KENYAN athletics officials said on Monday that they will ask the International Amateur Athletics Federation to grant cross country title holders automatic qualification to the next championships. Kenya Amateur Ahletic Association (KAAA) secretary David Okeyo told reporters at the weekend that five-time world champion, Paul Tergat, has been granted automatic qualification to run in the […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki and other top African National Congress leaders touring Mpumalanga are appalled at the violent and “slave-like” treatment of farm labourers in the region, ANC spokesman Smut Ngonyama said on Monday. The ANC national working committee will, Ngonyama told journalists in Nelspruit, urgently debate possible solutions to the abuse and will request its […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pointe-A-Pierre | Monday 1.05pm. TWO wickets in the final half-hour to leg-spin bowler Brian Murphy help put Zimbabwe in a strong position against the West Indies Cricket Board Presidents XI on the third day of their four-day match at Guaracara Park on Sunday. Behind on first innings by 45 runs, the Presidents XI […]

FORMER New Zealand coach Laurie Mains has added his weight to calls for a fourth Australian team to be included in the Super 12 series. Mains, in Sydney as coach of the Cats ahead of Saturday’s match with New South Wales, told reporters on Thursday he thinks Australia deserve to have an extra team after […]

A BROKEN finger has forced winger Jonah Lomu out of the Wellington Hurricanes Super 12 side to play the Otago Highlanders on Saturday. Lomu’s left hand is in a plaster cast after he broke the finger during the Hurricanes’ win over the Queensland Reds last weekend. He will be replaced by Sevens speedster Brad Fleming. […]

FORMER Iron Man Morne Bester rode to a hair’s breadth of a victory in the 109km Argus Pick ‘n Pay Cycle Tour on Sunday. Bester was German rider Alexander Kastenhuber rode neck on neck over the gruelling Ou Kaapseweg hill climb and Blue Route highway on the return to Cape Town, before Bester inched ahead […]

CARLOS Alhinho will succeed Brazilian Djalma Cavalcante as coach of Angola, the Angolan national football association said. Alhinho steered the Black Panthers to their first African Nations Cup appearance four years ago, only to be fired when the team finished last behind South Africa, Egypt and Cameroon in Group A. Despite leading a national team […]

AMAZULU gave themselves an extra life in the battle against relegation from the PSL when they deadlocked 0-0 with Jomo Cosmos at Vosloorus on Sunday. Cosmos earned their first log-point under coach Eddie Lewis, holding on grimly for the full 90 minutes before the end came and they could go back to Durban with a […]

DURBAN-based black empowerment company South African Shipbuilding (SAFBuild) has completed the first of a two harbour tug construction contract for Portnet worth R104-million. Business Report indicates that SAFBuild is the only shipbuilding company in Durban and the only major firm specialising in that type of work in South Africa. Peter Meredith, the senior marine engineer […]

BRITAIN will not take action against Zimbabwe for contravening a section of the Vienna Convention after officials opened a diplomatic consignment bag. A British foreign office spokesman in London said the opening of the diplomatic bag at gun point was quite an unprecedented act which had never happened anywhere in the world. “We, as the […]