Following a loss in their final game of the Absa Premiership season, Orlando Pirates coach Roger de Sa has called for a rise in the standard of officiating by top-flight referees. Pirates had a penalty appeal turned down against Maritzburg United at Orlando Stadium on Saturday, and goalkeeper Senzo Meyiwa was at the centre of [...]
SA Football Association (Safa) president Kirsten Nematandani on Thursday congratulated Kaizer Chiefs on winning the Absa Premiership title. A 1-1 draw with Supersport United at the Peter Mokaba Stadium on Wednesday was enough to hand the title to the AmaKhosi, ending an eight-year league wait for the club. Nematandani said Chiefs should be commended for [...]
Budgetary constraints have crippled the South African Army’s attempts to fulfil its national and international obligations, the chief of the SA Army Lieutenant-General Vusi Masondo said on Thursday. He conceded that some of their facilities were in “bad shape”. This, coupled with the army’s “ancient equipment”, made it difficult for the army to train its [...]
His detention in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) cost Professor Cyril Karabus nine months of his life, a lot of money, and has made him feel like a stranger in his own home. Speaking from his Kenilworth home on Saturday, 24 hours after his emotional homecoming, Karabus reflected on the true cost of the ordeal. [...]
Cheetahs scrum half Piet van Zyl scored two tries in the opening 20 minutes to lay the platform for a 27-13 win over Queensland Reds in their Super Rugby match on Saturday. The victory put the Cheetahs, who suffered a surprise home reversal last week, back on course for a berth in the playoffs as [...]
President Jacob Zuma, political parties and the broadcasting community has expressed shock and sadness at the death of SABC presenter Vuyo Mbuli. The SABC reported that Mbuli collapsed while watching a rugby match between the Cheetahs and the Reds at the Free State Stadium on Saturday night. He was treated at the scene before being [...]
Six people were killed in a head-on collision on the R603 in Mbumbulu, the KwaZulu-Natal transport department said on Saturday. They were all from the same family and two were children, said spokesperson Kwanele Ncalane. The family had been travelling from Pietermaritzburg to Mid Illovo on Friday night when the accident took place. It was [...]
Happy birthday to Bérénice Marlohe who turns 34 years old today. Bérénice Marlohe is a French actress who was born on 19 May 1979 in Paris, France. She is mostly well known for playing anti-hero Bond girl Sévérine in the twenty-third James Bond film, Skyfall. Her television credits include Père et Maire, Femmes de loi, and [...]
Happy birthday toPolly Walker who turns 47 years old today. Polly Walker is an English actress born on 19 May 1966 in Warrington, Cheshire, England, United Kingdom. Walker landed the title role in the television series Lorna Doone before making her feature debut in Shogun Mayeda (1991). In that same year she appeared in Les Equilibristes [...]
Happy birthday to Kyle Eastwood who turns 45 years old today. Kyle Eastwood is an American jazz musician who was born on May 19, 1968 in Los Angeles, California, USA. He studied film at the University of Southern California for two years before embarking on a music career. After becoming a session player in the early [...]