WEST Indian quickie Kenny Benjamin vindicated the Gauteng selectors decision to include him in the starting line-up, after only arriving in the country on Tuesday, by ripping into the heart of the Easterns innings on the second day of their SuperSport Series match at the Wanderers on Friday. The lanky Antiguan brought back memories of […]

Andrew Worsdale speaks to Akin Omotoso, who makes movies like Roman Polanski on acid ‘It’s like being cursed! We go to any airport on the globe and we’re stopped … I’m sick of it. Don’t our leaders think about it? I’m sick and tired of it. Don’t they think about how they represent us? To […]

David Shapshak Products: HP PhotoSmart 1100 printer (R3 559), C200 digital camera (R2 875), and ScanJet 6300C scanner (R3 029); photo- quality paper – R60 for 20 sheets Digital cameras are one of those next big things that have initially failed to become the next big thing. They’ve suffered from being too pricey, and from […]

So you want to be a rock’n’roll star? Just turn on, upload and cash in, says Neil McIntosh The route for up-and-coming bands used to be well defined. By night, groups that dreamed of being spotted by passing record company executives would sweat it out in dingy clubs and pubs. By day they’d stick their […]

Andy Capostagno in Cardiff Rugby World Cup One thing we should be grateful for. The Springboks did not disgrace themselves at this World Cup. They had a man sent off, they loafed around during the playing of Flower of Scotland, they went hog wild for a night in Edinburgh, but in victory over England they […]

ADRIAN WARNER, Cardiff | Friday 12.25am. NEW Zealand coach John Hart quit on Friday following his side’s defeat against South Africa in the World Rugby Cup third place play-off on Thursday. ”I had been considering the decision for quite some time,” said Hart, who has been under mounting pressure since the All Black’s shock defeat […]

ADRIAN WARNER, Cardiff | Friday 11.35am. NEW Zealand rugby hit one of the lowest moments in its history on Thursday when they were beaten 22-18 by South Africa in the third place playoff to finish their worst World Cup. New Zealand will now have to qualify for the next tournament in 2003 for the first […]

THE White River town council is on the verge of bankruptcy, owes ABSA and life assurance giant Sanlam more than R12-million – an amount the council says it is unable to repay. Sanlam has meanwhile announced that it is suing the council for R3,1-million, for a loan granted before the 1994 elections. “Although White River […]

PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Thursday afternoon expressed his condolences to the family of Wezi Kaunda, son of former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda, who died on Thursday morning after being gunned down in Lusaka. “He was a prominent figure. His death was a tragedy,” Mandela said at a function to hand over documents from the Rivonia […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thusday 5.15pm. FOUR boys accused of indecently assaulting a two-year-old Orlando West girl at the weekend appeared in the Protea Magistrate’s Court on Thursday. Soweto police spokesman Govindsamy Mariemuthoo said the boys, the youngest aged seven, were charged with indecent assault. They were remanded in custody and will be placed in […]