Yearly Archives: 2001

Stefaans Brmmer and Mungo Soggot Cell C was tight-lipped this week about its settlement with three businessmen who in a bizarre lawsuit accused the cellular operator’s Saudi owners of not paying them a $2-million”success fee” for helping to secure its licence. The settlement with Cell C’s owner, Saudi Oger, was struck with Alfred Oosthuizen, formerly […]

Batting rather than bowling is now South Africa’s strength Peter Robinson Herschelle Gibbs started the year with a duck. He ends it with more than 1 000 Test runs to his name (and still two Tests against Australia to come in this calendar). In many respects the re-emergence of Gibbs has mirrored a gradual shift […]

GOLF’SYEARINREVIEW Andy Capostagno Tiger Woods had a poor year, winning just six times on the United States PGA Tour including the US Masters. That such a season could be described as one of underachievement underlines the way Woods’s astonishing talent has changed the way we think about the game. The fact is that Woods could […]

Derek Bauer (47), left, whose savage cartoons elevated the tone of The Weekly Mail for many years, died at the weekend in a car crash near Kleinmond on his way to deliver presents to friends. An artist who worked with ad agencies, he joined the Mail six weeks after its launch in 1985. “He gave […]

We need to start listening to the world anew. Our survival may depend on it, writes Natasha Mostert Among the many grotesque edicts of Afghanistan’s Taliban mullahs, the ban on music ranked as one of the most incomprehensible. The idea that someone could be flogged for whistling a tune or clapping to a beat boggles […]

Watching sport was put into perspective by the September 11 attacks Gavin Evans Any history of 2001 has to start with September 11, and so it is with sport. The impact of three aeroplanes on two towers and one military command centre may have no connection with fairways and fields, baseball diamonds and boxing rings, […]

Media freedom is likely to come under increasing attack in Zimbabwe in the new year Chris McGreal This article will be punishable by up to two years in prison under the new media Bill likely to become law in Zimbabwe early next year. For a start, it quotes The Herald newspaper in Harare a government […]

Phaswane Mpe on life in Hillbrow You alight from a minibus taxi in Noord Street, Johannesburg, for the first time in your life. Suddenly, you feel that there is a problem. Only, you are not sure whether you are the problem or the problem is around you. You remember what you were told when you […]

SOCCER Ntuthuko Maphumulo It’s an African Champions’ League final that has all the ingredients of greatness. If Sundowns can upset the form book and get a victory in Egypt on Friday they will earn the respect of the whole continent and pocket more than R10-million. To emulate Orlando Pirates the only South African club so […]

Frank Keating on the single most important object in myriad sports, so frequently overlooked Etched as it is so vividly in the memory, it could easily be, oh, just a handful of Christmas mornings ago. In fact I was four, and next week fully 60 Christmases have gone since then. If not a reindeer hoof […]