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 […]
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 […]
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,” […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer Africa cannot hope to win the 2006 World Cup football tournament bid unless they present a single candidate against the formidable challenges of Brazil, England and Germany. The withdrawals of Egypt and Ghana last month were expected and Nigeria this week heeded the advice of Sepp Blatter, president of world governing body […]
Makhosini Nkosi There are fears that a bloody confrontation could arise between Inkatha Freedom Party and the African National Congress supporters in Nongoma when the ANC begins putting up election posters in the northern KwaZulu- Natal town. Local IFP leader and MP Albert Mncwango warned he could not guarantee that the people of Nongoma would […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week In a matter of a fortnight we have seen the release of The Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Bride of Chucky and now 8mm – all movies that revel in the art of salacious gore and sadistic voyeurism. A forerunner to all these was Peeping Tom, Michael Powell’s 1960 masterpiece […]
AN AMENDMENT to the Arms and Ammunition Act will allowed licensed firearm holders to only lend their guns to other licence holders, the Safety and Security ministry said on Thursday. The ministry said that amendment is to curb the increase of handguns being used in crime. Previously licensed holders could lend their firearms to anybody […]
THREE editors of Uganda’s independent Monitor newspaper were charged in a Kampala magistrate’s court with sedition and publishing false news that could create “fear and alarm” on Thursday. The charges follow publication in the daily on Tuesday of a photograph of a naked woman having her pubic hair cut with scissors by a group of […]
Howard Barrell You may have heard the story. It goes like this: the police have an unfortunate history which has left them, among other things, short of the skills they need to do their job; so the public doesn’t trust them; so the police don’t get the information they need for their investigations; so the […]