South Africa 1 Mexico 1

Birmingham boss Alex McLeish is monitoring West Ham’s Carlton Cole and Fulham’s Bobby Zamora as possible summer striker targets.

Republic of Ireland 1 South Africa 0

Republic of Ireland boss Giovanni Trapattoni handed some of his fringe players the chance to play themselves into World Cup contention in tonight’s friendly clash with South Africa.

South Africa has for the first time moved to seize land from a white farmer, saying negotiations to buy the property to hand over to black claimants were taking too long.