THURSDAY, 12.15PM: THE South Africans at Wimbledon had mixed fortunes on Wednesday, with ninth-seed Amanda Coetzer, David Nainkin and Grant Stafford being shut out of the tournament. Wayne Ferreira, Mariaan de Swardt and Surina de Beer managed to win their matches and go through to the second round. Coetzer was looking a tad dodgy on […]
Friday night Mercedes Sayagues Zimbabwe has a Lost City, in the Great Zimbabwe ruins, and a Fun City, in Vic Falls. More than half a million tourists flock every year to Vic Falls to have fun, since that is what tourists are supposed to do. The town has caught the disease. Every day is a […]
Mercedes Sayagues The Supreme Court of Zimbabwe has lashed back at women’s groups critical of a recent ruling that used customary law to deny a woman the right to inherit. In May, activists protested that the ruling undermined women’s rights in Zimbabwe and narrowed the interpretation of the Legal Age Majority Act of 1982, which […]
Matthew Krouse The Encounters Swiss South African Documentary Film Festival is the first of its kind in South Africa. Given our proud history of documentary film-making it’s surprising that no others have preceded this major event that launched on June 20. An initiative of the film department of the Swiss cultural organisation Pro Helvetia and […]
Justin Arenstein `Welcome to the bantustan” was the refrain echoing through Mpumalanga’s corridors of power this week following the virtual coup of the provincial government by former homeland leaders. The echoes will ring even louder if former KaNgwane homeland minister and discredited former environmental MEC David Mkhwanazi is appointed as special adviser to the premier. […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday 10.00am. MANCHESTER United have appointed Cape Town club FC Fortune as their player development representatives in southern Africa, the English champions announced on Wednesday. FC Fortune will look out for talented young footballers in the region while in return Manchester United will offer advice and technical assistance and take […]
BOB Woolmer, South Africa’s World Cup coach, has agreed a three-year contract to return to Warwickshire as director of coaching from January 2000. He enjoyed a successful spell with the English county side in the early 1990s. The deal appears to rule Woolmer out of the job of England coach until after the next World […]
AFTER the qualifying matches for the African Cup of Nations 2000 tournament, the leading scorers are: 6 goals – Theodore Ngue-Nguema (Gabon) 4 – Mahamadou Dissa (Mali), Fabrice ‘Akwa’ Maieco (Angola), Hamid Merakchi (Algeria), Christopher Perle (Mauritius) 3 – Ruphin Menakley, Etienne Rasoanaivo (Madagascar), Samson Okoth, Maurice Sunguti (Kenya), Faouzi Rouissi, Adel Sellimi (Tunisia), Modibo […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Johannesburg | Wednesday 5.30pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett, who shocked race-sensitive South African rugby administrators this week saying he would not be pressurised with his team selections, says his comments have been misunderstood and has apologised. With government and sports bodies clamouring for greater racial representativity, South Africa’s most successful coach, who has […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.00PM: DELAYS in organising the financial affairs of Transnet have forced Public Enterprises Minister Stella Sigcau to move the sale of 49% of South African Airways from October to the first quarter of 1999. Business Day reports that the delay was caused, among other things, by difficulties in determining the pension requirements held by […]