ANDY CAPOSTAGNO, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am. AGAINST all the odds there is still a chance that not one, but two South African teams could contest the Super 12 semi-finals. Brilliant performances by the Cats and the Stormers earned them the right to hope and had it not been for last minute scores in two matches, […]
BANGLADESH’S cricket coach Eddie Barlow, who suffered a brain haemorrhage last month, has “improved a little” and is able to speak, his wife Cally said on Sunday. She said he had been given physiotherapy for paralysis of the left side of his body. Barlow will be flown to Singapore on Monday for an examination at […]
NICOLE MORDANT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.15pm. THE country’s biggest banking trade union said it will hold protest meetings in major cities across the country on Friday to show its opposition to banking group Nedcor’s bid for rival Stanbic. Sasbo, which has 65000 members, has been vocal in its criticism of the proposed takeover on the […]
FIVE South African-based players will take the field for Zimbabwe in their Cosafa Cup quarterfinal soccer match against Namibia at the National Stadium in Harare on Sunday. Strikers Tauya Mrewa of Supersport United and Blessing Mwaruwaru of Jomo Cosmos and defenders Innocent Chikoya (Orlando Pirates), Edelbert Dinha (Ajax Cape Town) and William Mugeyi (Bush Bucks) […]
NICO van Rensburg claimed one of the biggest victory margins in the history of South African golf when he won the Vodacom Series: Gauteng by a devastating 11-strokes at the Silver Lakes Country Club on Sunday. The magnitude of Van Rensburg’s victory is put into perspective when you consider that this was a 54-hole event. […]
FIGHTING broke out early on Friday in northeast Democratic of Republic of Congo between troops from Rwanda and Uganda, who are supposed to be allied against President Laurent Kabila. Five people have died in the fighting, which began around 4.00am in the city of Kisangani, according to Lieutenant Colonel Akhram Hossein of the UN mission […]
SOUTH African champions Mamelodi Sundowns scored a credible away draw when they held Nkana FC of Zambia to a 1-1 draw in their African Champions’ League match at Kitwe on Sunday. Sundowns have never gone past the second round in four previous attempts in the three annual competitions but are now perfectly positioned, with the […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Monday 9.00am FEW Castle Premiership clubs seem to revel fighting their way out of a tight corner more than Free State Stars and so it proved on a freezing evening at Greenpoint Stadium in Cape Town. A 1-0 victory over Santos in a crucial match for the relegation-threatened visitors was achieved […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Sunday 5.15pm. FLYHALF Braam van Straaten contributed 28 points as the Stormers claimed a vital Super 12 bonus point by beating the ill-disciplined Hurricanes 43-23 at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town on Sunday. Van Straaten, the front runner for the Springbok number 10 berth, charged over for the fourth try […]
TWENTY-five people have been killed in renewed fighting between residents of two feuding towns in southwest Nigeria. Dozens more have been injured and are being treated in hospital after fighting broke out in the early hours of Thursday between residents of the towns of Ife and Modakeke, according to the reports in local newspapers. The […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 6.00pm PHUMLANI Mkhize scored two goals and could have doubled his tally as Orlando Pirates defeated Hellenic 2-0 in a one-sided Castle Premiership match at chilly FNB Stadium. With Sibusiso Zuma gone to Denmark and Siyabonga Nomvete being wooed by clubs in England, Germany and Italy, Mkhize is the only […]
THE Million Dollar Challenge, played at Sun City, has announced that it will double the winners’ purse to $2-million and undergo a name change. The tournament will henceforth be known as the Nedbank Golf Challenge and will sport by far the largest winner’s check in the game. Tournament director Alistair Roper said that the prize-money […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Sunday 7.00pm. FORMER President Nelson Mandela levelled sharp criticism at Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe during a speech delivered in Johannesburg over the weekend. In a thinly-veiled attack on ‘the tyrants of the world’, Mandela slammed the leaders of countries who enriched themselves at the cost of the poor. Asked whether this […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Witbank | Saturday 5.15pm. TONY Brown kicked an injury time penalty to secure the Highlanders a 42-40 Super 12 win over the Northern Bulls at the Johan van Riebeck Stadium in Witbank on Saturday. The flyhalf, who contributed 17 points through four conversions and three penalties, consigned the bottom-of-the-table Bulls to their tenth […]
THE London-based businessman sought by Indian police over his alleged involvement in the Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal has said that he is innocent. Sanjeev Chawla, a 32-year-old London-based clothing importer, disappeared after the allegations became public in India, but was interviewed on Friday by the tabloid Daily Express. “I have never met Hansie Cronje and […]
