A NIGERIAN herdsman who discovered an 8500-year-old canoe has asked his local government to build him a house next to where the ancient relic is kept, the News Agency of Nigeria said on Friday. Malam Yau (59) appealed to the Yobe state government to provide him with a place to live as he received a […]
BOWLS South Africa (BSA) said on Thursday it had banned Neil Carroll until August 31 next year for an anti-Semitic slur, overturning a lighter sentence handed down by the Central Gauteng Bowls Association. Carroll, who allegedly joked that he did not want to “play with that Jewish boy”, was suspended for two years by the […]
Andy Colquhoun Rugby There is a rhythm to the rugby season by which we followers of the game can measure out the advance of each year. The pungent scent of braaing meat hanging in the air of the Pretoria suburb of Sunnyside can only mean that the Blue Bulls are once more on the rampage […]
music day With top-class gigs happening across the country for an entire 24 hours, South African Music Day is set to take local is lekker to new heights. Michelle Constant takes the microphone The key to the very first South African Music Day (March 27) is not to find all the answers but to feel […]
ground If record-breaking versatility equals greatness, Paul Tergat has ascended into the stratosphere reserved for distance running’s true immortals. In the space of less than two years, the Kenyan has waltzed to a world record in the 10 000m and won the world cross-country championship for a record fourth consecutive time. Toss in a world […]
At first glance, wars in Southern Africa and Yugoslavia have little in common. Barely a decade ago American and Soviet strategists might have linked them to their global rivalry and to the risk of nuclear war. Today such conflicts are isolated, with external involvement responding to a new diplomatic drumbeat of regional solutions for regional […]
The latest chapter in her continuing fascination with pathology, psychosis, sick humour and sleazy soap opera is Shireen James’s new play Viagra Falls. James is the writer/director of When Suicides Meet, a meditation upon the inner torment of Sylvia Plath, and Alice Threw The Looking Glass, a harrowing and gruesomely comic portrayal of a young […]
THE Independent Commission for the Remuneration of Public Office Bearers recommended on Friday that parliamentarians re-elected to their seats after the June 2 general election should receive 10% salary increases. However, the proposal only applies to those who are re-elected — those elected to Parliament for the first time this year should be paid at […]
THE South African Under 19 rugby team got their 1999 IRB/Fira Junior World Championship campaign off to a winning start on Wednesday night in Newport, Wales, with a hard fought 17-12 victory over Newport Juniors. Wing Jacques Booysen, centre Jean de Villiers and lock Louis Holtzhausen scored the sides’ tries while talented flyhalf Daniel Philander […]
The bombing of Belgrade is yet another warning that the USwill stop at nothing to secure world domination, writes John Pilger When the United States dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima after Japan had all but surrendered, the front page of the London Daily Express said: “This is a warning to the world.” When American […]