FRIDAY, 1.30PM: THE Blue Bulls Under-19 Craven Week side showed again that they are peerless in this year’s competition, soundly trouncing the much-vaunted Northern Free State side by 44-0. SA Schools flyhalf Tiaan Snyman was excellent, contributing 19 points with the boot. The Bulls scored five tries. South-Western Districts beat Mpumalanga 13-5. The half time […]
SPRINGBOK scrumhalf Dave Von Hoesslin is happy to play in cold and wet conditions in Dunedin, should those arise. Weather conditions are widely touted as favouring the All Blacks, but Von Hoesslin, and any other Springbok who plays in Cape Town, will be used to soggy, windy, cold weather. The New Zealand side may have […]
KAIZER Chiefs coach Paul Dolezar’s future with the organisation looks uncertain after team director Kaizer Motaung met with top coaches from Germany and Belgium last week. Motaung is expected to make a decision about who will coach the Premier Soccer League’s darling club after consultations this week. Speculation that Chief’s loss to Eseprance of Tunisia […]
FRIDAY, 12.30PM: TELECOMS parastatal Telkom on Thursday launched its ambitious borrowing programme with a $150-million syndicated loan — its first foreign loan without a government guarantee. The loan, signed in Amsterdam on Thursday, is lead managed by ABN Amro, Dresdner Bank and Socit Gnrale. The loan consists of the three-year tranche of $100-million at 45 […]
ANDY WARSHAW, Los Angeles | Wednesday 1.15pm. WORLD football governing body FIFA has pushed back the date of next year’s vote for the 2006 World Cup by four months, throwing into turmoil the carefully laid plans of the five candidates — England, Germany, South Africa, Morocco and Brazil. In a separate development, FIFA also announced […]
He may be 53 and a man of God, but Al Green still gets marriage proposals every night. In a rare interview, he reflects on a life of sin, soul and stardom. Burhan Wazir reports The reverend slowly opens the door to his New York hotel room and dispenses his trademark smile. One stoutly jewelled […]
Loose cannon Robert Kirby Yet again poor Mr Thabo Mbeki has been sorely misconstrued. On this latest occasion it was his pugnacious refusal to free Mpumalanga of its Premier, Mr Ndaweni “Lies-Are-Cool” Mahlangu, which got everyone up in arms. Mr Mbeki said that he would not be prepared to “worsen things in Mpumalanga” by firing […]
The falling gold price is making money for traders around the world, writes Belinda Beresford Champagne corks were popping in New York this week as traders celebrated their winning bets that the gold price would fall. Meanwhile, on the other side of the Atlantic in Pretoria, miners demonstrated in a desperate attempt to draw international […]
Matthew Krouse Down the tube Of all the images of South African culture identifiable to the outside world, the Ndebele homestead must stand out as the one most exoticised. In pictures of homely bliss, postcards and books have portrayed neat little Ndebele communities as organised as the geometric patterns that women paint on their houses. […]
Newtown Some big projects, with big names, are being aired in yet another attempt to resuscitate the Newtown Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg, which first saw the light of day nearly a decade ago, writes Ricky Burnett Sometime in the early years of this decade Christopher Till, then director of culture for Johannesburg, described a future […]