Yearly Archives: 1999

THE All Africa games was hit by another setback when technical track and field officials threatened to strike 10 minutes before the start of Thursday night’s programme at the Johannesburg Stadium. The situation was defused when Athletics SA CEO Banele Sindani promised to address the situation on Friday morning. According to Sindani, certain officials claimed […]

EGYPTIAN wrestler Ahmed Ssaber temporarily lost his sight in competition Wednesday at the 7th All Africa Games. Ssaber was about 10 minutes into his wrestling match against Mpia Isaac of Cameroon in the 85-97 kilogram category when he began screaming that he couldn’t see. Ssaber then apparently collapsed when doctors rushed towards him. But Ssaber […]

FORMER Kaizer Chiefs striker Pollen Ndlanya insists he’s fit for play in Bafana Bafana’s Afro-Asian Cup game against Saudi Arabia in Cape Town on Saturday. That’s despite weeks of inaction after the earthquake that rocked Turkey over a month ago. Ndlanya arrived in South Africa yesterday and told the Sowetan he’s still savouring the goal […]

from the All Africa Games on Wednesday night.(Under headings, gold, silver, bronze, total) South Africa 40 34 28 102 Egypt 36 47 25 108 Nigeria 34 11 18 63 Tunisia 14 12 16 42 Algeria 8 12 20 40 Angola 3 0 0 3 Cameroon 2 9 15 26 Zimbabwe 1 5 5 11 Senegal […]

GOLD medal favourite Shaun Bownes were left with nothing to show for his efforts on Wednesday when he was knocked out of contention. Bownes, the 110m hurdles favourite, pulled out of the race, which had been false-started twice, thinking that the third start was also illegal.

THE All Africa Games has threatened to ban the men’s basketball team from Cameroon if any players are involved in yet another violent incident. The potential ban follows three matches in which players from opposite teams were injured and an official was attacked. In their game against South Africa on September 11, four South African […]

Barbara Ludman HONEY, MUD, MAGGOTS AND OTHER MEDICAL MARVELS by Robert and Michele Root- Bernstein (Macmillan) Gout reached epidemic proportions in 18th-century England among those wealthy enough to over-indulge in port. But it wasn’t the port itself that was poisoning them; it was the lead it was picking up from the casks it was stored […]

CD of the week Prior to making Civilised? (Gallo), Squeal had completely ceased to exist as a band – an inevitable conclusion to a year of personnel changes, falling gig attendance and personal turmoil. All that remains of the original Long Pigs is the song-writing core of David Birch (guitar, vocals) and Brett Barnes (bass, […]

Andy Capostagno Springbok preparations It is sad to think that the Currie Cup final has become irrelevant. Once the showpiece of the season and, at least during the isolation years, the pinnacle of many players’ careers, it now just marks the time between the end of the South African season and the beginning of a […]

Barry Streek The Film and Publication Board took some “very, very difficult” decisions last year as it cleared a backlog of some 6 000 videos, many of them porn movies, to decide whether adults should be allowed to buy them, says its CEO Dr Nana Makaula. It had to decide, for instance, whether adult choice […]