by MTHULISI SIBANDA JOHANNESBURG – KAIZER Chiefs fans that ridiculed the appointment of Ernst Middendorp as head coach are surely eating humble pie. Their success-starved cross city rivals that had misgivings at Josef Zinnbauer taking the reins…
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from MTHOKOZISI DUBE in Casablanca, Morocco CASABLANCA – SOUTH Africa will briefly put aside its diplomatic differences with Morocco aside when the country’s football head attends meetings to be held in the North African country on Saturday. Danny Jordan,…
from AHMED MOOLA in Cairo, Egypt CAIRO – SOME long running rivalries will resume as African teams begin their route to the Federation of International Football Associations (FIFA) World Cup Qatar 2022. The draw made in the Nile Ritz-Carlton…
by MTHULISI SIBANDA in Soweto SOWETO – ORLANDO Pirates have won the Future Champions Gauteng international football tournament after beating Russian visitors FC Spartak 8-7 on penalties at the Nike Football Training Centre in Pimville, Soweto on Saturday. The…
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA JOHANNESBURG – SOUTH Africa’s Absa Premiership is not only the most lucrative league in the continent but will be the most represented in the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) finals in Egypt in June/July. African fans have…
by SAVIOUS KWINIKA PRETORIA – THE Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) is to deliver its ruling on the controversial call to restrict female athletes’ testosterone levels, a decision that will have an impact on three athletes in the African…
from JEAN KASSONGO in Kinshasa, DRC KINSHASA – THE use of voting machines is anticipated to curtail anomalies in the crucial elections set for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) this weekend. Some 40 million voters, about half of the country’s…
by KEVIN CHEN THE 31st of October is celebrated as World Cities Day. It is an opportunity to raise awareness on the trends and consequences of increasing urbanisation and the challenges and opportunities this brings…
ABUJA -NIGERIA, Africa’s most populous country and biggest economy, has endorsed an award-winning digital literacy initiative aimed at bridging the digital and gender skills gap in the continent. Through the scheme called Africa Code Week (ACW), an initiative…
JOHANNESBURG – SAP has launched its first East African Skills for Africa programme, which would culminate in the training and certifying of graduates in a broad spectrum of the company’s software, solutions and applications. Launched…