GAUTENG’S season ended not with a bang, but a whimper as they crashed out of the Standard Bank Cup in the final leg of the semi-final against Eastern Province. EP’s 62 run victory means that they will play Boland in Paarl in the final on Wednesday. Gauteng, the Supersport Series champions, looked set for a […]
TALKS to thrash out a negotiated settlement of Burundi’s devastating civil war resumed in Tanzania on Monday, attended by six heads of state and under the stewardship of former South African president Nelson Mandela. The highlight of the morning’s proceedings was an address by Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, invited by Mandela to offer the experiences […]
AN American man involved in rescue work in Mozambique has fallen to his death at a waterfall in eastern Mpumalanga. Police spokeswoman Inspector Olga Marais said rescue workers found the body of the man on Saturday morning after he fell over the 70 metre Lisbon Falls at the tourist town of Graskop on Friday. The […]
BOBSAVE Superbowl results, fixtures and draw. Second round At Caledonian Stadium SuperSport United 1 (David Notoane 33) City Sharks 0 At Chatsworth Stadium Manning Rangers 3 (Fees Moloi 40, 65, Helder ‘Mane Mane’ Muianga 24) Mabopane Young Masters 1 (Percy Malesta 43) At Greenpoint Stadium Mother City 0 AmaZulu 1 (Alban Newman 54) At Rand […]
ROYAL Dutch/Shell said on Monday it has no immediate plans for resuming oil production in Nigeria’s troubled Ogoniland. The main group representing the ethnic Ogoni said over the weekend it has given approval to Shell to re-enter Ogoniland seven years after the oil company pulled out from the tiny Niger Delta enclave after sabotage attacks […]
THE Hurricanes may be without two key players for their Super 12 match against the Blues as Christian Cullen looks uncertain and prop Kevin Yates has been suspended for two matches. Cullen has Achilles tendon trouble and will be kept under wraps in the run-up to the Blues clash, while Yates received a two-week suspension […]
Castle Premiership standings (P W D L F A P) Sundowns 26 19 5 2 55 27 62 Orlando Pirates 26 15 7 4 51 24 52 Kaizer Chiefs 26 13 9 4 34 17 48 Wits Univ. 28 11 13 4 34 22 46 Hellenic 26 11 6 9 53 32 39 Jomo Cosmos […]
UGANDAN authorities unearthed a mass grave containing dozens of corpses, including those of small children, at a third doomsday cult site in the southwest of Uganda on Monday. A journalist reported seeing tangled bodies deep in the grave after prisoners drafted in to dig unearthed 22 bodies on the property of a leader of the […]
CRACK Kenyan striker Mike Okoth, playing for Belgian club Genk, will miss a World Cup qualifier against Malawi in Blantyre on April 8 due to an ankle injury, the Kenya Football Federation said. Another setback for the Harambee Stars is that leading defender Musa Otieno will be released by South African club Santos only 48 […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Conakry | Sunday 6.30pm. SOUTH Africa edged closer to a first appearance at the Olympic Games football tournament by thrashing Guinea 4-1 in a final-round Group B match on Sunday. Goals by captain Matthew Booth, Siyabonga Nomvete and Benni McCarthy gave the visitors a 3-1 half-time lead and Manchester United midfielder Quinton Fortune […]
A FURIOUS Nigerian Football Association on Friday lodged a protest with football’s world governing body FIFA after English Premiership club Chelsea ordered their Nigerian international Celestine Babayaro to remain home, saying he is injured. Nigeria and Chelsea have been engaging for weeks in a tussle over the player who Nigeria’s Dutch coach Jo Bonfrere wants […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 11.00am. THE Black Economic Empowerment Commission, headed by Cyril Ramaphosa, has proposed that it should be given the status of a statutory body and report directly to the president, in a bid to improve the results of black empowerment. This follows the findings of a draft report by the commission […]
ROBERT Mugabe bashers now have the rare oportunity to squirt diesel in his face or throw darts at him. All they have to do is tune in to a new youth website where Mugabe’s face will be bouncing around on the screen. The player who scores the most hits in 120 seconds will set him […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has held talks in Pretoria with Rwandan strongman Paul Kagame regarding peace efforts in the Great Lakes region, Mbeki’s spokesman said. The meeting lasted about an hour, spokesman, Parks Mankahlana, said on Sunday. He had no details of the meeting but said discussions would have included the situation in the Democratic Republic […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki congratulated Vladimir Putin on Monday on his election as Russian president, saying he believes Russia will continue to play a major role in international affairs. Mbeki said South Africa and Russia have both gone through momentous change during the past decade but that many great challenges still lay ahead for both countries […]
MARCUS PRIOR, Lusaka | Monday 3.30pm. JAMES Loughnane, the Cape Town professional who plays under the Irish flag, won the R500000 Zambia Open for the second time in three years after clawing his way past overnight leader Bradford Vaughan at the very last hole of the tournament. Loughnane finished on 18 under-par after a fourth […]
