places Andy Capostagno Golf The Alfred Dunhill PGA Championship returns to Houghton Golf Club in Johannesburg this week and, festive season ennui and geographical impossibilities notwithstanding, it marks the beginning of both the Vodacom Southern African and the Volvo European PGA Tours for 1999. This is the fourth year that the event has been co-sanctioned […]

Edward Helmore Dreams of riches from entertainment bonds, to be secured against future royalty earnings, seem to be turning to dust. Japanese investment house Nomura Securities has closed the entertainment securities division in which it put so much hope. Its flamboyant head, Ethan Penner, has been fired. His partner in the scheme, former Eagles manager […]

SOUTH Africa and Ghana recorded double victories as the two countries dominated the boys and girls singles events at the just ended International Tennis Federation junior circuit in Lagos. South Africa’s 18th-seeded junior Klassen Raven defeated compatriot Maleka Kabela 6-1, 6-2 to take the boys singles trophy. Raven later paired with Kaleba to defeat the […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Friday 9.45pm. SEVERAL hundred supporters of the radical Moslem organisation Qibla on Friday brought the centre of Cape Town to a standstill with an anti-Zionist march, but avoided a feared clash with police. The march, which police had vowed to stop, went ahead after Qibla won an urgent High Court […]

allegations Thokozani Mtshali A doctor in Piet Retief, Mpumalanga, has filed a charge with the police against faceless culprits who are spreading allegations that he injected patients with HIV-infected blood. The police believe the rumours were started by people who are jealous of Dr Phillip Pretorious’s thriving private practice. Pretorious (50) has laid a charge […]

RUN, BROTHER, RUN by Nola Turkington and Gillian Mathew (Human & Rousseau) Two young township boys, Sizwe and Thando, are inspired by the Comrades’ Marathon, and decide to organise their own fun run, with the unexpected help of their local ultra-marathon hero, Vuyo. This is the simple, lighthearted story of their efforts. Gillian Mathew has […]

Chiara Carter Several senior members of the New National Party are expected to announce their defection to the Democratic Party within a matter of days. They include three candidates on the NNP’s Western Cape list for the National Assembly, as well as several candidates for the province’s legislature. The DP is also expecting the defection […]

Salman Rushdie: A SECOND LOOK We are celebrating the 2 000th anniversary of the birth of Jesus Christ, as Catholic cardinals and believers of all stripes continually remind us. Never mind that this will put Jesus in the odd position of having two birthdays in the space of a week (Christmas Day as well as […]

Mungo Soggot The Northern Province has quietly started repaying most of the 92 000 pensions and disability grants it froze last year on the grounds it wanted to check recipients’ bona fides. The province’s decision to restart the pay-outs comes after it was hit with scores of lawsuits. These included a class action which asked […]

SOUTH Africa’s Elana Meyer became the first woman in the world to break the 67-minute mark for the half marathon as she clinched victory at the Tokyo City 21,1km on Friday morning. The Stellenbosch athlete set a world record at 66min 44sec in freezing 5 degrees Celsius conditions, beating Kenya’s Ester Winjiro by five seconds. […]