The Dolphins have taken a stranglehold on the second day of the Supersport cricket match against the Warriors at Mercedes-Benz Park. By close of play on Friday, the home team were struggling on 84 for three wickets, still 428 runs behind the Dolphins’ mammoth 512 for seven wickets declared.
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/ 21 February 2006
Eastern Cape Premier Nosimo Balindlela has sacked provincial youth commission chairperson Mlungisi Lumka and youth commissioner Nonkuselo Nkayitshana, her office said on Monday. The working relationship with the commissioners had ”irretrievably broken down” after the publication of articles and advertisements by the commission.
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/ 22 January 2006
Showing vast improvement, the Southern Spears gave the Cats a good go for their money in going down 29-11 in their Super 14 warm-up match at the Absa Stadium on Saturday. The match was watched by a large, appreciative crowd dressed in red, but the weather was sultry enough to make even the skinniest person sweat.
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/ 18 December 2005
Dean Elgar of Free State was unfortunate to just miss a well-deserved century by one run when he scored 99 against Border at Fort Hare University, Alice, on Saturday on the second day of the Coca-Cola Khaya Majola Cricket Week. Elgar made his runs off 154 balls with eight fours and Free State totalled 192-6 in their 50 overs.
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/ 15 December 2005
It’s no wonder caretaker coach Clive Barker can ”hardly wait” to get away from Bush Bucks next week and back to his base in Durban after the Premier Soccer League wooden-spoonists slumped to another defeat against a rampant Silver Stars in East London on Wednesday night.
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/ 13 December 2005
In an exciting finish, the Nashua Dolphins beat the Mercedes Warriors by three wickets with five balls to spare in a Standard Bank Cup cricket match at Mercedes-Benz Park in East London on Monday. Everything seemed to be going the Warriors’ way until the advent of Dolphins skipper Lance Klusener.
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/ 11 December 2005
Bush Bucks and Moroka Swallows shared the points with a one-all draw in their Premier Soccer League match in East London on Saturday. It was a game of two halves, with the first half belonging to the Birds, who raided the Bucks’ goal mouth but failed to finish, with Mamecheick Niang and Dennis Lotter the main culprits.
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/ 31 October 2005
The four-day Supersport match between the Mercedes Warriors and the Nashua Titans ended on Sunday amid controversy about an hour before the scheduled close when the groundstaff at Mercedes-Benz Park were slow to put on the covers as it started raining heavily after the players had left the field because of bad light.
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/ 24 October 2005
In a move unprecedented in Border Rugby Football Union history, a vote of no confidence was on Sunday passed in the current executive and its president, Monwabisi Yako. However, after the meeting Yako declared he was still the president and it would be business as usual on Monday.
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/ 27 September 2005
A gallant Gareth Ormshaw denied Bush Bucks their second successive victory in the Castle Premier Soccer League on Monday evening. The Lamontville Golden Arrows goalkeeper was rock solid and ensured his team walked away with a point after the two teams played to a goalless draw at the Absa Stadium in East London.
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/ 26 September 2005
Storms and strong winds in East London have caused the hull of the stranded bulk carrier Kiperousa to break up, sending about 800 giant logs into the sea. Terry Taylor, spokesperson for the East London Ports Authority, said weekend storms accompanied by very strong winds and surf had opened the hull up to the sea.
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/ 21 September 2005
Bush Bucks coach Professor Ngubane dropped a bombshell on Wednesday when he announced his resignation following a string of poor results. The announcement came ahead of Bucks’ crucial Premier Soccer League game against Ajax Cape Town at Athlone Stadium on Wednesday night.
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/ 14 September 2005
Border rugby’s reluctance to support a motion that South African Rugby Union (Saru) president Brian van Rooyen stand down has elicited fierce condemnation from Saru vice-president Mike Stofile. Stofile has accused Border Rugby Football Union president Monwabisi Yako of deliberately acting in his own interests.
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/ 14 September 2005
Supersport United hammered the Eastern Cape outfit Bush Bucks 3-1 in a closely contested Castle Premier Soccer League match in East London on Tuesday. Bush Bucks opened the score in the 27th minute when former Kaizer Chiefs midfielder-cum-striker Simphiwe Mambo finished a loose ball in a scramble.
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/ 9 September 2005
If anyone in South Africa deserved the sobriquet ”Mr Softball”, it was Phillipus ”Phillip” Petrus Kahts, who died recently in Cape Town at the age of 62. The past 46 years of Kahts’s life were devoted to the game. Among other achievements, he successfully bid for the men’s fast-pitch Softball World Cup to be held in South Africa in 2000.
