SOUTH African Greg Emslie defeated Californian Tim Curran in the opening heat of the day at the G-SHOCK ASP Billabong MSF World Championship tour surfing event. Emslie ranked 33rd outsmarted Japan Pro winner Curran ranked eight, using a combination of superior wave choice and radical manoeuvres to gain victory. Emslie will now face Australian Brendan […]
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 […]
The location of De Beers’s South African diamonds is now a major stumbling block in talks between the state and the giant to resolve the deadlock over gem exports. Mungo Soggot reports The battle between De Beers and the government has intensified amid accusations by state diamond officials that De Beers has backed out of […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer No Premier Soccer League coach is under more pressure to deliver or die than Victor Bondarenko, the former Soviet Union international who occupies the extremely hot seat at Orlando Pirates. Buccaneers boss Irvin Khoza, who kept Bonders in suspense for several weeks before giving him the green light to continue, expects at […]
claims Barry Streek Former Minerals and Energy Minister Penuell Maduna this week admitted that he could not be “bothered” to retract his groundless accusation in Parliament in June 1997 that Auditor General Henri Kluever conspired in a cover-up of the theft of R170-million worth of oil. Though he was aware within days that the claim […]
John Matshikiza With The Lid Off Maybe it’s the drugs, but I still get occasional waves of confusion, mixed with dj vu, in my day-to-day experience of South Africa. Just to remind you, I am one of those many hundreds of thousands who returned to this turf after long years of what we used to […]
Alex Dodd Halfway up the main staircase of the Albany Museum, stuck to a bright red wall are the following words: “The universe is not to be narrowed down to the limits of the understanding which has been man’s practice up to now, but the understanding must be stretched and enlarged to take in the […]
Women of the sports world are no longer hiding behind their skirts. They themselves are the latest fashion trend and have no reason to be modest. That was the week of women in sport. The Wimbledon women, the women’s football World Cup and the England versus India women’s cricket test series are moving to centre […]
Ben Laurance and Ed Vulliamy In many ways it was a very 1990s crime. The suspected perpetrator was a loner who dressed in baggy jeans and T-shirts. He worked from home and rarely went out. The technologies of cable and satellite allowed him to surround himself with more than 100 TV sets and computer screens […]
South African theatre appears to be in the doldrums of self- indulgence, even though play makers are finding plenty to say, writes Matthew Krouse The National Arts Festival has been a glorious gathering of gurus – all strutting about like peacocks. It’s their moment, a time to get what they deserve. A time for nonchalant […]