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/ 15 December 2005
How appropriate. Moroka Swallows and Orlando Pirates will perform the last rites over one of the first temples of local football, Orlando Stadium, on Sunday. After this match, the stadium will be reduced to rubble in preparation for the building of a modern facility. Orlando Stadium is no ordinary ground, which is why the Swallows-Pirates match is the perfect choice, because this is no ordinary fixture.
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/ 9 December 2005
There are sporting contests so special that the faithful plan months, even years, ahead for the next instalment of their favourite event. The World Cup is one such occasion, cricket’s Ashes series is another. In South Africa, the Soweto Derby features high among these events. At least it does most of the time.
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/ 2 December 2005
Football connoisseurs may remember Good Friday of 1985 as the day one of South Africa’s best talents was unveiled. Pitso Mosimane, a youngster recently recruited from amateur team Rockville Hungry Lions, burst into the Vosloorus stadium wearing the colours of Jomo Cosmos to score a memorable hat-trick against Kaizer Chiefs.
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/ 25 November 2005
This weekend’s fixtures, Orlando Pirates versus Sundowns and United against Kaizer Chiefs, give Pretorians another opportunity to stick it further to their more illustrious, but currently beleaguered, Johannesburg rivals. The slight snag is that the protagonists in this drama cannot in all honesty describe theirs as a tale of two cities.
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/ 25 November 2005
It may never have been his intention, but Sizwe Nxasana, the incoming CEO of First Rand Retail, could very well be employment equity and black economic empowerment’s knight in shining black armour. Nxasana, better known for his seven-and-a-half-year stint as Telkom’s CEO, says he owes his rise to the measures put in place after 1994 to redress the race-based economic divide.
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/ 21 November 2005
The stone, mud and thatch huts of Letseng-La-Terae, atop Lesotho’s Maluti mountains, seem a glaring anachronism beside the high-tech Letseng Diamond Mine across the road. Locals show a deep distrust for outsiders, and at an altitude of 3 200m, the mine may be the world’s most rarified diamond operation.
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/ 21 November 2005
Former Legal Resources Centre director and KwaZulu-Natal Judge Chris Nicholson appears to be an early front-runner to hear the explosive Jacob Zuma corruption case, set down for next July. Law professionals, in what is still officially the Natal Division, say Nicholson’s name is frequently cited among the judges in the division who are seen as sufficiently senior to try the case.
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/ 18 November 2005
There is a romance in local football circles that will forever link Jomo Sono to Orlando Pirates. He is arguably the Soweto club’s favourite son of all time. This sentimentality was again at the fore when Sono’s team, Jomo Cosmos, beat Kaizer Chiefs 2-0 in the Coca-Cola Cup quarterfinals.
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/ 28 October 2005
The Black Lawyers Association has ”questioned the wisdom” of Cape High Court Judge Wilfred Thring’s decision to place correspondence between him and the office of the Chief Justice relating to racism in the judiciary in the public domain. The Cape Times reported that Judge Thring had placed all correspondence relating to the festering race row in the Cape Division in the national state archives.
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/ 28 October 2005
A black executive of the Law Society of South Africa has taken the organisation to the Labour Court, accusing the society of racial and gender discrimination against her. Anna Mkwena, the society’s communications director, accuses the society and its offshoot, the Attorneys Fidelity Fund, of a range of discriminatory practices including bias in the issuing of home and car loans.