AUSTRALIAN and Irish officials on Tuesday night slammed decisions made by a World Cup disciplinary panel that decided to ban Aussie number eight Toutai Kefu and Irish lock Trevor Brennan. Kefu was earlier Tuesday suspended for two weeks – putting him out of Australia’s quarter-final on October 23 – while Brennan will be ruled out […]

MARCUS PRIOR, Glasgow | Wednesday 10.20am. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett got back to basics on Tuesday when he named his strongest and most experienced team to take on Uruguay in Glasgow on Friday. There are two changes to the side that beat Scotland in the Group A opener – Henry Honiball comes in at fly-half […]

MARCUS PRIOR, Glasgow | Wednesday 10.20am. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett got back to basics on Tuesday when he named his strongest and most experienced team to take on Uruguay in Glasgow on Friday. There are two changes to the side that beat Scotland in the Group A opener – Henry Honiball comes in at fly-half […]

A BRILLIANT second-half kicking performance by Gonzalo Quesada saw Argentina overcome a 13-point deficit for a crucial 32-16 win over Samoa in a rain-swept Group D match at Llanelli on Sunday. The 25-year-old fly-half struck seven penalties and a drop goal to add to a first half penalty as the Pumas came from 16-3 down […]

NAMIBIAN President Sam Nujoma has announced that general and presidential elections will take place on 30 November and 1 December, media reports said on Monday. Nujoma announced the dates in a proclamation issued late on Friday. Namibian officials were quoted as saying that polling for the general and presidential elections were take place at the […]

EGYPT on Tuesday heaped praises on the Egyptian-American winner of the 1999 Nobel Prize for Chemistry, Ahmed Zewail. “I’m proud that a son of Egypt has received a Nobel prize. It is an honor for Egypt and all Egyptians,” Higher Education Minister and Minister of State for Scientific Research Mufid Shehab said. The Arab League […]

A MOZAMBIQUAN Supreme Court has rejected two presidential candidates for alleged failure to present all the necessary documentation. The two are Wehia Ripua, leader of the Mozambican Opposition Union, and Joaquim Nyota of the recently established Democratic and Liberal Party of Mozambique. Ripua claims that he had presented all the necessary papers and that the […]

THE government should decide this month on its preferred bidders for the sale of its state-owned forestry company and other assets, an official said on Tuesday. “We are hopeful that by the end of October some decisions will have been made on the bidding process,” Lael Bethlehem, chief director of forestry, told parliament’s water and […]

ED STODDARD, Pretoria | Wednesday 6.45pm ANGOLA’S Unita rebels are believed to be bartering South American cocaine for weapons and stolen vehicles from South Africa for use in their war with the government, a senior United Nations official said on Wednesday. ”We have reason to believe that cocaine from producer nations like Colombia is being […]

PATRICK VIGNAL, Edinburgh | Monday 11.35am. SHRUGGING off brave challenges from the minnows of world rugby is not proving much fun for the Springboks, who are trying to keep their focus on more demanding battles ahead in the defence of their World Cup crown. After his second-string side defeated Spain 47-3 in an uninspiring performance […]