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 […]

Paul Kirk It would have been the ultimate New Year’s party – toasting in the millennium on board a ship once billed as the largest moving object in the world. But plans to rebuild the Titanic seem to have sunk while still in shallow water. Nearly two years ago, in January 1998, CEO of the […]

COMMISIONER of prisons Khulekani Sitole, under investigation by the attorney general for corruption and mismanagement, has announced the suspension of his alleged accuser, KwaZulu-Natal provincial commissioner Thandiwe Kgosidintsi. Sitole said Kgosidintsi was under investigation herself, and was engaging in a personal vendetta. Meanwhile the Correctional Services Management Board, which met yesterday to discuss the allegations […]

When fame is an open book, Christ, Shakespeare and Lenin lead the list of icons who have inspired the world’s authors, writes Martin Kettle in Washington If fame is having a book written about you, then as the subject of no fewer than 17 239 books, Jesus Christ remains the most famous figure in the […]

Marianne Merten The year started with a blast in Cape Town. On New Year’s Day 1999 a pipe bomb ripped apart a car in the V&A Waterfront parking, injuring two people, but resulting in no arrests. The year is ending with a bang – and confusion. Police and politicians sprang into action in November after […]

Aaron Nicodemus Nostradamus, a French physician whose real name was Michel de Nostredame, was buried in a Parisian church in 1566. He wrote over 1 000 poetic prophecies for the future, and many believe half of them have come true. He allegedly predicted with nearly uncanny foresight the French Revolution, the rise and fall of […]