Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION Lance Klusener, our hero, and Guy Whittall from Zimbabwe have both been given suspended sentences for swearing at each other. Big deal! If match referees had been in business in 1975, none of the Australian players would have played all year. I was fortunate enough to spend more than eight […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 2.00pm. A BATTLE of epic proprtions awaits spectators at Vosloorus Stadium when South Africa’s national under-23 side, the Amaglug-glug take on Cameroon in an Olympic qualifying match on Saturday. The visitors sport a team studded with African Nations Cup jewels, and the Amaglug-glug wil have their work cut out to […]

sale Mike Loewe Transport parastatal Transnet is planning to sell scores of remote railway properties in the Eastern Cape that have become home to hundreds of evicted farm workers and retired railway workers. The inhabitants of the railway buildings have been renting them from Transnet, which is now poised to sell the properties to neighbouring […]

Ben Ngubane Elisabeth Lickindorf’s article “SA students are scientifically illiterate”(January 14 to 20) is based on the research results of a science literacy survey conducted on first-year university and technikon students in 1994. Dr Rudiger Laugksch and Professor Peter Spargo at the universities of the North and Cape Town published the results of the survey […]

A Wits University professor’s admission that he faked clinical trials has rocked the international medical community, reports Khadija Magardie The University of the Witwatersrand is poised to decide on the fate of the disgraced head of its haematology and clinical oncology department, Dr Werner Bezwoda, who has been accused of misrepresenting the results of a […]

Ivor Powell The South African government appears to be soft-pedalling on an investigation into a list of Unita sanctions busters that was given to Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs Aziz Pahad by visiting Africa Minister Peter Hain on his visit last month. Hain passed on the names – which are sourced to British intelligence reports […]

Greek Goddess MAINROLE PLAYERS Kaizer Motaung Earned the name Chincha-Guluva – make a fool out of a defender – for his dribbling wizardry. Affectionately known as Boy-Boy, from childhood. Recruited into professional soccer – Orlando Pirates – by the late Eric “Scara” Sono, father to Jomo Sono. Left for the United States in 1969 to […]

Heather Connon SHAREWORLD When FTSE International meets on March 8 to decide who is in and out, up and down, in the London stock market, construction company BICC’s lowly 330-million market capitalisation means it could be demoted to the small-cap index – of the smallest companies in the market. But Baltimore Technologies, a supplier of […]

EIGHT Mozambican rescue workers have drowned on the Limpopo river in the floodstricken southern province of Gaza, taking the death toll across Mozambique to at least 67. Radio Mozambique said the eight died on Thursday when their boat capsized due to strong waves in the Gaza district of Guija. They were members of the district […]

Adam Sweeting When the American record industry dishes out its annual awards this month, all eyes will be on Carlos Santana, the 52- year-old guitarist who has been nominated for 10 Grammys. That would be a remarkable achievement in any circumstances, but only a year ago Santana was thought of as a 1970s throwback with […]