THREE time world champion Carl Fogarty won both heats of the opening round of this year’s world Superbike Championship with a pair of thoroughly commanding performances on Sunday. Fogarty won the first race by just over five seconds from team-mate and former world champion Troy Corser, and took the second heat by more than six […]

SOUTH Africa’s Shaun Pollock became the fastest player to record the double of 1000 runs and 100 wickets in one-day internationals in the replayed fourth match against New Zealand on Friday. Pollock broke the record of England’s Ian Botham in one-day cricket by seven matches. Pollock had scored 989 runs and taken 99 wickets in […]

NIGERIA’S outgoing military rulers have allocated some of the country’s most sought-after oil prospecting blocks to local companies with alleged links to serving officers, the Financial Times reported on Friday. Citing associates of the president-elect Olusegun Obasanjo, the British newspaper said Obasanjo is ”quietly furious”. The 10 ultra-deepwater blocks were awarded two weeks ago in […]

With most of the productions developed by community theatre groups, the FNB Vita Drama Festival is at the right place – the Windybrow Centre for the Arts, writes Bafana Khumalo The house is perched on a hill – a hill that a group of joggers use as a kind of masochistic obstacle course, running backwards […]

It was obvious, from the early stages of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, that it had no hope of uncovering the “whole truth” of the apartheid era. The best that could be expected was some kind of broadly representative truth. But this week’s release of the criminal indictment against Wouter Basson reminds us that there […]

Allan Boesak has been convicted by a myopic judiciary, argues Farid Esack, but what about its own tainted history? If Allan Boesak ends up in jail, he will be the only significant anti-apartheid political figure of the Eighties behind bars. It’s utterly bewildering. He will, after all, not be behind bars for his political activities. […]

John Higgins It’s embarrassing to introduce an academic superstar to a small audience in a large hall. “There may be just my theory of literature class here,” I murmured, as we hurried towards the lecture, adding silently, “all 10 of them!” Could the unfashionable topic, “Marxism at the Millennium”, draw in the crowds on this […]

President Nelson Mandela has been named joint winner of a Nigerian honour recognising exemplary leadership in Africa.

NIGERIA has yet to launch an official campaign for their 2006 World Cup bid and a bidding committee is not even in place. Sports Minister Emeka Omeruah said earlier this month: “It will soon be constituted,” but time is fast running out with only a year to go before Fifa decides on the 2006 host. […]

`The need to access computers has become one of the primary civil rights issues facing people with disabilities,” says Jim Fruchterman of Arkenstone, a non-profit body providing computer systems for the blind, . He is one of around 3 500 people with disabilities and their carers gathering with computer programmers, designers and technologists in Los […]