SOUTH African soccer skipper Lucas Radebe has added his voice to those campaigning the country’s hosting of the 2006 World Cup. Radebe has told the British media that his country is ready to host the finals and said “There is no doubt South Africa is ready.” Radebe, who is also the skipper of his English […]

The diary of Charlene Smith in the week leading up to the trial of the man accused of raping her A week before the trial, I “crashed”. The police had asked me to give further details of the penetrative acts during the rape, and I did. But it put images back in my head I […]

Andrew Muchineripi Soccer The first thing that must be said about the third Rothmans Cup final is that it certainly is not what we anticipated last July when the richest domestic knockout competition in Africa kicked off. Sundowns reaching their third consecutive final comes as no surprise, but where did Free State Stars come from? […]

The Heath unit is set to investigate irregularities at Technikon SA estimated to amount to about R60-million, reports Ivor Powell With his institution in chaos, the principal of Technikon SA gave himself a 35% salary increase, pushing it up to around R1,5-million per year. Attie Buitendacht neglected to seek the governing council’s approval for this […]

LONMIN reported a 23% jump in underlying profits in the year to September 30 on Friday, buoyed by a strong performance at its platinum mines, and predicted a further improvement in the current year. The mining rump of the late Tiny Rowland’s former Lonrho empire, which last month withdrew a bid for Ghana’s Ashanti Goldfields, […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Hansie Cronje bared his teeth like few captains know how after the first Test against the West Indies last season. Lest people forget, and they do, the Wanderers Test was closely fought. South Africa claimed a first-innings lead of just seven runs and were guided to a rousing four-wicket victory by Jacques […]

Channel vision As we see increasingly often, there’s nothing the SABC television news department enjoys better than leering at someone else’s misfortune. All those loving examinations of dead bodies hanging out of taxis, weeping mothers, body bags, blood- stained teddy bears. Last Sunday evening though, SABC television news excelled its meanest receipts in a sordid […]

Urban Barney Cohen RIGHT TO REPLY We refer to your article “The SABC’s mounting sleaze” in last week’s edition of the Mail & Guardian in which mention is made of Urban Brew. We feel Urban Brew Studios cannot be blamed if we have come to the conclusion that the M&G, which also happens to be […]

The Festival of Living Treasures is set to take over from Womad, writes Alex Sudheim A warm wave of sensuous sound from the four corners of the earth engulfs South Africa this month in the form of the Festival of Living Treasures. Held in KwaZulu-Natal over five days from December 15 to 19, the festival […]

JUSTICE Minister Penuell Maduna on Wednesday acceded to a request from Cape High Court Judge President Edwin King that he retire at the end of April next year rather than the end of October. This comes after Maduna last week asked King to remain in office until the end of October. Maduna’s spokesman Paul Setsetse […]