Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Last year it was the top end of the Castle Premiership standings that kept us on the edge of our seats as Sundowns and Kaizer Chiefs took their battle for the title down to the wire. Sundowns defeated now-defunct Cape Town Spurs 2-0 at a freezing Odi Stadium to snatch first place […]
M&G reporter British banks last week launched a scheme to reunite Holocaust victims and their heirs with money frozen in United Kingdom accounts since World War II. The British Bankers’ Association (BBA) has published names of 10 800 dormant bank accounts holding 2,8-million frozen during the war to prevent the cash reaching enemy hands. The […]
crown Deon Potgieter BOXING On May 24 Baby Jake Matlala will attempt to become the first South African boxer to win four world titles, and that in two weight divisions. He will be challenging the tough and tenacious Peter Culshaw for the World Boxing Union (WBU) flyweight world title. Pushing him on, however, is not […]
Neil Thomas I very much admired the way Lastminute.com co-founder Martha Lane Fox stuck to her guns on a television programme last week. When gently sautd rather than grilled over the pricing of the flotation of Lastminute, she admirably stuck by the decision to float at that level and managed, in the space of a […]
As the HIV/Aids crisis in the region deepens, it is adding to the social decay in Zimbabwe Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe was billed as a peaceful country, with low crime and racial tension – far safer than South Africa. A constitutional referendum took place in February without any violence. Today, mob rule and terror reign. How […]
destructing Mercedes Sayagues The owners of the town house I rent ring early on Monday morning. Their neighbour Allen Dunn was tortured and killed by a hit squad Sunday afternoon on his farm in Beatrice, 40km from Harare. Can I vacate the house in two days? They are panicking. My mouse crashed on the floor. […]
unveiled Sarah Bullen It was fortuitously good timing for Gensec to launch its new investment in a week when the markets watched, white-knuckled, as the currency dipped to stomach-lurching lows. Particularly as the unit trusts the company unveiled, ahead of a marketing blitz aimed at the rand-phobic South African investor, promise to take your money […]
Forget soppy R&B and angry hip-hop – feisty Irish pop-rockers the Cranberries are in town Riaan Wolmarans In the mid-Nineties, you could not go to any decent alternative or rock club without, at some time during the evening, hearing the crashing opening chords of the Cranberries’ powerful song Zombie. Then, people would scurry to the […]
Andrew Worsdale Local films will be represented at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, even if they were produced and directed by foreigners. Leading the pack in the Un Certain Regard section of the festival is The King is Alive, which screens on Friday night. The film is a co-production by Lars von Trier’s Danish company […]
Who better than David Ginola to replace Princess Diana as the Red Cross’s ambassador on landmine control? On the eve of his trip to Cambodia, the Gallic glory boy talks to Denis Campbell The dark sunglasses, non- descript grey clothes and floppy hat pulled down over his eyes are a poor disguise. Almost everyone in […]