The Commonwealth Games could restore the lustre to South African sport. At this time of mourning for our national sporting teams we don’t need some poncy philosopher to remind us that success on the international sporting stage is an ebb ‘n flow situation.
The goalless draw between Cosmos and Amazulu on Wednesday afternoon saw Jomo Sono’s dream of clinching the league title evaporate ? and bedtime brought the Amazulu players nightmares as they became the second team after Classic to be relegated from the premiership.
Arsène Wenger didn’t vote, and he feels guilty about it. ”If you multiplied me by 180 000,” he said this week, ”it would have been enough to take Le Pen out of the race.”
Trials will show the Springbok coach what the Super 12 cannot… Rudolf Straeuli wandered into the pressroom at King’s Park last Saturday wearing two surprising things: a jacket three sizes too big for him and a large smile.
POLICE arrested and charged a columnist for Zimbabwe’s only independent daily newspaper on Monday, bringing to eight the number of journalists arrested under harsh new media laws critics say are aimed at stifling free speech in the country.
SOUTH African President Thabo Mbeki described cosmonaut Mark Shuttleworth on Thursday as ”a courageous pioneer for South Africa and his continent, Africa”.
Money is siphoning so fast and furiously upwards from the working poor to the echelons of the rich that a redistribution would have a major effect at the bottom
South African cricket can thank Australia for exposing some flaws. By all accounts the think-tank staged by the United Cricket Board (UCB) this week was a worthwhile exercise.
Nothing would be more fitting than South Africa’s top earner winning the last race on the card at Africa’s richest race meeting.
After making a timid early exit from the 1998 World Cup, South Africans expect nothing less than a second-round place in the 2002 finals.