Botswana Boosts Chess Champs
Botswana has announced that it will send a team of six players, including its Women Grand Master, to compete in the SA Women’s Open Chess Championship, taking place at Cresta Shopping Centre over the holiday weekend, April 26-29.
Banyana Win, Fair Play Loses
Under impossibly contentious circumstances, the South African national women’s soccer team managed to overcome odds stacked against them, to secure a 4-2 (5-4 aggregate) victory over Equatorial Guinea.
Simpson vs Josephs
It is not only the fast growing Yellow Pages Ultimate Athletics that will be showcased on the track of Coetzenburg in Stellenbosch on Friday 2 March, but the South African Multi Events Championships take place on both the Friday and Saturday with athletes from all over Africa competing.
Guineans Beat Banyana 2-1
Yesterday evening South Africa’s Banyana Banyana lost 2-1 to Equatorial Guinea’s Women in Malabo, in a set-back to their long and daunting road to qualification for the 2008 Women’s Olympic Football in Beijing.
Poor Refereeing Costs Banyana
With further concern about unfair refereeing to SA’s detriment, Banyana Banyana return from Angola having lost the first leg of their home-and away qualification process for participation in Algeria’s All Africa Games with everything to play for on the 4 February, in Pretoria.
New-Look Banyana for Angola
A new-look Banyana Banyana departs South Africa this afternoon for the first leg of a home-and-away series against Angola, after the coach wielded the axe to free his team of underperforming strikers.
Young Banyana Hailed
Banyana Banyana have failed in their bid to make it to the finals of the African Women’s Championship, after losing 1-0 to the Black Queens of Ghana, who scored from a penalty awarded in the dying moments of last night’s pivotal semi-final.