FEARLESS attack from Callie Swart, who fired every approach shot straight at the flags, earned him the day’s best round of 64 for a two round total of 133, nine-under par, and a two shot lead over Andre Cruse after the second day of the FNB Botswana Open, at the Gaborone Sun on Friday. The […]
Andy Capostagno GOLF The Masters is just around the corner and, as has become the norm, it’s a case of who can possibly beat Tiger Woods. The hottest golfer on the planet has made fools of the odds makers so regularly that he is as low as 125-1 to win not just the Masters, but […]
Cedric Mayson SPIRIT LEVEL Capitalism is theologically bankrupt. Fear not, we can make profits and own a house or savings account, but capitalism has become a world religion. It worships money as the ultimate value of life, and spreads the false gospel that profit equals human development. Early capitalism used machines and factories to improve […]
THE Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has ordered local banks not to remit Z$500-million in dividends to foreign investors because of the country’s severe foreign currency shortage. The Zimbabwe Independent quoted sources as saying the move was made at an emergency meeting on Wednesday between central bank officials and local banking executives. Reserve Bank officials were […]
TWO amateur French archeologists aroused the envy of their peers Thursday after finding rooms and corridors in a 4600 year-old Egyptian pyramid that give new clues to pyramid building techniques. Jean-Yves Verd’hurt, a 60-year-old real estate manager, and Gilles Dormion, 55, a draftsman in an architect’s office, said they found rooms with stepped walls inside […]
Marianne Merten It is 9am at the tax court in Bellville, northern Cape Town, and the summonsed tax delinquents are sitting on the court benches – many looking sheepish that they have been caught. Andre Minnie requests a postponement to try get his “IRP5” form from Port Elizabeth. Peter Laque explains he needs time to […]
Olympics Grant Shimmin SWIMMING There’s something about an Olympic year that just seems to bring new swimming stars crawling out of the woodwork. I mean, prior to last weekend, who’d ever heard of Ed Moses in this country? No, I haven’t got my sports confused. I’m not talking about Llewellyn Herbert’s hero, the greatest 400m […]
A COMPLAINT against Rwanda’s acting President Paul Kagame was filed on Thursday in a Belgian court, accusing the African strongman of crimes against humanity and wartime atrocities. The suit was filed on behalf of Bernard Ntuyahaga, currently languishing in jail in Tanzania and facing an extradition request from Rwanda for his alleged part in killing […]
Parties in the Congo war committed themselves to a ceasefire in July last year, but the accords have been breached repeatedly Gregory Mthembu-Salter As the United Nations announces its plans for further troop deployments in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the opposing alliances in Congo’s year-and-a- half long multination war are desperately trying to sever […]
Courts in Gauteng have been running a scheme in which criminals do community service instead of going to jail Khadija Magardie Last year, Shaheed* (16) made a life- changing decision – to leave the gang that had been part of most of his life. But the notorious Westbury Fast Guns gang refused to accept his […]