THE South African cricket team, dubbed Hansie Cronje’s tragic heroes by one sports writer, will fly into Johannesburg on Sunday morning — about two hours before Pakistan and Australia take to the field for the World Cup final in England. Cricket boss Ali Bacher has appealed for large crowds at the airport to greet the […]
DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | day 11.00m. MZUKISI Sikali, South Africa’s World Boxing Union Junior Bantamweight world champion makes the second defence of his title in Italy on Saturday night. The gutsy South African Southpaw will be facing Luigi Castiglione, the man he dethroned for the title last year. Although Sikali who’s record now stands on […]
LANCE Klusener’s heavyweight bat and cavalier approach have combined to make him the World Cup’s leading six hitter after the first two rounds. Klusener, whose ferocious late order hitting has been a vital ingredient of South Africa’s smooth passage into the semifinals, has cleared the boundary nine times. He leads by one from India’s Saurav […]
GRIQUALAND West beat the Natal Sharks 29-23 in the Bankfin Currie Cup match played at Kimberley on Friday. Griquas led 14-5 at half-time.
THE Pan Africanist Congress said on Thursday some of the appointments to the new Cabinet were so surprising that they were “spine-chilling”. PAC spokesperson Wonder Masombuka said the appointments of Dr Nkosazana Zuma to Foreign Affairs, Patrick Lekota to Defence and Thoko Didiza to Land Affairs were of particular concern. The appointments appeared to be […]
A 66-year-old Japanese businessman visiting South Africa asked his family at home on Friday to send $50000 as ransom for his release from captivity under unclear circumstances, police said. The businessman, whose name was withheld, telephoned his 32-year-old eldest son in Tokyo twice to give the bank account and other details for the requested payment. […]
At the end of 1994, I took a film crew to nine countries on the African continent to make a documentary called Africa Salutes Mandela.
David le Page Lately, cellular phone users have discovered that the identities of not only cell users, but also Telkom users, are popping up automatically when they receive calls. This development follows the introduction by Telkom earlier this year of its Identicall system – where a special plug-in unit can be rented for a nominal […]
Andy Capostagno Rugby Well, well, well. Win a Test 74-3, make seven changes and appoint a new captain. There are those who criticised Springbok coach Nick Mallet for being too conservative during his team’s assault on the record for successive Test wins. The same people may now be wondering whether an alien life form has […]
In some areas of Ethiopia, abducting and raping a woman is accepted as the customary way to find a wife, writes Nerma Jelacic Aberash Bekele was 14 when she was abducted by seven men in southern Ethiopia, taken to a remote hut and repeatedly beaten and raped by the gang’s leader. In rural Ethiopia this […]