RUDOLF Straeuli, a member of South Africa’s 1995 World Cup winning squad, was named on Wednesday as the new coach of the Natal Sharks. Straeuli replaces Hugh Reece-Edwards who was sacked after the Sharks finished bottom of the Super 12 standings this year. The Sharks reached the semifinals of the competition in three of its […]
RWANDAN and Ugandan troops resumed fighting for the fifth consecutive day on Friday in Kisangani in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, despite orders from both sides for troops to cease hostilities. The sides have been exchanging artillery fire steadily from 8am. There were heavy gun battles late on Thursday several hours after a ceasefire […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Friday 3.45pm. AT least six people have been killed and 16 arrested as a strike over the fuel price in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos entered its second day, paralysing businesses and international air traffic. Business was brought to a standstill on Friday in Lagos, Abuja and other major cities, as shops […]
The King commission of inquiry this week heard evidence that implies Hansie Cronje became involved in match-fixing shortly after taking over the captaincy of the national cricket squad Peter Robinson Hansie Cronje admitted to security consultant Rory Steyn that the tape recordings held by Indian police were authentic, although they had been edited, the King […]
Andrew Benson Monaco is an event that delights and maddens in equal measure. For all that Formula One revels in the picture- postcard perfection of the boats floating in its harbour under a cloudless blue sky, there are constant grumbles about the problems caused by holding a race in a place that has more vertical […]
THABO Mngomeni has retained the Bafana Bafana captaincy for the June 18 Cosafa Cup quarter-final match against Switzerland despite the team’s 4-0 thrashing by the United States in the Nike Cup at the weekend. The 20-man squad, which will be without the likes of Shaun Bartlett and Quinton Fortune because of club commitments, contains eight […]
Bryan Rostron recounts a close encounter with the pole-sliding publisher of Valley of the Dolls ‘South Africa – whaddya think when ya think, South Africa?” mused the exquisitely tailored New York publisher who had summoned me to his plush Manhattan office. “You think hot, right?” Suddenly he was struck by a bolt of literary inspiration. […]
Matthew Krouse Mail & Guardian editor Phillip van Niekerk has won the National Television and Video Association (NTVA) Avanti award for best script in the drama category for his contribution to the series Saints, Sinners & Settlers. This was one of the few surprises at the award ceremony, held at Kyalami on June 3, that […]
In Africa today the suffering is caused from within. Wole Soyinka laments the loss of post-apartheid confidence and calls for stronger UN intervention A wave of anomie, even a breakdown of humanity, is sweeping across the continent that must be particularly galling to those who so confidently trumpeted an “African renaissance”. What we see today […]
Pensioners in the Eastern Cape are up in arms over chaos in the Welfare Department Peter Dickson Pensioners have rampaged through the Transkei, assaulting provincial Department of Welfare pay-out officials and taking others hostage, after the department quietly removed 20E000 welfare grant beneficiaries from the provincial register. The violent protests took place in Qumbu, Mqanduli […]