OWN CORRESPONDENT, Durban | Sunday 5.00pm. ENGLAND captain Nasser Hussain made a cautious half-century as the first day of the third Test against South Africa ended in near stalemate at Kingsmead Sunday. England crawled to 135 for two in 85.1 overs before bad light ended play half an hour early. Hussain batted for almost five […]

MIKE SELVEY, East London | Tuesday 11.00am. THE England cricket team’s nearest and dearest fly out tonight to join them and will need no further reminding about personal security after the policeman detailed to protect their menfolk was himself mugged at knifepoint in East London, where the entire third day of the match against a […]

SPRINGBOK assistant coach Alan Solomons has confirmed that he will coach the Stormers in next year’s Super-12 competition. Solomons is contracted to Western Province until 31 December 2000, and in terms of the contract, Western Province are obliged to use their best endeavours to secure his appointment as Stormers coach. The South African Rugby Football […]

STEVEN MANN, Cape Town | Saturday 6.00pm SOUTH Africa’s elite crime fighting unit, the Scorpions, is to head investigations into Friday night’s bomb attack outside a Greenpoint restaurant on Friday night which left seven policemen injured, two of them seriously. Safety and Security Minister Steve Tshwete made this announcement after visiting the scene of the […]

TELFORD VICE, Durban | Saturday 6.00pm. ENGLAND await injury verdicts while South Africa face a selection dilemma on the eve of the third Test at Kingsmead on Sunday. Another problem for both sides has been this week’s flash floods in Durban, which have killed at least 23 people and left thousands homeless. England have been […]

TELFORD VICE, Durban | Friday 6.00pm. WARY England spoke to third test referee Barry Jarman on Friday as a damp pitch revived the spectre of their disastrous first clash with South Africa. Two days before the start, a sign on the edge of the Kingsmead wicket read uncompromisingly: ”Pitches and outfield out of bounds to […]

TONY LEON: Democratic Party (official opposition) NATIONAL ASSEMBLY SEATS: 38 Grade: B- His Tonyness was hardly likely in Parliament to be able to match his performance in the election, and he has not. This is in part a price of success. Increasing your party’s National Assembly representation fivefold in a single election takes energy – […]

shook the world “Search in your past for what is good and beautiful. Build your future from there.” – Paul Kruger, 1902 “The only white race that has steadily been going backwards to barbarism.” – Sir Garnet Wolseley comments on the Boers during the Anglo-Boer South African War “E=mc2” (Energy equals mass times the speed […]

Shaun de Waal The books that most profoundly shaped the thought of this century were written before it began – Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species (1859), Karl Marx’s Das Kapital (1867), and Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1899). Each in its way was at the epicentre of a movement that rippled out […]

SPORADIC heavy gunfire was heard before dawn on Wednesday on the outskirts of Freetown, Sierra Leone. Sierra Leonean Information Minister Julius Spencer said the strikes were a “pre-emptive” measure by troops of the Nigerian-led Ecomog intervention force. “Everything is under control and there is no danger to the capital,” Spencer said in a local radio […]