Internal union disputes caused the problems at VW’s Uitenhage branch in January Glenda Daniels One of the largest unions in South Africa says it has learned some serious lessons from the strike at the Uitenhage Volkswagen (VW) plant in January – and wants to ensure it can never happen again. National Union of Metalworkers of […]
Sleepy Hollow is another unsettling excursion into the dark side of Tim Burton. He talks to Mark Salisbury about Hammer horrors, Christopher Lee and a childhood love of cemeteries.
Titanic launched Kate Winslet onto the Hollywood A-list. She responded by making a series of imaginative, off-beat films – the latest of which is Holy Smoke. Now she’s married, pregnant and couldn’t give a stuff about fame, food and fat, she told Nicci Gerrard.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 11.30am ZIMABABWE shivered under the grey skies at Canterbury on Wednesday, leaving cold-victim Andy Flower under the weather with the tourists’ poor batting display. With eight days of cricket left before the first Test against England at Lord’s, Zimbabwean captain Flower is concerned about the form of key batsmen Neil […]
SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.47pm AJAX Cape Town achieved a notable Castle Premiership double over Kaizer Chiefs with a 1-0 victory at Newlands Stadium courtesy of an early goal by Carlo Scott. It was the second time in four days that the young striker scored the winner – he struck in injury time […]
MPUSH Makambi, South Africa’s boxer of the year 1999, finds himself in the precarious position of having a world title with no one to defend it against. He was set to defend his IBO middleweight world title against his number-one contender Howard Eastman last month. Eastman withdrew from the fight however, saying that he has […]
GUNMEN killed 23 people and injured 21, including 10 seriously, at a fake roadblock near Medea in northern Algeria. Local people previously said that 19 people died and 26 were injured when a group of about 20 Islamic fundamentalists machine-gunned a bus on Wednesday after the driver refused to stop at the roadblock at Hamdania. […]
THE two bronze castings of South Africa’s new Coat-Of-Arms, unveiled by President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, almost found their way into the homes of two long-fingered law students. The two first-year students, enrolled at the University of Pretoria, were arrested at the Union Buildings at 3am on Wednesday morning attempting […]
KENYAN Rotterdam marathon champion Kennedy Cheruiyot and Boston marathon women’s winner Catherine Ndereba have been left out of the country’s Sydney Olympics marathon team announced by the Kenya Amateur Athletic Association (KAAA) in Nairobi on Wednesday night. Cheruiyot and Ndereba were expected to earn automatic places in the squad by virtue of winning at Rotterdam […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Thursday 10.45am. SO confident is Baby Jake Matlala of winning a historic fourth world title when he challenges Peter Culshaw for the WBU Flyweight world title on May 24, that he is looking beyond this bout to his eagerly awaited rematch with Hawk Makepula in August. “I won our last fight,” […]