Andy Capostagno : Rugby There will be those based in the north of the country who are experiencing a severe sense of dj vu about the Super 12 performance of the Gauteng Cats. You may recall that the Cats won their first match last year (39-32 vs Northern Bulls), then lost nine in a row […]
Philip Nel : A SECOND LOOK I hope I am not the only Afrikaans speaker who feels uncomfortable with being made the focus of a special debate in Parliament. Although I can understand the political reasons why political parties would like to have such a debate in the run-up to the elections, I do not […]
Sixty years ago this week, Walter Hammond’s Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side in South Africa disembarked from the Durban night train at Cape Town and made haste to the waiting ship, Athlone Castle, for the voyage home. The day before, March 14, the Timeless Test, unparalleled in cricket history, had been abandoned as a draw […]
Andrew Muchineripi laments the fact that you can’t watch soccer in a cosy stadium It is a sad reflection on the people who inhabit our beautiful land that a soccer club cannot host a Bob Save Super Bowl match because the risk of crowd disturbance is too high. SuperSport United were drawn to play Orlando […]
THE European Union on Friday hailed an agreement by central African heads of state on the conservation and management of the region’s tropical forests. The heads of state of Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea and Chad, along with the vice-president of Gabon and Congo’s environment minister on Wednesday signed the Yaounde Declaration agreeing […]
Be thorough when checking up on anyone who’s telling you where to invest your money, warns Donna Block When it comes to choosing someone to help you make head or tail of your investments there is one guiding principle: caveat emptor – buyer beware. No matter how smooth or sophisticated that person may be, the […]
Bafana Khumalo Sergeant Sibusiso Gwala left his army base at Thabatshwane in Pretoria in August 1997 to rush to KwaZulu-Natal when he heard his father, African National Congress leader Harry Gwala, had died. “This was a blood relative and it was important for me to be there,” he explained this week, expressing bitterness that attending […]
Nicholas Lezard AN INSTANCE OF THE FINGERPOST by Iain Pears (Vintage) There is something about fat historical thrillers – in particular, those with pretensions – that can be uniquely dispiriting. They’re a kind of intellectual pornography, titillating us into an unwarranted sense of fulfilment. The more ambitious ones – like Umberto Eco’s The Name of […]
Sharon Hammond The Kruger National Park’s new management plan has been approved, paving the way for four-wheel drive routes and a reintroduction of elephant culling. General manager for conservation development Dr Leo Braack says that the new plan took three years to devise and had the approval of many conservationists, including groups traditionally opposed to […]
Matthew Krouse : Down the tube You don’t have to be as deep as Mike Lipkin to know that people spend a lot of their weekends in bed, in front of the television – particularly the early mornings, when those with kids probably get the worst end of a cute, co-parenting romp. If you have […]