WORLD Cup favourites New Zealand pulverised Italy 101-3, the highest score of the 1999 tournament, on Thursday after record-breaking performances by fullback Jeff Wilson and winger Jonah Lomu. Wilson broke the All Blacks’ career try record, held by former winger John Kirwan, with his second try of three in the group B game. Wilson now […]

SOUTH Africa have lost another star player ahead of their Group A match against Uruguay at Hampden Park. Full-back Breyton Paulse, who was on the substitutes bench, was diagnosed with ‘flu on Friday morning. His place on the bench will be taken by wing Stefan Terblanche.

SAMOAN centre To’o Vaega, the man whose controversial try broke Welsh hearts in 1991, was so overwhelmed by his team’s victory that he named his son Cardiff. Vaega, now 34 and one of four survivors from the 1991 team playing for Samoa against Wales on Thursday, scored the first try in his country’s shock 16-13 […]

THE newly-updated 1999 edition of the SA Rugby Annual – the “bible’ of the game in South Africa – is now available. The redesigned and revamped SA Rugby Annual 1999 fills the void left by the disappearance after 1997 of the Bankfin Annual, edited for 26 years by Beeld journalist Quintus van Rooyen until his […]

A GERMAN–Egyptian archaeological team has discovered an immense stone building that once served as the stables of pharaoh Ramses II, Egypt’s antiquities council announced on Thursday. The stables, which could shelter up to 400 horses, cover around two hectares and are sub-divided into several rectangular areas, each with its own gate, antiquities chief Gaballah Ali […]

THE National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa warned on Thursday that it will embark on a programme of “rolling mass action” to protest ongoing job losses in the metal industry that could see 6 000 workers retrenched this month. Numsa president Mthuthuzeli Tom said that 11 industries, including Denel, the Steel Engineering Industry Federation […]

ROSS Veenstra struck twice in the first three overs of the day’s play to seemingly put Natal on the road to dominance. But mediocre support bowling and a defiant 71 not out from Praveen Amre helped Boland muster 91 runs for their last three wickets. Then Mark Bruyns and Doug Watson took off at the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bloemfontein | Friday 11.45am. VICTOR Mpitsang’s figures of 3-49 off 22 overs may not be spectacular, but hidden in them is the fact that Gary Kirsten and Jacques Kallis were among his victims. Kirsten was caught behind for 17 – a solid enough piece of bowling but nothing memorable. Not so Kallis’ dismissal, […]

IN his first season after leaving the Wanderers, 23-year-old Neil McKenzie scored a career best 166 not out (321 balls, 19×4, 3×6) as the Northerns Titans had McKenzie’s old team on the rack after the first day of their four day Supersport Series match at Centurion Park on Thursday. Together with Gerald Dros (94), McKenzie […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will on Monday deliver a eulogy for former Tanzanian president Julius Nyerere at a memorial service in Pretoria’s Catholic Cathedral, the president’s office said. He and a high-powered South African delegation would also attend Nyerere’s state funeral in Tanzania’s national stadium in Dar-Es-Salaam on Thursday, presidential aide Parks Mankahlana said. Mankahlana was […]