Jon Henderson Rugby Fritz van Heerden, Leicester’s Springbok lock, has taken to English life. He starts each working day with the 10km drive in from Little Stretton, a tiny village to the east of London where he is a regular church-goer. “I like it there very much,” he says. “It’s so quiet and peaceful.” Having […]
THURSDAY, 11.30AM: MARCELLO RIOS, who was ranked men’s tennis world number one last month, lost his opening match of the German Open 2-6 7-6 6-3 to a resurgent Wayne Ferreira of South Africa. The top-seeded Chilean didn’t go down without a fight, though, hurling himself and his racquet about the court in a most entertaining […]
Name: John Sulston Institution: Sanger Centre, Cambridge Field: Mapping the human genome Above the reception desk at the Sanger Centre, John Sulston has installed an electronic display, showing the genes of humanity streaming from the sequencing machines in Sanger’s laboratories to the Medical Research Council’s computers nearby. Look at it for a few minutes and […]
screen Norman King Oliver Reed began his film acting career through friends he made drinking in pubs, and has died at the age of 61 while out drinking with friends in Valetta, Malta. But while in front of the camera, he was a professional whose distinctive looks and fine speaking voice made him a striking […]
Neil Manthorp Cricket As far as rankings tell us anything, South African cricket lovers will find it very hard to keep a self- satisfied grin off their faces when they see the latest list of the world’s top 10 all-rounders in one-day cricket. Four of the top six are South African, including Hansie Cronje who […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer South African soccer is once again hanging its dirty washing out in public as Bafana Bafana prepare to play Jamaica on Sunday in the final match of a whirlwind Caribbean tour. The problem revolves around the old club- versus-country issue. However, instead of the national association fighting for the release of some […]
Joan Smith:BODY LANGUAGE Spinster, old maid, maiden aunt: the single woman has never had a good press. Whether she is perceived to be in search of a man, or too late to find one, the single woman’s state has long been regarded as a misfortune or a threat. Yet any woman who has been single […]
Ivor Powell If Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has a message for voters outside the political hothouse of KwaZulu-Natal, it was largely lost on the electorate of Reiger Park near Boksburg this week. At the end of proceedings, a youth with a knife scar across his throat, where somebody had evidently tried to slit […]
Stewart Dalby SpendingIt Buying antique furniture is a good investment, according to figures in British Antique Furniture: Price Guide and Reasons For Value, an annual report published by the Antique Collectors Club (ACC). This claims that antique furniture prices rose by 5% in 1998, out-performing a FTSE index of 500 shares and house prices in […]
Friday night Matthew van der Want `I have numerous talents, but bringing back life to the dead is not one of them”. That’s what Professor Sherman no doubt still says to his Wits English students and it’s what I’m left thinking about the audience we play to in the middle of Friday afternoon on a […]