Mon 25 July 2022: National Assembly Speaker Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula and the National Council of Provinces Chairperson, Amos Masondo, have congratulated the national women’s senior football team, Banyana Banyana, on winning the Women’s African Cup of Nations held in Morocco. The team triumphed 2-1 over the hosts Morocco in an intense final held at the Prince […]
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Fri 22 July 2022: Sadio Mane has been named African Footballer of the Year after a season in which he scored the winning penalty for Senegal as they won their first Africa Cup of Nations title and repeated the feat when they qualified for the World Cup. The 30-year-old forward player won the award for the first time in 2019 while he was playing for English club Liverpool. He recently signed a three-year contract with German giant Bayern Munich. “I am really honoured and highly delighted […]
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Sat 16 July 2022: Congratulations are in order as the former world number one, Maria Sharapova, announced on Friday (July 15) that she has given birth to a baby boy. His name is Theodore, Sharapova revealed. The five-time Grand Slam champion Sharapova and the 42-year-old British businessman Alexander Gilkes announced their engagement in December 2020. […]
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Thu 14 July 2022: Despite receiving his visa to travel to the United States less than 24 hours before the event, Africa’s fastest man, Ferdinand Omanyala, said he is “positive” he will compete at the World Athletics Championships in Eugene, Oregon, Reuters reported. Omanyala, who is on the entry list for the 100-meter race, initially […]
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Sat 09 July 2022: Qatar’s World Cup stadium stands are set to be alcohol-free, with beer sales outside arenas only allowed before and after some matches, a source with knowledge of plans for the soccer tournament said, Reuters reports. This year’s World Cup is the first to be held in a Muslim country with strict controls on alcohol, presenting […]
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The Inauguration of Al Bayt Stadium in Qatar. (FILE PHOTO) Wed 29 June 2022: FIFA announced Wednesday that organizers had sold 1.8 million tickets for this year’s World Cup in Qatar, ahead of the next phase of ticket sales, which begins on July 5. Fans in the Gulf Arab state have purchased the most tickets […]
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Thu 23 June 2022: Three people are scheduled to appear in court in London following the alleged robbery of former boxing world champion Amir Khan at gunpoint. The Metropolitan Police have charged Ahmed Bana, 25, Nurul Amin, 24, and Dante Campbell, 20, in connection with the April incident in Leyton, east London. Scotland Yard stated […]
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Tue 14 June 2022: The Palestine national football team today (Tuesday 14 June) qualified for the Asian Football Confederation (AFC) Asian Cup tournament after defeating the Philippines in their last group stage match, Wafa news agency has reported. Palestine won 4-0 in the match at the Sports Centre Stadium in Mongolia. The team ended the group […]
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Kathryn Mayorga, pictured with Ronaldo on the night of the incident. Sat 10 June 2022: According to Sky News in the United Kingdom, a US judge has dismissed the rape complaint filed against Manchester United and Portugal soccer player Cristiano Ronaldo in Las Vegas. Nearly three years ago, prosecutors in Las Vegas said Ronaldo would […]
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Tue 07 June 2022: Qatar plans to re-install a sculpture immortalising French-Algerian football player, Zinedine Zidane’s head butt during the 2006 World Cup final, which had been removed in 2013 amid a domestic backlash, the head of Qatar Museums said on Monday, Reuters reports. The 5-metre bronze work called “Coup de tête” was removed days after its […]
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