OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wellington | Saturday 10.00am. DARYLL Cullinan was dismissed for the first time in the series with an average of 427 as South Africa closed the third day of the of the third Test against New Zealand on Saturday on 498 for eight. The tourists stretched their first innings lead to a daunting 276 […]

FRENCH-based defender Pierre Issa has been recalled to the South African squad for their next African Nations Cup qualifying match against Gabon in Libreville on April 10, coach Trott Moloto said on Thursday. Bafana Bafana beat Gabon 4-1 last month .Issa, who plays for Marseille, has missed the last two qualifiers through injury. The squad […]

EASTERNS cricket chief executive officer Albie During has been retrenched. A statement issued on Thursday by the Port Elizabeth-based Eastern Cricket Union said the union had been restructured, based on financial constraints. “As a result, the CEO position has become redundant, and as such Mr During has been retrenched.” It said his package was still […]

THE Otago Highlanders named their team on Thursday for Saturday’s Super 12 match against the Cats at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The team comprises: Jeff Wilson, Brendan Laney, Jeremy Stanley, Pita Alatini, Romi Ropati, Tony Brown, Byron Kelleher, Isitolo Maka, Josh Kronfeld, Taine Randell (capt), John Blaikie, Brendon Timmins, Carl Hoeft, Anton Oliver, Joe McDonnell. […]

BAFANA Bafana goalkeeper Hans Vonk has asked that R10000 of his fee for the African Nations Cup qualifier against Gabon be donated to the SOS Children’s Village in Mamelodi. Raymond Hack, chief executive of the South African Football Association, said the gesture came during a visit by Bafana Bafana to the village, set up as […]

on your Uys Some say Afrikaans is a dying language, but the Klein Karoo Festival shows that there’s still plenty of life there, writes Andrea Vinassa Afrikaans theatre is no stranger to controversy or progress, and if you imagine that the Klein Karoo Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn is some boerekonsert, you might be right and you […]

won’t bore He’s a man of contradictions – style and good manners coexisting with arrogance and a talent to annoy. He’s romantically attached to the land of his birth, yet remains one of its fiercest critics. Roy Hattersley on the Unquiet American Gore Vidal is the most elegant, erudite and eclectic writer of his generation […]

Michael Finch : Athletics If the double “MJ” show doesn’t pack out the Ruimsig stadium in Roodepoort tonight, then Athletics South Africa (ASA) is faced with a crisis. Just the mere presence of the fastest man and fastest woman on earth, Michael Johnson and Marion Jones, in the second of the three-leg Engen Grand Prix […]

Ben Laurance For a few fleeting moments last Friday, traders on the oil market apparently thought the worst might be over. Leaders of Opec, the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries, emerged from a meeting in the Hague to declare member states would be cutting oil production by two million barrels a day. The price of […]

THE former Rwandan army major freed by a United Nations court on charges of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide remained in custody on Friday as Belgium and Rwanda sought his re-arrest. The UN tribunal freed Bernard Ntuyahaga on Thursday when the prosecution dropped charges against him but Belgium wants him for trial […]