TUESDAY, 1.30PM: OLYMPIC gold medallist Haile Gebrselassie of Ethiopia wants to reclaim his 5 000m world records when he runs in Berlin on Tuesday night. Gebrselassie lost his two world records to two Kenyans on Friday. Daniel Komen shattered the 5 000m mark with a time of 12min 39,74sec and Paul Tergat broke the 10 […]
TUESDAY, 1.30PM: SPRINGBOK flyhalf Jannie de Beer has become the 22nd South African rugby player to join the 1 000-point scorers club. His 26 points against Australia on Saturday took his points tally in first class rugby to 1 023. De Beer, who has scored 77 points, including two tries, in his last five Springbok […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Springboks won their final Tri-nations Test match against Australia 61-22 at Loftus Versveld Stadium on Saturday. The Boks scored six tries in the second half to add to two first-half tries. The victory takes some of the pressure off coach Carel Du Plessis, widely expected to be axed if his team failed […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: MAMELODI Sundowns beat Wits University 1-0 in their Premier Soccer League match at Odi Stadium on Sunday. New signing Alex “Barnes” Bapela scored the goal that saw the “Brazilians” move up to second place in the log. Moroka Swallows beat Cape Town Spurs 2-1 at Orlando Stadium on Sunday. Striker Alex Monau scored […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: ORLANDO Pirates went down 2-1 to Premeiro of Angola in the African Champions League match at FNB Stadium on Saturday. Pirates, who are favoured to win the league, scored first through midfielder Dumisani Ngobe. In the 46th minute, Ngobe connected a cross from striker Jerry Skhosana and smashed it into an empty net. […]
MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE Third African Junior Athletics Championships ended on Saturday with host, Nigeria, leading with 21 medals, made up of seven gold, six silver and eight bronze. South Africa placed second with seven medals, including five gold, one silver and one bronze. Kenya followed with seven medals — four gold and three silver. Eighteen […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM: AMERICAN Dow Chemical Company has increased its offer to take over embattled chemical giant Sentrachem after two weeks of stiff negotiations following the refusal of Dow’s initial R10,50 a share offer by Old Mutual, Sentrachem’s second-largest shareholder. Dow at the weekend announced a raised offer of R11,75 a share. The original offer was […]
FRIDAY, 11.30AM: A WORKSHOP held on Friday to plot the way forward for restructuring SA’s R20-billion electricity distribution industry reached broad agreement on consolidation of the industry into regional distributors top boost electricity delivery to 2,5-million households by 2000. Mineral and Energy Affairs Minister Penuell Maduna told the meeting, called to set up a stakeholders’ […]
FRIDAY, 5.30PM OVER 90% of the of taxi drivers belonging to the South African Long Distance Taxi Association (Saldta) in the Mabopane-GaRankuwa area refused to operate on Monday morning in protest at new legislation which requires them to display permit stickers on their vihicles. Odi public order policing spokesman Superintendent Steve van Heerden said taxis […]
MONDAY, 10.30AM FORMER Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda was shot in the forehaead and wounded on Saturday when police attacked an opposition rally at Kabwe, 140km north of the capital Lusaka. Also hit by the same bullet that injured Kaunda was Liberal Prograssive Front leader Roger Chongwe, who was hit in the neck and is recovering […]