National cricket team vice Captain Jimmy Kamande has said the team would bounce back from a lacklustre Performance at the World Cricket League in Netherlands.
The veteran right-arm-off-spin bowler attributed the poor show that saw them lose all their matches to a number of factors including the wickets.
“We took long to adopt to the playing surface [...]

As part of the Olympic Solidarity program, Daimler AG handed over a Mercedes-Benz Sprinter to the South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee.
The vehicle was jointly presented by Dr Jacques Rogge, president of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) and Dr Hansgeorg Niefer, President and CEO of Mercedes-Benz South Africa, to Gideon Sam, president of the [...]

Thirteen African Heads of State have written to government leaders in donor countries, appealing for financial support to make Education for All (EFA) a lasting legacy of the World Cup 2010 for all children in Africa.
In the letter to their counterparts in donor countries, the Presidents of Benin, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, The Gambia, [...]

World 800m champion Caster Semenya has been left out of South Africa’s team for the upcoming African Championships in Kenya.
The 19-year-old has not competed for almost a year after gender tests but was cleared to compete by the athletics world governing body (IAAF) on Tuesday.
Semenya was expected to be involved for the games in Kenya [...]

FIFA said a worldwide television audience of more than 700 million had been expected to watch the final.
The victory will raise spirits in Spain which is torn by bitter political infighting over how to address Europe’s highest unemployment and crippling debt.
Despite being the first host nation knocked out at the group stage, South Africans [...]

Spain stunned the Netherlands to win their first World Cup on Sunday in sensational fashion with a goal in the last minutes of extra time.
With the scoreless match inching towards a penalty shootout, and the Netherlands down to 10 men, Andres Iniesta collected a pass from Cesc Fabregas to fire home from close range [...]

Ian Jindela

On the photo: JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – JULY 08: Orlando Silva, Romario, Bebeto, Ricardo Teixeira, Luis Inacio Lula da SIlva, Cafu, Carlos Alberto Parreira, FIFA President Joseph S. Blatter and Carlos Alberto Torres.
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Each FIFA World Cup tournament takes on from its specific identity; from the day it starts the [...]

Arsenal Football Club has disowned a Q&A interview with manager Arsène Wenger published in a local newspaper on Thursday.

A disclaimer posted on arsenal.com, the club’s official website, said Wenger “did not grant a one-on-one interview to the newspaper”. In the terse statement, the club dismissed the report and asked media houses “not to attribute any [...]

Carol Muthondu
Despite losing at the quarter-finals Ghana will take positives from Anthony Annan who could be the best in the holding midfield role at the tournament.
Annan, a relative of former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, played a starring role in Black Stars’ campaign in South Africa.
In a role that is crowded with many players which makes [...]

IAN JINDELA

South Africa is counting to the closing of the World Cup on July 11 at Soccer city. Once again the City of Gold will be dazzled with more than 80 000 expected fans to witness the closing ceremony of the 2010 World Cup. This will mark the history on African Continent. It all [...]

The Kenya’s President is seeking help from Brazil to ensure Harambee Stars feature in the next World Cup to be held in Brazil in 2014.
The President, who met with Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Da Silva at State House Nairobi yesterday, said the two have discussed ways Kenya can partner with Brazil to be adequately [...]

Hussaini Umar
President Goodluck Jonathan yesterday rescinded an earlier decision withdrawing Nigeria from all international football competitions, apparently caving in to threats of sanctions from world football governing body FIFA.
The lift of the withdrawal, announced an hour before the FIFA deadline of 5pm yesterday was to elapse, was taken at a closed-door meeting between the [...]

By Carol Muthondu
Kenya suffered a second consecutive defeat in the International Cricket Council World Cricket League Division one when hosts Netherlands beat them by 117 runs on Saturday.

Kenya lost their opening game to the defending champions, Ireland, who beat them by seven wickets.

Against Netherlands, Kenya won the toss and put their opponents in to bat [...]

Report by Carol Muthondu
Germans turned Argentines dreams of avenging their defeat at quarter-finals of the World Cup four years ago into a nightmare with a 4-0 win behind the scenic Table Mountains of Cape Town.
It had been expected to be a close affair but in the end, Joachim Loew ran out the clear victor over [...]

Report by Carol Muthondu
The hunt of the Golden at the 2010 World Cup is narrowing down to three players with Spain’s David Villa topping the list with five goals.
Germany’s Miroslav Klose is ominously lurking behind the new Barcelona forward, with four goals following a clinical brace against Argentina on Saturday.
Bayern Munich’s Thomas Muller, in his [...]