Computerised tabulation of votes in the just-ended Mozambican presidential and parliamentary elections failed to start as planned on Wednesday due to technical problems, an electoral official said on Thursday. Tabulation of provincial results will only begin later on Thursday. Physical counting of votes at the polling stations started immediately after polling ended on Sunday. The […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Port Elizabeth | Sunday 5.20pm. SOUTH Africa are 263 runs ahead at stumps of the fourth day of the second Test against England at St George’s Park in Port Elizabeth after posting 189/4. Jacques Kallis was the hero of the South African innings, showing great determination to reach 74 runs off 230 balls. […]

SOUTH Africa were thrashed 26-0 by New Zealand in the semifinal of the IRB World Sevens Series tournament in Stellenbosch on Saturday, but the Kiwis lost in the final to Fiji. The South Africans started well, but could not keep up the pace against the Kiwis and when skipper Eric Rush scoired on the stroke […]

TWO people were injured and more than 100 shacks destroyed when a fire swept through a shantytown in the turbine hall of the derelict Johannesburg power station on Thursday. The fire was apparently caused when a shackdweller left a candle burning. Police spokesman Inspector Phetole Mahasha said some of the residents attacked an elderly man […]

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 […]