ALGERIA, Burkina Faso and Congo plan to finalise preparations in Cotonou with matches against leading local clubs Atlantic Sharks, Dragons Oueme and Mogas 90, a Benin football official said.

SOUTH Africa midfielder John ‘Shoes’ Moshoeu told weekend newspapers he is considering retiring after the African Nations Cup. Moshoeu, 33, has won a record 56 caps for Bafana Bafana. PREMIERSHIP RESULTS Sunday. At Free State Stadium: Bloemfontein Celtic 3 (Matsau 19, 55, Lebohang Kukame 46) Wits University 3 (Sammy Magalefa 10, Charles Yohane 35, William […]

FOR the first time in more than a century since British colonial rule and later apartheid abolished the tradition in favour of subservient paramount chiefs, a King of the Xhosa will be installed in the Eastern Cape later this year. The Xhosa Royal Council, an elected body which serves the interests of the paramount chief […]

FRENCH magazine France Football has voted Tunisia number one in its annual poll of national teams. Senegal, Burkina Faso, Gabon, South Africa, Morocco, Zambia, Congo, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Cote d’Ivoire completed the top 10.

UGANDA have been asked to host the East and Central Africa club championship, officials said in Kampala. Original hosts Sudan were ruled out after a state of emergency was introduced and Eritrea said they could not afford to stage a competition won last year by Young Africans of Tanzania.

THE third day of the final Test was washed out. Not a ball has been bowled since play finished early on Friday and there have been only 45 overs in all. Rain has fallen almost incessantly, quagmiring the playing area, and although it stopped long enough for the captains Nasser Hussain and Hansie Cronje to […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Monday 4.00pm. THE leading yachts in the sixth MTN Cape to Rio regatta are expected to reach Rio de Janeiro on Friday, 13 days after leaving Cape Town and more than 24 hours quicker than the 1996 race record. The fleet leaders, which have had strong winds virtually since the […]

NAMIBIAN police blamed Unita fighters on Sunday for the latest attack on the country’s tense border with Angola. Three nurses were among four Namibians killed in a Friday ambush in the northern Caprivi region, close to the spot where a family of French holiday-makers were attacked and three children murdered on January 3. Windhoek said […]

PLAY has been cancelled in the fourth day of the fifth Test between England and South Africa on Monday. “Not coming back for the rest of the day,” said umpire Rudi Koertzen at 1pm, after a pitch inspection. Koetzen and felloew umpire Darrell Hair are concerned that wet patches on the bowlers run up Play […]

THE Democratic Republic of Congo owes the African Football Confederation $16000 in fines and levies, a spokesman for the continental body said. Congolese clubs face exclusion from the 2000 championships unless the arrears are paid this month.