JEAN Hugo and Ulrich van den Berg, two of South Africa’s most promising young professionals, stole a march on their more experienced counterparts and finished Saturday’s third round of the Zimbabwe Open locked in a share of the lead. On another windless, sweltering day at the Chapman Golf Club, Hugo fired a seven-under par 65 […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 5.30pm. THE government says it has no intention of running soccer but has an obligation to see that the game is properly administered, Graham Abrahams, the spokesman for the Sports Minister said on Monday. After a season of ongoing on- and off-field fiascos, Sports Minister Ngconde Balfour on Friday issued […]

THE Johannesburg High Court has handed down a life sentence to a 27-year-old man who raped a 9-year-old girl in October last year. Phillip Sikhosana was convicted of raping the girl at a Muldersdrift smallholding on the West Rand, The Star reports. Acting Judge Puke Maserumule on Thursday said courts need to protect children. He […]

AN opposition party meeting was violently broken up by supporters of Namibia’s ruling SWAPO party just four days before general and presidential elections, reports said on Friday. A Congress of Democrats (CoD) meeting at the coastal town of Swakopmund on Thursday evening had to be abandoned after some 2000 supporters of the ruling South West […]

LEGENDARY African footballer Roger Milla, whose four goals helped propel Cameroon to the 1990 World Cup quarter-fianls, has been voted Africa’s Footballer of the Century, by African Soccer magazine. The London-based monthly made it’s choice from a pool of the continent’s top football coaches, players and experts. And it was the name of 47-year-old Milla […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will visit the St Lucia wetlands on December 4, two days after the area is expected to be named as a world heritage site to protect and preserve it. Two days earlier, he will announce the world heritage decision at a news conference in Durban. On December 4, Mbeki will also report […]

ALL Black winger Jonah Lomu is expected to announce Wednesday that he has signed with the Wellington Rugby Union and will play for the Hurricanes in the Super 12 competition. Lomu’s signature is the biggest in international rugby and his transfer to Wellington will be a huge coup for the province. With fellow All Black […]

BOTSWANA Defence Force (BDF) XI have withdrawn from next year’s African Champions League competition saying they cannot afford the high cost of participating in the tournament. The Botswana champions cited the cost of travel and payment of the travelling costs and expenses of the match officials as the reasons for their withdrawal. The Botswana Football […]

PRESIDENT Daniel arap Moi of Kenya, where AIDS kills 500 people every day, on Thursday declared the disease a national disaster, but declined to advocate condom use to fight the epidemic. Addressing the official opening of a four-day AIDS awareness symposium for legislators here on Thursday, Moi ordered the immediate setting up of a National […]