STEVEN MANN, Stellenbosch | Friday 6.00pm. AMANDA Coetzer served well and hit some blistering backhands to beat Steffi Graf in three sets on Friday, avenging her defeat at the hands of the German on Tuesday. The diminutive South Africa’s victory draws the Spar Challenge exhibition series to one all, with a final match to be […]

SOUTH Africa will meet New Zealand in the semi-finals after overturning a 7-0 deficit to oust Canada 17-7 in their Cup quarterfinal of the IRB World Sevens Series in Stellenbosch. The boks went down 7-0 early on in the game when Nik Witkowski scored under the posts. In other Cup quarterfinals, favourites Fiji edged Samoa […]

THE number of air crashes in the past week has risen to three, with at least five people killed in two separate aircraft crashes in Mpumalanga on Friday. On Monday 10 people died in a plane crash in Germiston, one of the worst civil aviation accidents in almost twenty years. The Civil Aviation Authority said […]

DEPUTY President Jacob Zuma on Thursday wished South African Muslims well as they embark on the holy month of Ramadaan on Thursday night. “These thirty days of fasting are, as we understand it, a period not only about abstention from food and drink, but also a time of deep spiritual rejuvenation and awakening,” he said […]

campaign Marianne Merten and Ivor Powell Deon Mostert, the man arrested this week in connection with the recent Cape Town bombings, asked police informers to help carry out the bombings, according to police intelligence documents. The documents say that Mostert told the police informers he had protection from three senior police officers tasked with investigating […]

Mamphela Ramphele A SECOND LOOK The question I want to ask today is whether South Africans deserve democracy, whether they deserve the benefits of the sacrifices of those who fought for democracy. Douglas MacArthur once said: “No man [woman] is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation.” This quote […]

Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION ‘The answer is blowing in the wind”, so goes the chorus of a famous song, something that the Eastern Province band will no doubt have in their repertoire as the South African juggernaut and the English tourists do battle at the wind-swept St George’s Park stadium. We all know Port […]

Khadija Magardie One of the leading lights of the Commission for Gender Equality, Dr Farid Esack, has thrown his weight behind deposed chief executive Colleen Lowe-Morna, who is bringing an urgent interdict to overturn the commission’s decision to fire her. In affidavits before the Johannesburg High Court, Esack has also called for an inquiry into […]

Sheridan Griswold IF YOU CAN WALK, YOU CAN DANCE by Marion Molteno (Shola Books) Marion Molteno’s first novel in 1993, AShield of Coolest Air, is a captivating story about Somali refugees in London. Her second novel, whose title is taken from a Zimbabwean saying, won the 1999 Commonwealth Africa Writers’ award. In it she excels […]

ZIMBABWE sold 28 tonnes of elephant hides on Friday to both domestic and foreign buyers at auction for 23.2 million Zimbabwe dollars. The auction was conducted at the headquarters of the country’s National Parks and Wildlife department in Harare. The hides are used to manufacture high quality leather products. Last year 80 tonnes of hide […]