Deon Potgieter : Boxing WBA , WBC, IBF, WBO, WBU, IBA, WBF and so forth. Looking at all the different world title sanctioning bodies, things are getting pretty confusing for fight fans. Terry Pettifer, Golden Gloves publicist, coined the phrase: “It’s the alphabet soup of world boxing” and indeed that’s what it seems to be. […]
Ian Clayton South Africa’s poorest provinces have the most civil servants, it was revealed in Parliament this week. There are more civil servants in the Northern Province – 119 465 – than there are in Gauteng – 112 851 – although Gauteng has 2,4-million more residents. The Northern Province has 25 civil servants for every […]
THE descendants of Saartjie Baartman, the Khoikhoi woman known as the Hottentot Venus, have given a French museum until July to return her remains to South Africa, SABC TV news reported. Baartman was displayed as a freak in Europe at the turn of the century until she died in Paris at the age of 25. […]
THE police have proposed that a special court be set up to hear cases involving crimes against tourists, a spokesperson for the police crime prevention unit said on Thursday. Unit director Piet van Rensburg said perpetrators often get off free because victims are back in their own countries by the time the assailants appear in […]
Ferial Haffajee : TAKING STOCK >From the Top of Africa we look down on one of the continent’s largest cities. Johannesburg. At the top of the Carlton Centre (now called the Top of Africa), the city looks like a mini-land. Cars rush about on highways that criss-cross the city linking Sandton in the north with […]
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 […]
The Walkman is dead. Long live the Sony PlayStation, writes Faisal Islam Lara Croft’s newly released album on Sony Records is not available in the shops. Fans of the electronic games heroine turned virtual pop star will have to hook up their PlayStation to a Sony digital network and download directly to minidisc in seconds. […]
AFRICAN National Congress stalwart Walter Sisulu was released from hospital on Friday after treatment for chest pains, high blood pressure and blood sugar problems.The 86-year-old Sisulu was admitted to hospital on Sunday for the the second time in a week amid growing concern for his health.A Morningside Clinic spokesperson said on Friday he is “doing […]
Friday night : Rudeboy Paul Kicking back after a week of Groove Kamikazes till 10, where to go since Y2K burned down? To get down till break of dawn with beautiful girls and chilled vibes? Nice and easy? Last couple of weeks, I’ve been mellowing out over a Jack Daniels and lime checking out the […]
A caring organisation is finding homes for abandoned babies, writes Aaron Nicodemus Ten years ago, the maternity ward at Pietermaritzburg’s Edendale hospital was overflowing with abandoned babies. At one stage it was caring for 64 infants. They lived three or four to a crib and received barely adequate medical care. They were unwanted and unloved. […]