OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Friday 7.30pm. A SERIES of blows have left Sundowns with little chance of surviving an African Champions League clash against Saint-Louisienne in Reunion on Saturday. The first was the late return of goalkeeper John Tlale, defenders Michael Manzini and Themba Mnguni, midfielder Joel Masilela and striker Daniel Mudau from national duty […]
HARRY Simon, who recently defended his World Boxing Organisation light middleweight title with a third round knock-out of Britain’s Kevin Lueshing, has the potential to dominate the light middleweight ranking for the next couple of years. So says Bert Blewett, a South African boxing expert and editor of the magazine, Boxing World and Simon’s trainer […]
DAVID SHAPSHAK, Cape Town | Saturday 5.00pm. THE under-performing Cats produced a startling upset by beating the log-leading Stormers 18-16 at Newlands Stadium on Saturday. The Cats, producing one of their best performances in the tournament to, led 10-6 at half time, scoring two tries to one. It was a tight, tough match between the […]
ANDY COLUHOUN, Cape Town | Saturday 4.00pm. SPRINGBOK coach Nick Mallett says rugby should introduce two referees to marshall a sport that he believes is becoming increasingly difficult to handle. Mallett outlined his idea at a news conference on Saturday to unveil South Africa’s plans for the defence of their World Cup title in Europe […]
FRIDAY, NOON: THE Absa Group announced on Thursday that it is about to pay R50-million for a 25% stake in Commercial Bank of Zimbabwe, a mid-sized, state-controlled bank. ”[Zimbabwe] is the biggest export market for South Africa in the region and because of our commercial profile it’s important that we look at opportunities like this,” […]
If you begin at the spatial beginning of Joni Brenner’s Off the Wall (in the entrance, adjunct to the vast gallery space), you begin with two works that are small and strong. Chip off the Old Block and Recollect – Reconnect each use as their material and visual inspiration two worn postcard images of Rodin’s […]
Sharon Hammond Nature reserves in the former KwaNdebele homeland in Mpumalanga have become lawless badlands where gangs of armed youths attack visitors, poaching flourishes and conservation has collapsed. Animals are treated so badly that lions have lost their manes, crocodiles are kept in dry sandpits and cattle allowed to graze in protected areas. Gangs have […]
WEDNESDAY, 1.45PM: DICK Muir captain of the Western Stormers and Springbok centre has announced his retirement from rugby follwing a serious neck injury sustained in a match against the Auckland Blues three weeks ago. Muir’s career spanned ten years before he was advised to quit the game by Neurosurgeons on Tuesday. Muir (33) played 150 […]
Richard Lee in Addis Ababa One hundred and thirty-one years after a British military force ransacked Maqdala, the mountain capital of the Ethiopian emperor Tewodros II, a campaign has been launched to convince Britain to return hundreds of artefacts stolen during the expedition. The 32 000-strong force was sent to rescue missionaries held captive by […]
THE price of a litre of petrol and other fuels rose by almost 50% in Angola on Friday from 1,9 million to three million new kwanzas. The US dollar buys around 1,8 million new kwanzas. Angola produces 300000 barrels a day (b/d) of crude oil and hopes to increase output to a million b/d by […]