior side. We lost the match to the referee who is proving to be a jinx each time he officiates one […]

AMERICAN maxi Zephyrus IV smashed the record for the Cape to Rio transatlantic race by almost two days when it crossed the finish line at Rio de Janeiro on Friday, the organisers said. The 75-foot Californian yacht crossed the finish line off Copacabana Beach at 3:49am. She improved the 1996 record of 14 days 15 […]

VETERAN Western Province coach and administrator Norman Mbiko has been appointed coach of the South African National Sevens team. Mbiko, who was named as coach on Thursday, will be in charge of the team until the conclusion of the current IRB World Sevens Series, ending in France in May. Mbiko takes over from Deon Oosthuizen […]

THE Mauritian government has launched a bid to attract investments from multinationals into the country. The package of incentives include a 10-year tax holiday for investors after which the investor would only pay 15 percent annual tax on his outlay. Dividends, acquisition of equipment and vehicles are among the items which will be exempted from […]

WORLD heavyweight champ Lennox Lewis is looking to South African boxers Corrie Sanders and Francois Botha to defend his title against — should he beat American Michael Grant in New York in APril. Lewis’ business manger Panos Eliades said he might also fight New Zealander David Tau.

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 9.15am. TWENTY-SIX people were killed and 52 injured when a another bus left the road and overturned between Queenstown and Cofimvaba in the Eastern Cape on Sunday night. The accident happened around 6pm, about 25km from Queenstown, after a white VW Golf apparently tried to overtake the bus in wet […]