ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Bloemfontein | Sunday 6.30pm. Bloemfontein Celtic … (0) 2 (Kukame 83, Gulwa 87) Classic …………… (1) 2 (Mackett 26, Mabotja 47) CASTLE Premiership fairytale club Classic lost a two-goal lead on Sunday at the Free State Stadium as they spurned an opportunity to rise above Orlando Pirates into third place on the 18-team […]

THE December death toll on South African roads has risen to 137 in 94 accidents. According to the government’s road safety monitoring unit, Arrive Alive, the North West province leads the country with 35 deaths, followed by KwaZulu-Natal with 21 and the Free State with 16. The Eastern Cape has recorded 15 fatalities, Gauteng 14, […]

SOUTH African defender Lucas Radebe scored in the dying minutes to give Leeds United a 1-0 win over Spartak Moscow on Thursday night and a place in the last 16 of the UEFA Cup. Radebe’s late strike lifted the English Premiership side into a 2-2 third round aggregate draw with the Russians and they advanced […]

THE Virginia Regional Court on Wednesday imposed a R500000 fine on the management of Rovic diamond mine after 20 people were killed in a mudslide in November 1996, SABC radio news reported on Thursday. On December 1, the manager of the mine near Dealesville in the Free pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter. Pieter Smith […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Rustenburg | Saturday 6.30pm. FRENCH-born striker Alain Amougou scored the goal that set up Sundowns for a 2-0 victory over Free State Stars in the Rothmans Cup final here on Saturday. Dreadlocked Amougou struck after 37 minutes with a shot from just inside the penalty area that took a deflection off Zambian defender […]

PERSISTENT rain forced the abandonment of the first of five one-day matches between Zimbabwe and Sri Lanka at Bulawayo on Saturday. Zimbabwe were 65 for one after 14.5 overs in reply to Sri Lanka’s 284 for nine when the match was called off. Three half centuries and steady scoring down the order took Sri Lanka […]

SOUTH African soccer skipper Lucas Radebe has added his voice to those campaigning the country’s hosting of the 2006 World Cup. Radebe has told the British media that his country is ready to host the finals and said “There is no doubt South Africa is ready.” Radebe, who is also the skipper of his English […]

POLICE are on Friday searching for the body of a man who was apparently eaten by crocodiles in the Sabie River in the Kruger National Park at the weekend, SABC television news reported on Thursday night. Mike Webber, a friend and a four-year-old child were swimming in the river when Webber shouted that there were […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Saturday 6.35pm. ENGLAND have scored 364/9 in reply to South Africa’s first innings 450 all-out on the third day of the second Test at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth. The last wicket of the eight that were claimed by the South Africans was that of Chris Silverwood (6) who […]

AN electrical or fuel supply fault downed the Piper Chieftain that crashed after take-off from Rand airport on Monday, killing 10 people. The Star reports that civil aviation investigators found that one of the plane’s two engine’s failed as it took off. Civil Aviation Authority technical adviser Rennie van Zyl told the newspaper that the […]