IAN Smith, the last white prime minister of Rhodesia, voted on Saturday in Zimbabwe’s parliamentary elections, telling the media he wants to get rid of the “gangsters” in power. “All I want to do is get rid of the present gangsters,” he said at the polling station at the Belgravia Sports Club in Harare before […]
CHARLTON Athletic defender Mark Fish, who announced his retirement from international soccer in February, is the surprise in the Bafana Bafana squad announced to play Zimbabwe in a World Cup qualifying clash in Harare on July. Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe will skipper the squad. Bafana Bafana Goalkeepers: John Tlale , Brian Baloyi, Hans Vonk, […]
THIRTY people died when robbers turned their guns on passengers travelling in night buses in two separate incidents in southeast Nigeria this week. In both incidents, the robbers tried to stop the buses in the early hours of Thursday morning and opened fire when the drivers tried to drive off, police in Awka said. One […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Saturday 7.35pm. A LAST-ditch effort sparked by a controversial Joost van der Westhuizen try could not see the Springboks to victory over a rock-solid England who triumphed 22-27 at the Free State Stadium on Saturday. Twenty-one year old England flyhalf and man-of-the-match Jonny Wilkinson was sublime, scoring all 27 his […]
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Whoever wins Zimbabwe’s election – and however flawed the poll is adjudged to have been – we can be sure of one thing: a massive effort will be needed to prevent our neighbour’s economic collapse and descent into worse anarchy. This will require an end to invasions of productive farmland and acceleration of land reform […]
history Ebrahim Harvey LEFT FIELD The recent re-emergence of the white Afrikaner taalstryd movement has generated heated debate in this and other papers. Unfortunately, there are some historical myths about Afrikaans and the “coloured” people it seeks to win over which have been perpetuated and need to be debunked. Much as language is the lifeblood […]
That spirited agnostic Minister of Education Kader Asmal asked for prayer last week. Hundreds of people of every race, religion and background stopped the traffic outside 123 Schoeman Street, Pretoria, to rename the Ministry of Education building Sol Plaatje House. Zanile Mbeki unveiled the plaque, Boitemelo Plaatje-Molefe, the pioneer’s granddaughter, read a tribute, and the […]
Melvyn Minnaar LIFESTYLE In 1874 Mark Twain wrote to his wife from London: “Livy, my darling, I want you to be sure to have in the bathroom, when I arrive, a bottle of scotch whisky, a lemon, some crushed sugar and a bottle of Angostura Bitters. Ever since I have been in London I have […]