THE Namibian rugby team playing in the Vodacom Cup is no longer to be known as the Kudus, but now be called the Windhoek Lager Welwidschias. A Welwidschias is a native plant of Namibia. The reason for the name change was that there is a club team in Namibia already using the name Kudus.
TUNISIAN giants Esperance struck seven goals past Patriotic Army of Rwanda without reply in the first round of the African Champions League this weekend. The 1999 runners-up took just six minutes to break the deadlock in Tunis through national team midfielder Maher Kanzari and Taoufik Hammami added a second 60 seconds later. Adailton dos Santos […]
GRANT SHIMMIN, Pietersburg | Saturday 5.00pm. MICHAEL Johnson launched his Olympic campaign devastatingly on Saturday by clocking the fourth fastest 200 metres in history — 19.71 seconds — in his first race of the year. With an ideal following wind of 1.8 metres per second, the Texan raced away from a field that included South […]
AUSTRALIAN Garry McCoy withstood a furious final onslaught from Carlos Checa of Spain to register his first 500cc world championship success by winning the South African Grand Prix on Sunday. The Yamaha rider started the season-opener only ninth on the grid but snatched the lead from Checa with five of the 28 laps to go. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port of Spain | Monday 10.00am. WEST Indies faced the prospect of a 10th defeat in 12 tests when they collapsed from 115 for three to 147 for nine in their second innings against Zimbabwe on Sunday. They ended the rain-hit fourth day of the first test just 98 runs ahead. It had […]
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AN administrative clerk with the Department of Justice in Pretoria will attempt to become the first woman in the world to pull a plane of about 33 tons single-handedly at the first attempt. Judy Jacobs, 44, who is 1,66cm tall, weighs only 74kg. She said she hopes to have this feat noted in the Guiness […]
TELEVISION presenter Tracy Going’s former lover, Richard Latham, has to pay her damages R92577 for assaulting her. In a default judgment pursued in the absence of Latham, the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court granted Going the money for the pain she suffered at Latham’s hands. Clinical psychologist Leonard Carr, who evaluated Going, said the extent of the […]
POLICE in the Democratic Republic of Congo briefly detained the Togolese ambassador Mama Gnofang after finding a large stash of Congolese francs in his limousine. Gnofang was stopped on Thursday at Ngobila port on the river Congo as he prepared to cross to Brazzaville in neighbouring Congo, a source at the port said. Security officials […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 4.40pm. Orlando Pirates 1 Bloemfontein Celtic 0 MIDFIELD workaholic Brandon Silent scored his first goal of the season on Saturday to keep Orlando Pirates in the chase for the Castle Premiership title at rain-soaked FNB Stadium. Silent struck after 16 minutes of a close contest, slamming a right-foot shot past […]