SAMM AUDU, Lagos | Friday 7.00pm. Japan, the first Asian side to play in the World Youth Championship final, can beat Spain Saturday if they attack from the starting whistle, coach Philippe Troussier said on Friday. “Tomorrow’s final against Spain is open,” the former Bafana Bafana coach said. “At this stage of the competition, everybody […]
LESOTHO’S King Letsie III has agreed to pay lobola (bride price) of 40 head of cattle for the woman he will marry later this year, University of Lesotho science student Karabo Motsoening. The cattle will be driven from the ancestral palace at Matsieng, south of Maseru, on Saturday morning to the farm of the parents […]
Friday night :Brenda Atkinson Friday nights, as all Johannesburg’s near- jaded know, are no simple affair. Outbursts of spontaneous venue-crawling are likely to go unrewarded. Planning is everything. In the spirit of urban social conspiracy – theorists everywhere, my partner and I prepared well in advance. Playing 007 to my 003, on Tuesday he sent […]
Recommended l Renault Espace: Huge boot space, which can be enlarged by tipping the back seats down l London taxi:Available second-hand in the UK, they are roomy and comfortable enough for any manoeuvres l White van: Flagship of the lumpen proletariat, this is the nearest you can get to a motel room on wheels Don’t […]
It is strange, to say the least, to hear opposition parties accusing the African National Congress of wanting to do well in the forthcoming election. It is even stranger to hear the lumbering old ANC seeming to accept that it should feel a bit guilty about its likely success at the polls. It now assiduously […]
M&G reporter Relatively obscure craft-makers from rural areas and informal settlements have been chosen to exhibit in Washington, DC in June for the Smithsonian Institution’s folklife festival, which this year includes a focus on South Africa. About 100 participants, some barely known outside their own regions, will demonstrate a range of craft-making, from embroidering to […]
A UNITED Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report on the food outlook for Africa has described the situation in the Great Lakes region as “precarious”. Efforts to increase food production are hampered by “persistent insecurity, sporadic violence and bad weather,” FAO said in a news release on Wednesday. In Burundi, it said food difficulties are […]
Phillip van Niekerk:FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK I received a phone call on Tuesday night from journalist Carlos Cordosa in Maputo. “How would you like to help stop the Yugoslavian war?” he raved at me. The suggestion: join an international call for the pope to take up residence in Belgrade. At first I thought he was […]
Playing his own song in a huge American stadium is one of the highlights of Big Voice Jack life – and there’s a documentary film to prove it, writes Brendan Cooper Eighty thousand people can make a lot of noise, and when Dave Matthews leans in to his mic and says to the crowd, “Give […]
Andrew Worsdale Movie of the week Money lust, capers gone wrong and innocent heroes caught up in crime are strong generic gimmicks in movies. Alfred Hitchcock excelled in the art of throwing innocent men into conspiratorial affairs. In North by Northwest he had Cary Grant as a light hearted advertising executive who’s abducted, framed and […]