TUESDAY, 11.15AM FORMER Burkina Faso national soccer coach Frenchman Philippe Troussier confirmed on Monday that he is to coach Bafana Bafana in the World Cup finals, following calls for caretaker coach Jomo Sono to stay on as the South African soccer coach. “It has been confirmed to me 100% that I will take over as […]

MONDAY, 1.00PM: THE 35-year-old United States embargo on arms trade with South Africa has been ended by an agreement between South African Deputy President Thabo Mbeki and US Vice-President Al Gore. The embargo opens the door to SA’s purchase of the JAS 39 Gripen jet fighter manufactured by Swedish company Saab and British Aeropace. Any […]

MONDAY 10:15AM OVERWHELMING support from the public and Bafana Bafana team members may force Jomo Sono and the South African Football Association to review their coaching deal. The South Africans, who returned home to a heroes’ welcome at the Johannesburg airport on Sunday, were all in favour of Sono staying on as coach. Bafana Bafana […]

MONDAY, 1.30PM SWAZILAND’S Paul Friedlander beat American Scott Dunlap on the second hole of their sudden-death play-off to win the Stenham Royal Swazi Sun Open on Sunday With near-perfect weather conditions for the third and final round of the lightning-shortened tournament, both players parred the 18th at the first hole of the sudden death. Both […]

MONDAY, 1.30PM THE South African cycling team that will return home from Malaysia on Wednesday can boast that they are one of the most successful combinations ever to compete internationally. Thanks to Andrew McLean, who survived a potentially disastrous mechanical problem on the last stage of the Tour de Lankawi on Sunday, the South Africans […]

MONDAY, 6.00PM: GOLD shares dominated the day’s events on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange on Monday, climbing with unusual energy as the gold price continued to rise towards the $300 an ounce level. Merger speculation helped financials, while industrials followed hopes that the new Reserve Bank repo rate will start at 15%, down from the current […]

Janet Smith If you’re thinking of sharing your copies of Seymore Butts Meets the Pleasure Girls and Sluts and Angels in Budapest with your coterie of fellow porn-lovers, think twice. The South African Police Services (SAPS) in Port Elizabeth – which had obviously had enough of pornography being peddled with scant regard for the law […]

Pat McDermott Cricket The nagging thought about the Pakistan team at present embroiled in the second Test against South Africa at Kingsmead is whether their captain Rashid Latif really wants to play or not. Again on the sidelines, as he was during the controversy-racked and rain-sodden abortive opening encounter in the three-Test series at the […]

FRIDAY 12:30PM AMERICANS Bruce Vaughan and Scott Dunlap led the charge on seven-under-par 65 at the end of the first round of the R500 000 Royal Swazi Sun Open. Both golfers, who were later matched by resident Swazi pro Paul Friedlander, took full advantage of preferred lies, minimal rough and near-perfect weather to open up […]

Janet Smith On show in Pretoria A young man looking forward to getting his first job phoned famed Mexican architect and photographer Oscar Hagerman to tell him a wonderful story. He had never forgotten the day when Hagerman came to his village and took his picture – a portrait of a beloved and beautiful child […]