Tag: South Africa
South Africa: FA Cup shocker No 3
AmaZulu became the third top-flight club in South Africa to be eliminated from the FA Cup by lower-league rivals when…
Steenkamp: Pistorius accused of premeditated murder
South African sporting hero Oscar Pistorius broke down in court again on Tuesday as he was accused of shooting his…
South Africa: Murder so shocking on Val day
PRETORIA (AFP) – Olympic star Oscar Pistorius broke down in tears in the dock Friday as he was charged with…
Pistorius formally charged with murder
A tearful Oscar Pistorius appeared before a South African magistrate on Friday where he was formally charged with murdering his…
9 South Africa Pupils Struck By Lightning
Nine schoolchildren are in hospital in the South African city of Johannesburg after being hit by lightning in two separate…
Keshi: We Won’t Underrate Burkina Faso
Chief Coach of the Super Eagles of Nigeria, Stephen Keshi has said that his team will not underrate the Stallions…
Blatter, FIFA president visits Africa
The president of World football governing body (FIFA), Sepp Blatter, today began a six-day trip to Africa that will take…
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Man dies watching Nigeria-Ivory Coast match
Abiodun Onafuye/ Abeokuta An engineer with Nigeria’s Federal Road Maintenance Agency, FERMA collapsed and died yesterday in Abeokuta, capital of…
Mikel Wins Bet With Kalou
Ivory Coast’s defender Emmanuel Eboue says his side were surprised by the style and determination of the Super Eagles in…
AFCON 2013: Mali knock out South Africa
Mali played party poopers in the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals for the second time within a year as they…
Nigeria, Ivory Coast showdown excites fans
One of three all-west African quarter-final clashes, between Ivory Coast and Nigeria, will headline the first knockout round of the…
South Africa Now And Into The Future
By Kole Omotoso Recently the African National Congress concluded its five yearly elective conference by re-electing Jacob Zuma as the…
Zambia need to scale Burkinabe hurdle to qualify
Defending champions Zambia must beat revelatory Burkina Faso on Tuesday to ensure their place in the Africa Cup of Nations…
South Africa, Cape Verde reach Nations Cup q/finals
Hosts South Africa and debutants Cape Verde Islands reached the Africa Cup of Nations quarter-finals after a dramatic finale to…
Nations Cup: South Africa lead group
Bafana Brighten Q/Final Chances, Beat Angola 2-0 Hosts of 2013 African Cup of Nations, the Bafana Bafana of South Africa…
South African Woman Jailed 18 months For Drug Trafficking
By Akin Kuponiyi A Federal High Court sitting in Lagos, southwest Nigeria, Wednesday sentenced a 37-year-old South African woman, Mrs.…
NFA Still Owes Me N1.4m Six Years After
Ex-Super Eagles leftback, Ifeanyi Udeze in this revealing interview told ADEBOBOLA ALAWODE that the Nigeria Football Association, NFA now NFF…
Ghana, DR Congo settle for draw
Adebobola Alawode The Black Stars of Ghana Sunday evening settled for 2-2 draw with DR Congo in their African Cup…
Cape Verde hold South Africa in AFCON’s opener
Tunde Oyedele/sports editor Hosts of the 2013 African Cup of Nations, AFCON, the Bafana Bafana of South Africa ended their…
Nigerians in Cape Town protest killing of Nigerian
Members of the Nigerian community in Western Cape, South Africa, staged a protest in Cape Town on Friday over the…
Nations Cup: Zambia’ll Dust Nigeria —Renard
Zambia coach Nerve Renard has declared that his Chipolopolo squad are battle ready to subdue the Super Eagles of Nigeria…
Eagles Wallop Farense 5-0, Head For South Africa
Tunde Oyedele The Super Eagles on Tuesday walloped Farense, a division two football club in Portugal, 5-0 in their final…
Nigerian Baby Kidnapped In S/Africa
A six-month-old Nigerian baby has been kidnapped by his parent’s neighbours in South Africa. A couple, believed to be Pakistanis, …
Inmates set South African prison on fire
Inmates set fire to the maximum security section of a prison in the centre of South Africa, the same region…
Nations Cup: Zambia lose third warm-up tie
African champions Zambia suffered a third consecutive friendly defeat when losing 2-0 to fellow qualifiers Angola Saturday in a 2013…
7 die as 34,000 scramble to fill 90 jobs
As in Nigeria, where hundreds of thousands apply to fill few vacancies, so it is in South Africa, where unemployment…
Kwambe: I’m Ready To Fight For Eagles’ Shirt
Sunshine Stars right back, Solomon Kwambe, has expressed confidence he will be on the final 23-man squad to AFCON. In…
South African roads Africa’s most dangerous
South Africa’s Transport Minister, Ben Martins, said 42 people, on the average, were killed per day on the country’s roads…
Nations Cup: Nigeria’s team depart for Portugal
The Super Eagles will on Thursday 27 December depart for Faro in Portugal via Accra, Ghana for the final phase…
Mandela spends Christmas in hospital
Ailing African icon Nelson Mandela is spending Christmas Day in hospital, his longest stay in care since being released from…