MONDAY, 10.30AM: The appointment of Lawrence “Big Bear” Ngubane as the manager of the Durban-based Amazulu soccer team has prompted Port Elizaberth Warriors manager Budgie Byrne to proclaim that the affair is becoming “distinctly more questionable”. Byrne was referring to the two dubious points awarded to Amazulu from their drawn match against Umtata Bush Bucks. […]
MONDAY, 10.15AM: SOUTH AFRICAN golfer Retief Goosen set a new record and stormed his way to a win at the French Open golf tournament in Paris on Sunday. Despite heavy rain falling over the weekend, Goosen finished with a 17-under-par 271. Jamie Spence came out of nowhere to take second place, and a disappointed Martin […]
MONDAY, 10.00AM: ALL the South African singles players in the Wimbledon tournament were eliminated on Sunday. South Africa’s great hope, sixth-seed Amanda Coetzer, scored the biggest loss, beaten in straight sets by Pat Hy-Boulais of Canada. Wayne Ferreira also suffered a dismal defeat to Cedric Pioline of France, 6-4, 6-3, 6-3. Ferreira said his defeat […]
weather The bandit weather system El Ni —o is so unpredictable that scientists can’t predict whether it’s even going to happen, writes Julia Grey YOU can rely on the sun to rise, and the seasons to tick over predictably, but in some cases, nature is not so straightforward. It’s even possible that the breath of […]
A lack of tolerance by the central party structure appears to be restricting provincial freedom and creativity, argues Jabu Sindane THE African National Congress national working committee’s intervention in the Bushbuckridge border dispute last month raises many questions of the constitutional and political importance of inter- governmental relations. For instance, to what extent: * Can […]
Human rights form a significant part of the new police curriculum, reports Tangeni Amupadhi F ROM now on police recruits will be trained to be nice to people, replacing the old-style “bandit-chasing”. About 200 000 applications have poured in for the 1 300 police posts advertised so far. Training with the new curriculum kicks off […]
There are some capable people waiting to provide the expertise that athletics in South Africa needs – but they have to be voted into office first ATHLETICS:Julian Drew JUST over two years ago athletics staged its first-ever democratic elections which predictably followed overtly political lines. At the time this was understandable because each province was […]
Zambia’s Chiluba’ Anthony Kunda in Lusaka THE Zambian government is portraying a meeting between former president Kenneth Kaunda and South Africa’s Minister of Defence Joe Modise as a plot for armed insurrection. President Frederick Chiluba’s deputies told Zambian journalists this week that the meeting – at Johannesburg’s FNB stadium earlier this month when Zambia’s national […]
Amagazine that played a vital role in our literary history is back, writes Chris Dunton STAFFRIDER, so vital in energising South Africa’s literary scene in the late Seventies and Eighties but silent for the last few years, has been relaunched with financial assistance – for the time being, at least – from organisations in Sweden, […]
The robber of Egypt’s tombs jailed last week was Indiana Jones with an English accent, writes Sara Boseley JONATHAN TOKELEY-PARRY cuts a flamboyant figure in his bright blue jackets and lime green shirts, his tan and upper-class tones suggesting Raffles or the Raj. He is a Cambridge philosophy graduate and an antiquities restorer turned adventurer, […]