THE Canterbury Crusaders went to the top of the Super 12 table with a less than convincing 22-13 win over the New South Wales Waratahs, who saw their semi-final dreams buried on Lancaster Park in Christchurch on Friday. The Waratahs led 13-10 at half-time as the Crusaders found the going tough without their ace kicker, […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Durban | Saturday 7.00pm. THE Chiefs scored five tries to three to beat a spirited Sharks 44-31 and condemn them to their fifth successive home Super 12 defeat at Absa Stadium in Durban on Saturday. The Chiefs — who are third from the bottom of the log , only one place up from […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Johannesburg | Saturday 9.00pm THE limitations of a slow, unimaginative and indisciplined Kaizer Chiefs team were brutally exposed at Johannesburg Stadium as they lost 2-0 to Nchanga Rangers of Zambia in the first leg of a CAF Cup second-round tie. Goalkeeper Brian Baloyi did not help either, gifting the visitors from the Copperbelt […]
FORMER President Nelson Mandela has invited rebel groups fighting Burundi’s civil war to attend talks in South Africa at the end of May. Mandela, a mediator in the conflict since December, is also working to win approval for the Burundi army to attend the talks in South Africa. “Mr Mandela is meeting the rebels here […]
SEVERAL non-governmental organizations started evacuating staff by helicopter on Saturday from Sierra Leone’s capital Freetown to Conakry. Expatriate staff were seen boarding a helicopter belonging to the UN World Food Program (WFP) office. WFP officials at the heliport said it was the second flight so far on Saturday. The WFP representative in Sierra Leone, Patrick […]
A NEW strain of the virus that on Thursday attacked computer systems across the world causing billions of dollars of damage has emerged. “LOVE BUG 2” is again e-mail based, this time in the form of an e-mail with a joke attachment. Experts believe the new variant has been devised by a “copycat” programmer using […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Witbank | Saturday 5.15pm. TONY Brown kicked an injury time penalty to secure the Highlanders a 42-40 Super 12 win over the Northern Bulls at the Johan van Riebeck Stadium in Witbank on Saturday. The flyhalf, who contributed 17 points through four conversions and three penalties, consigned the bottom-of-the-table Bulls to their tenth […]
THE attempted rape charges against Stormers and Springbok rugby player Robbie Kempson were dropped on Thursday after Western Cape director of public prosecutions Frank Kahn declined to prosecute. After careful consideration of the evidence, Kahn said there was no reasonable prospect of a successful prosecution. Kempson was arrested by Claremont detectives at his home on […]
A BABY boom has left the Hurricanes depleted ahead of their Super 12 game against the Stormers in Cape Town on Sunday. Prop Gordon Slater and winger Tana Umaga are on “baby leave” awaiting the birth of their partners’ children. To make matters worse, winger Jonah Lomu is suspended for two weeks while hooker and […]
Ivor Powell The Office of the State Attorney has stopped providing legal assistance to victims of apartheid atrocities appearing before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission’s (TRC) amnesty hearings and is instead funding only the torturers and policemen applying for amnesty. The decision hits victims currently employed by the state – mainly former Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) […]
Robert Mugabe may soon feel he has sufficiently muddled the issues and struck enough terror into voters and his opponents to win the forthcoming elections in Zimbabwe quite comfortably. If so, this may lead him to less violent and irrational political behaviour than he has shown since he lost the referendum on a new Constitution […]
Hypertext has had a huge effect on creative writing, pushing it to places it has been trying to go for decades Karlin Lillington When Apple decided to supply a copy of a little program called Hypercard on all Macintosh computers back in the 1980s, it prepared the way for what would become the Web’s most […]
ZIMBABWE’s foreign payment arrears have climbed to at least $350-million dollars, raising the prospect of a default on its external debt and further fuel shortages, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. It said the deficit relates to payments for goods already dispatched to Zimbabwe and for orders not yet sent. Citing bankers it added that […]
John Hooper in Berlin The former head of East Germany’s Olympic programme went on trial this week in what will be an unprecedented public examination of the project to produce super women athletes by feeding them steroids without their knowledge. Opening the trial of Manfred Ewald, once head of the Gymnastics and Sports Federation, the […]
New additions to the local insurance industry are a women-only policy and maintenance protection Heather Hogan Women (and men) wary of time-consuming, expensive and sometimes futile battles to get financial support after a divorce can now take out an insurance policy to protect them against the maintenance blues. However, people in customary marriages are excluded […]
world Mercedes Sayagues President Robert Gabriel Mugabe this week articulated his vision of Zimbabwe in the new millennium: one redolent with the stale air of Albania under the paranoid Enver Hoxha, the Stalinist who led his country into extreme isolation and penury during the Cold War – a country cut off from the rest of […]
ALAN FINLAY & Reuters, Johannesburg | Friday 4.00pm. THE rand was rocked to a fresh record low of R7,01 against the dollar on Friday, in the wake of a strengthening dollar and growing fears of the potential impact on South Africa of political unrest in Zimbabwe. However by late afternoon it had recovered marginally and […]