OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 5.30pm. FORMER world number-one Steffi Graf beat South African Amanda Coetzer 6-3 7-5 to wrap up the Spar Challenge in Johannesburg on Sunday. Graf won the first leg in Durban last Tuesday but Coetzer came back to capture the second match in Stellenbosch on Friday. Graf took command from the […]

At least 11 people died and 160 others are feared drowned after a ferry boat sank on Lake Victoria in northwestern Tanzania, Radio Tanzania reported on Monday. The radio report said 102 other people were rescued from the boat, which hit a rock and broke apart on Lake Victoria. The boat was apparently carrying passengers […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Rustenburg | Sunday 10.30am. Sundowns ………… (1) 2 (Amougou 37, Mudau 53) Free State Stars …. (0) 0 SUNDOWNS will play a lot better than this and lose. But do they care? Not a chance. What matters is that the Rothmans Cup bogey has been laid to rest and they are R1-million richer. […]

SUDANESE President Omar al-Beshir said order and calm reigned in Khartoum on Monday after he declared a state of emergency and dissolved parliament ahead of a vote to curb his powers. Beshir declared a three-month emergency late on Sunday and announced the dissolution of parliament, which was two days away from debating curbs on presidential […]

THE December death toll on South African roads has risen to 137 in 119 accidents. According to the government’s road safety monitoring unit, Arrive Alive, the North West province still has the highest death toll, with 38 killed, followed by 26 in KwaZulu-Natal. Fatality figures in other provinces were: Free State 23, Northern Province 20, […]

ZIMBABWE sold 28 tonnes of elephant hide on Friday to both domestic and foreign buyers at auction for 23.2 million Zimbabwe dollars. The auction was conducted at the headquarters of the country’s National Parks and Wildlife department in Harare. The hide is used to manufacture high quality leather products. Last year 80 tonnes of hide […]

SOUTH Africa were defeated 2-0 by Zambia in the Cosafa Cup under-20 final at Vosloorus Stadium in Johannesburg on Friday. The Zambians have now successfully defended the title a fourth time, but the South Africans could have done better, had they taken their chances. The first half saw well-balanced play from both sides, and the […]

ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 8.30pm. Wits University ……. (0) 1 (Alois Bunjira 47-pen) Moroka Swallows ……. (0) 0 THERE was no place for the faint hearted here as the Clever Boys collected three Castle Premiership points after a match dominated by referee Stephen Moshotle and his assistants. The man in the middle showed six […]

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 […]