Bush Bucks and Jomo Cosmos played to a scrappy, goalless draw in their Premier League soccer match played on Wednesday in East London. Both teams came out of the blocks forcefully, with Bucks’ promising striker Phikolethu Stelman coming the closest in the 17th minute.
South African Rugby’s vice-president, Mike Stofile, is considering resignation, he told the Daily Dispatch newspaper on Monday. The revelation follows the resignation of Andre Markgraaff, who quit as deputy president after accusing SA Rugby president Brian van Rooyen of side-lining him from his duties.
The Free State Cheetahs held off a determined Border Bulldogs XV to win their Currie Cup match 18-12 at the Absa Stadium. In other matches, the Mighty Elephants beat the Falcons and the Blue Bulls maintained their stronghold in the Currie Cup competition at home ground Loftus by beating the Boland Kavaliers.
”I will make Bungu to retire from boxing because his time is over, declared challenger Thomas Mashaba ahead of his clash against the legendary Vuyani Bungu at a pre-medical examination on Tuesday. The two will meet in an International Boxing Organisation (IBO) world featherweight title bout on Saturday night.
South Africa beat Uruguay 134-3 in the one-off rugby Test played at the Absa Stadium in East London on Saturday afternoon. The Springboks led 56-3 at halftime. The result represents a Springbok record for points scored in a Test match, surpassing the 101-0 thrashing dished out to Italy in Durban in 1999.
Attempts to refloat the stranded log-carrier Kiperousa failed on Thursday, but the operation will be tried again on Friday evening, the South African Maritime Safety Authority said. Spokesperson Captain Peter Kroon said on Friday that the cable between the tug and the ship came undone on the first pull on Thursday evening.
When the Springboks take to the field at Absa Stadium in East London on Saturday, there will be far more than just a convincing Test win over the underdog Uruguayans at stake. South Africa are guaranteed to rout a team 11 places below them on the International Rugby Board world rankings.
The salvage tug Nikolay Chiker was on Thursday morning closing in on the stranded log-carrier Kiperousa, as part of an effort to refloat her, the South African Maritime Safety Authority said. Spokesperson Captain Peter Kroon said the tug would try to refloat her during the high tide on Thursday afternoon.
Deputy President Jacob Zuma said on Thursday the media have treated him in a ”grossly unfair” way and used the Schabir Shaik trial for political reasons. Meanwhile, hundreds of youths, participating in a protest against unemployment on Thursday, called for Zuma to become the country’s next president.
Giant Springbok lock Bakkies Botha became the latest withdrawal from Jake White’s injury plagued squad when he was diagnosed with a stress fracture of the right foot on Wednesday. Coach Jake White expressed his concern over the number of overuse injuries sustained before the start of the international season.
The bulk carrier Kiperousa is still aground by the stern off the Eastern Cape coast and is awaiting a salvage tanker from Cape Town, the National Ports Authority (NPA) said on Wednesday. Shortly after 11am on Tuesday, a Mayday signal was put out by the vessel and a massive rescue operation was launched.
Springbok coach Jake White on Tuesday used the Border Bulldogs to fine-tune his team ahead of Saturday’s rugby Test against Uruguay. The practice session at the Absa Stadium was watched by an appreciative crowd of young and old, with many fans able to secure autographs from the Springboks after the session.
A bulk carrier ship carrying a consignment of logs from West Africa was sinking off the coast of East London on Tuesday afternoon. The National Port Authority’s East London spokesperson, Terry Taylor, said they had received a call on Tuesday that the 180m Kiperousa was taking on water in her engine room.
Star Springbok lock Victor Matfield and winger Breyton Paulse cut lonely figures at Monday afternoon’s training session at Selborne College. Springbok chief coach Jake White announced on Monday that Matfield had been forced to withdraw from the side to play Uruguay in East London on Saturday.
Two news caps were on Monday included in the Springbok starting line-up for Saturday’s Test against Uruguay in East London, with Jean de Villiers picked at inside centre. The new caps are Lions scrumhalf Enrico January and right wing Tonderai Chavanga, of Western Province.
The touring France hockey side suffered a close 3-2 loss to a pumped-up South Africa Under-21 side at Xerox Park in East London on Monday. But don’t read too much into the result of the match — the first of three warm-up games for the tourists before playing the senior South African team in two Tests at the weekend.
Police used stun grenades and rubber bullets to control about 1 000 residents at Diviwe township in Komga who tried to prevent the arrest of a man for assault on Sunday. The Komga police had to call for back-up as the mob stoned and attacked them in order to prevent them from leaving with the suspect.