IVORY Coast player Max Brito, paralysed four years ago in the match against Tonga in South Africa and who now lives in south-west France, is to be guest of honour at the World Cup final next month in Cardiff. There had been speculation that Brito, still confined to a wheel chair, had been snubbed by […]

SARAH BULLEN, Cape Town | Thursday 4.55pm THE Johannesburg Stock Exchange again began and ended the day softer on Thursday, yet again taking its cue from United States markets where Wall Street notched up a second day of sharp losses. At close of trade the all share index had dipped 1,07%, lifting before lunch before […]

WITH neither able to take the initiative, Griqualand West and Eastern Province ended the first day of their Supersport Series match at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth on Thursday all square. By close of play, Griquas had reached 282 for seven after a solid 76 from Piet Barnard and a risky 57 from Loots […]

GAUTENG found themselves staring down the barrel of their first defeat of the 1999/200 season after the second day of their four-day Supersport Series match against the Northerns Titans at Centurion Park on Friday. By the close, Gauteng were still 35 runs short of the follow-on target of 247 after the Titans had laid down […]

FIVE of the 13 people arrested in connection with the murder earlier this year of United Democratic Movement national secretary Sifiso Nkabinde appeared in the Pietermaritzburg Regional Court on Thursday. SABC radio news reported Simphiwe Walter Dlamini, Phetheni Mkhize and Bongani Ndlovu, who were charged with defeating or obstructing murder investigations by giving false statements, […]

WHAT few spectators there were at St Georges Park on Friday, will probably prefer a day at home on Saturday. On a day when the bat had it all too easy against the ball, Eastern Province and Griqualand West will either need a minor miracle or a sporting gesture from either captain to eke out […]

NATAL captain Dale Benkenstein, deprived of a frontline spinner, had little choice but to ask Boland to bat after winning the toss on a well-grassed but harmless pitch in Durban on Thursday. Midway through the final session Boland were 186-2, having refused to offer at anything that wasn’t stump or body bound. The home side […]

AT least two people died and 20 people injured when a Metro Rail suburban train hit a stationary goods train on a track between Crown and New Canada stations near Maraisburg, on the West Rand, on Friday afternoon. “The goods train was waiting for the signal to change so that it could proceed, at about […]

Riaan Wolmarans CD of the week It seems the moguls at Virgin Records knew what they were doing when they signed up Michelle Breeze and her cohorts in Fetish. Certainly their EP Shade of a Ghost hinted at bigger things to come, and on October 18, they release their first full-length album under the Virgin […]