ENGLAND survived a bout with the weather to beat Kenya by nine wickets, with only captain Alec Stewart falling to the weak Kenyan bowling attack. After an interruption for rain, the Kenyans might have had some salvation in the Duckworth-Lewis rule, but the match was seen through, and England hit and bowled superbly, finishing at […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM: PUBLIC Services International, a global federation of trade unions that represents 20 million public service workers, including those belonging to the South Africans Municipal Workers’ Union, has condemned the multinational water company Biwater for trying to silence debate about water privatisation in South Africa. Biwater is bidding for contracts for water services in […]
MONTHLY African rankings from football’s world governing body Fifa were released on Wednesday, showing South Africa second on the continent. Meanwhile Fifa rankings of all international football teams give Bafana Bafana a boost from 27th to 24th. At the new level, Trott’s boys are level with Slovakia and the US. The African rankings: 1 Morocco, […]
GRAEME Hick, 134 not out, will face his sternest World Cup test to date when facing South Africa at the Oval on Saturday. England’s number three, desperate to establish himself as an automatic selection after a see-saw career, has yet to be dismissed in the tournament after making 73 against Sri Lanka and 61 against […]
STORMERS and probable Springbok lock Hottie Louw will miss Tests against Italy due to back problems. A slipped disc will be re-evaluated in two weeks, leaving the Stormers and the Boks without the promising lock. Louw’s performances in the Super 12 put him on the shortlist for Nick Mallet’s Bok side, and he will be […]
Sarah Bullen Russian-born director Sergei Bodrov saw the setting for his new feature film Hoofbeats, a big-budget production by Columbia TriStar Pictures, in Solitaire. Solitaire – best described as a tiny enclave somewhere in the middle of Namibia’s endless Namib desert – has very little going for it apart from a caf, a petrol station […]
CD of the week Shaun de Waal Koyaanisqatsi was Philip Glass’s first foray into movie soundtracks, a genre that is arguably the best showcase of his talents. It originally came out in the days before CDs, so it was considerably abbreviated, though it still became a big seller. Now Nonesuch has rereleased the soundtrack in […]
Andrew Marr SCANNING THE CENTURY: THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE 20th CENTURY IN POETRY edited by Peter Forbes (Viking) It is, of course, a completely bonkers idea, which is why it is so attractive. The story of the century in first-person prose; film; economics – yes. But in poetry? After all, few art forms have […]
Mail & Guardian reporter The state has dismally failed South African women who are raped, according to a new study. Coming at a time when the lobby seeking to protect the interests of rape victims has become more vocal, the research shows that the number of people convicted for rape, as a proportion of rape […]
Mungo Soggot Brimstone Pharmaceuticals, the Cape-based company caught with stolen drugs in a police raid, was directly warned in February to be on the lookout for some of the stolen drugs seized in the investigation. Police raided Brimstone’s warehouses last month and uncovered about R1,5-million worth of stolen drugs – including some from a consignment […]