Month: January 2020
Business
General news
DBSA grants SAA a R3,5bn loan
The Development Bank of South Africa (DBSA) has given South African Airways (SAA) a lifeline to stay in the sky. It has granted the national carrier R3, 5bn with R2bn upfront. SAA has been in the red for the longest of times. The National Treasury had to intervened on innumerable occasions to finance it out […]
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Pupil’s Orientation of Death
A veil of secrecy surrounds the drowning and ultimate death of a grade 8 Parktown Boys High School pupil Enoch Mpianzi at an orientation camp at Nyathi Bush and River Break lodge near Brits in North West. The lifeless body of a grade 8 pupil Enoch Mpianzi was pulled out of the menacing river on […]
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Football News
Manyama’ late strike firms Chiefs’ grip on pole position
A lethal strike by Lebogang Manyama in match officials’ optional time [90+3′] has consolidated Kaizer Chiefs’ hold at the pinnacle of Absa Premiership league with 45 solid points. Lamontville Golden Arrows tried the entire 90 minutes to fend off the runaway log-leaders [Chiefs] to near success at Moses Mabhida Stadium in Durban Saturday evening. “A […]
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Sharp Arrows aim at Chiefs
Lamontville Golden Arrows will pull out all their fit-for-purpose arsenal to slow Kaizer Chiefs down at the apex of the league table on their Saturday Jan. 25 duel. On the other hand, with Mamelodi Sundowns on continental duty, Kaizer Chiefs kitted out to extend the lead at the top of the Absa Premiership league by […]
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Sundowns Retain Tshwane Bragging Rights
Mamelodi Sundowns put away SuperSport United in an enthralling Tshwane derby and cut Kaizer Chiefs lead on pole position to seven points. There they were in their mellow-yellow athletic kit strutting their football prowess in a familiar territory. They struck again for the second time this season. Sundowns settled the Tshwane derby by beating SuperSport […]
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Tshwane Derby Comes to a Head
Not often do demanding fixtures impacting the league race directly come to a head in tandem for the second-placed Mamelodi Sundowns than the current period. In a hamdinger Tshwane derby, SuperSport United will roll out the red carpet to welcome arch-rivals Sundowns at Lucas Moripe Stadium in Atteridgeville Sunday afternoon (15h30), Jan. 19, 2020. Sundowns […]
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Leopards slow Chiefs down; Wits stumble in Cape
Absa Premiership runaway log leaders held in Thohoyandou, Limpopo’s far-north region. The stoic Black Leopards earned a point in a league fixture against on-form Kaizer Chiefs at a sweltering Thohoyandou Stadium yesterday afternoon, Jan. 18. The Absa Premiership match finished 1-1 in a packed-to-the-rafters stadium. There was no patch left to spit on. The 2019/20 […]
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Sundowns league defense dampened in Orlando
It was a night the Pretoria side Mamelodi Sundowns will hate to remember in Soweto and one Orlando Pirates will cherish for as long as it lasts in the top flight football, the Premier Soccer League (PSL). The potential champions of the 2019/20 Absa Premiership league competition seems to be standing out from the pack […]
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Pirates imposing menacingly on Sundowns’ path to the top
Pirates imposing menacingly on Sundowns’ path to the top Soweto will provide the tuff upon which Orlando Pirates will do battle with Mamelodi Sundowns in the Absa Premiership match at Orlando Stadium Wednesday night Jan. 15 at 19h30. In a must win encounter for Sundowns against Pirates tonight given the 9-point adrift between them and […]
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Setién replaces Valverde as Barcelona manager
Spanish giant Barcelona Football Club has axed Ernesto Valverde and enlisted the services of Quique Setién Tuesday Jan. 14, 2020. Setién, a Spaniard, succeeds his compatriot until 2022 at the Calatan club. According to Bostjan Cernensek writing for SBNATION: “The man from Cantabria in the north of Spain comes to Barça after having had spells […]
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