OWN CORRESPONDENT, Kumasi | Thursday 12.20pm. AFTER Bafana Bafana 1-1 draw with Algeria on Wednesday night, coach Trott Molotto said his team “will go for the kill” against Ghana on Sunday. “You know we are already in the knockout stages. We are definitely going for the kill against the Black Stars,” Molotto said at a […]

John Sutherland Think computer and you think 21st century. A techno-archaeologist looking at homo faber’s favourite tool sees something different: a state-of-the-art brain attached to a Sixties TV set, and a device at the human interface which has survived for 120 years: the “Remington-Qwerty” keyboard. The modern computer is an XJS Jag with a rusty […]

Charles BurgessSoccer In a corner of my mother’s house is a pin- sharp picture, taken by me, of Bobby Charlton scoring the winning goal of the 1970 World Cup. The balding maestro is bent forward, having just unleashed one of his trademark screamers from outside the box, and the ball has just hit the net, […]

Khadija Magardie The SABC has refused to accept last week’s judgment by the Broadcasting Complaints Commission of South Africa (BCCSA) which found the public broadcaster guilty of unfair reporting against Allister Sparks. The BCCSA has acknowledged that it has received an application for a review of its decision from the SABC. The directive which ordered […]

John Matshikiza WHO ARE … THE HAINS? ‘Liberal” was a term that was often (and sometimes still is) regarded as a swear word on both sides of the South African political divide. Liberals were either thought of as being the ones who sat on the fence and held back the tide of revolution, or as […]

Fiona Macleod Mpumalanga province declared its first internationally protected wetlands on World Wetlands Day on Wednesday. The Verloren Vallei Nature Reserve, 10km north of Dullstroom, is the province’s first proposed Ramsar site. This means it will be recognised internationally as a wetland system of importance, and will be protected against degradation and development. “We started […]

M&G Mail & Guardian reporters Financial adviser Magnus Heystek has withdrawn his R2-million defamation action against the Mail & Guardian, and has agreed to pay the newspaper’s costs. Heystek withdrew from the case against the M&G this week as the newspaper went to court to compel him to disclose documents relating to the case. It […]

CONTROVERSIAL number eight AJ Venter, still caught in contractual wrangles with the Cats that may end in court, has been included in the Sharks Super 12 team to play Border in a pre-season friendly on Saturday. Venter will scrum down with other loosies Wayne Fyvie (captaining the Sharks) and Charl van Rensburg. Justin Swart is […]