OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. KENYAN athletes dominated at the World Half Marathon Championships in Zurich on Sunday, with defending champion Tegla Loroupe and Paul Koech claiming the men’s and women’s titles, giving the nation a sweep of gold for the second year in a row. Loroupe covered the 21,1km course in 1:08:29 to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Monday 10.00am. GOLDEN Lions caretaker coach Johan Roux has wielded the axe by making eight changes to the team which last week was beaten 42-35 by Western Province, for Saturday’s Bankfin Currie Cup clash against Border in East London. Roux could not consider James Small, who is suffering from an ankle […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Libreville | Sunday 10.00am. THE Danish Minister for International Development, Paul Nielson, has warned African states with forces in the Democratic Republic of Congo that Copenhagen will cut off aid to them if a regional conflict ensues. “Should the countries involved get into a face-to-face confrontation my country will have no option but […]

President Nelson Mandela returned from his gruelling trip to the United States and Canada on Sunday.

Mike Finch Commonwealth Games South Africa’s track and field athletes returned home from the Commonwealth Games on Tuesday clutching 11 medals – their biggest haul at a major event since returning to the international scene in 1993. Unfortunately, only one of the medallists was black. Olympic 800m runner Hezekiel Sepeng, almost a veteran member of […]

Donna Block: Share World Until very recently Greece was considered Europe’s basket case economy, with huge public debt, an antiquated labour market, an enormous bureaucracy and a state sector reminiscent of the old Soviet bloc in its inefficiency and corruption. But signs are that the poorest country in the European Union is getting its act […]

Khareen Pech A right-wing millionaire linked to weapons cartels and rebel armies in Africa is at the forefront of a bizarre plot to destabilise South Africa before the 1999 general elections. Former Civilian Co- operation Bureau (CCB) operative Johan Niemoeller is planning a fervent campaign he calls the “Fourth Boere Revolution” to “reimpose white Afrikaner […]

Peter Makarube Live in Johannesburg They said jazz is dead but we have yet to see the coffin. With the establishment of the South African Jazz Foundation comes ample proof that the hippest art form is still alive – and well. At a recent media launch, held at the Hyatt hotel, the foundation was introduced […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby Everybody said it wouldn’t work and they were right, but it is still sad to see Dawie Snyman being shown the door for not taking the Golden Lions to the semi-finals of the Currie Cup. When Snyman was appointed last June it was widely believed that he had been brought up from […]