Andreas Vinciguerra (Sweden) Age: 18 Ranking: 96 Prize money: $121122 Vinciguerra jumped 541 positions last year to a high of 96 – the third-youngest player to finish in the top 100. The left-hander has yet to win an ATP Tour title, but is an outstanding junior who considers his forehand his best shot, and clay […]

soil Richard Bowker If we are to have a history Then their consensus is It lives best in conversation, disagreement, And has its being in the history-makers Of the passing moment. – Cathal Lagan, Alcantara Memories, 1956, iii. Song for Miguel Lovedale Press has been around for so long it has almost sunk into the […]

Jacqui Pile In a few months’ time, swiping your retail club card or using your ATM card may get you free rape insurance. Lifesense Disease Management is hoping that its rape insurance policy will reach the people that need it most in this way. ”If retail stores and banks purchase rape insurance for their customers, […]

AROUND 40 people were killed in Nigeria’s economic capital Lagos when a packed urban bus ran into a fuel tanker on a major route through the city. The bus apparently lost control and careered into the oncoming tanker, the state-run Daily Times reported. Witnesses, including fire services, said around 35 people were injured in the […]

Andrew McFall The first incarnation of Bunny Chow came and went in five months in 1997. At irregular intervals a candy-coloured sheet of social commentary, architecture, reviews and interviews would punctuate your mind with the definitive full stop. Then it disappeared, leaving hordes of Durbanites looking round in bewilderment. Nine issues of thoughts and words […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 10.30am. SOUTH African cricket president Raymond White is facing a motion to oust him as a campaign to appoint a non-white chief executive gathers momentum. The United Cricket Board of South Africa (UCB) is meeting on Saturday to discuss White’s future and the appointment of a replacement for Dr Ali […]

FIVE people were killed on Wednesday and six were injured when gunmen attacked a bus in the north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The gunmen sprayed the bus with bullets without warning at the north Mogadishu Sana bus station, according to the witness, who was among the passengers. Among those killed was a wealthy businessman, […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lagos | Thursday 11.00am US oil giant Texaco has struck oil off the coast of Nigeria with a find estimated at around one billion barrels, valued at $25-billion at current prices, the company confirmed Wednesday. Texaco Overseas Oil Corporation and a Nigerian partner, FAMFA Oil, made the find in a deep-water offshore field […]

CREDIT rating agency Fitch IBCA on Monday affirmed the national claims paying ability of South African insurer Santam Ltd at AA+ and its international claims paying ability at BBB. The decision followed Santam’s R1,58-billion offer for rival Guardian National. Santam will finance part of the purchase through a R1-billion ights issue and has said the […]

ONE of the three suspects arrested in connection with the murder of Brenda Fairhead, 55, and her daughter Kia, 11, appeared in the Port Alfred Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday, SABC radio news reported. The 16-year-old suspect’s evidence was heard in camera. Police are formulating murder, robbery and kidnapping charges against him. His mother asked that […]