ZAMBIAN squad for Cosafa Cup first-round match against Botswana. Zambia Goalkeepers: George Kolala (Zamsure), Collins Mbulo (Green Buffaloes) Defenders: Laughter Chilembi, Elijah Tana (Nchanga Rangers), Justin Kunda (Mufulira Wanderers), Kingsley Musabula (Zanaco), Jones Mwewa (Power Dynamos) Midfielders: Gift Kampamba, Mark Sinyangwe (Nkana), Charles Lota, Richard Chewe (Kabwe Warriors), Francis Kasonde (Konkola Blades), Numba Mumamba (Zanaco) […]
ANDREW MUCHINERIPI, Pretoria | Saturday 6.30pm. SuperSport United 1 City Sharks 0 THE magic wand waved by Bruce Grobbelaar continues to bring forth success for SuperSport United as they reached the Bob Save Super Bowl quarter-finals at Caledonian Stadium on Friday night. Success was achieved through a 33rd-minute goal from David Notoane, his second vital […]
AT least six people were killed and seven were still missing on Sunday following a flash flood which turned a whitewater rafting adventure in the Eastern Cape into a disaster. The tragedy occurred when a party of 24 thrillseekers in tractor tyre inner tubes were struck by a surge of water while they were negotiating […]
ZIMBABWE’S Murray Goodwin was taken to hospital for an X-ray after he was hit on the head by the ball during the second test against West Indies on Sunday. The first innings century-maker was fielding at short leg when he was felled after a massive pulled shot by Ridley Jacobs from a long hop by […]
CAPE Town professional James Loughnane, who plays under the Irish flag, ground out a superb six under-par 67 to go with his first round 69 and take a one shot lead at the halfway stage of the R500000 Stanbic Zambia Open here at the Lusaka Golf Club. Loughnane, the winner here in 1997, is ten […]
BOTSWANA’S Castle Cup first-round squad for the match against Zambia. Botswana Goalkeepers: Anthony Matengu (Police), Kagiso Tshelametsi (Mogoditshane Life Fighters) Defenders: Mogogi Gabonamong (Mogoditshane), Lovemore Mokgwetsi (Mochudi Centre Chiefs), Agisanyang Mosimanengape (Notwane), Shepherd Motshega (Defence Force), Busang Rasefako (Comets) Midfielders: Itumeleng Duiker, Phineas Maimela (LCS Gunners), Barney Marman, Masego Ntshingane (Mogoditshane), Kabelo Kgosiang (Prisons), Keitumetsi […]
THE head of Burundi’s second guerrilla army agreed on Friday to join peace talks in Tanzania alongside the leader of the biggest rebel group, who agreed on Monday to take part, though setting terms. Kabura Cossana, who described himself as the commanding officer of the National Liberation Forces, told journalists he had agreed to join […]
Paul Kirk Chris MacAdam, the head of KwaZulu- Natal’s investigating directorate (organised crime and public safety), is facing a multimillion-rand lawsuit from soldiers who claim he wrongly arrested them for a massacre that followed the assassination of Sifiso Nkabinde. Within hours of Nkabinde being gunned down in Richmond, a family of 11 African National Congress […]
Is normal service resumed? Markets surge as the blue chips bite back – and dot.coms dwindle Heather Connon It is a corporate remake of The Empire Strikes Back. Just 10 days ago a clutch of new technology stars soared into the elite of the FTSE 100 index. Since then, the shares of Freeserve, Psion and […]
SOUTH Africa’s Bradford Vaughan, a two-time winner on the Vodacom Tour, has a one shot lead after the first round of the Zambian Open at the Lusaka Golf Club. Vaughan, the elder of two brothers competing for the R500000 on offer this week, shot a magnificent six under-par 67, to lead by a stroke from […]
Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH ‘We have told everyone we will shave our heads to be like Mr [Abdoulaye] Wade. After that, we are going to stand naked in front of the presidential palace – to proclaim that we are like new-born babies and that a new Senegal is born.” With these words, the […]
Peter Dickson Costa Gazi, the outspoken Eastern Cape state doctor, has offered to personally fund the introduction of Nevirapine, an anti-retroviral drug used to combat Aids, in community clinics if the Department of Health fails to provide the drug. Gazi, the health secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress, said this week he is prepared to […]
TELECOMS firm Ikwezi has pulled out of a consortium that won a bid to buy a majority stake in state-owned Uganda Telecommunications Limited (UTL), government officials said on Friday. They did not say why Ikwezi pulled out of the consortium and company officials were not immediately available for comment. But the head of Uganda’s privatisation […]
Donna Block SHAREWORLD I’ve just returned from holiday in Plettenberg Bay, during which time my family and I decided to take a tour boat. We spotted lots of sea creatures but the waves were throwing us around quite a bit, causing my six-year-old to say, “Mommy looks just like a robot – red, yellow and […]
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UGANDAN security officials have exhumed at least 40 bodies from two graves in a compound of the doomsday cult of which hundreds of members burnt to death last week. Security officials in the area found one grave in which they discovered 20 bodies, mainly women and children. They then found a second bigger grave in […]