MONDAY, 2.30PM: ZIMBABWEAN opener Grant Flower scored his first century in one-day cricket to take Zimbabwe to an imposing total of 281 for six in their third and final one-day international against Sri Lanka in Colombo on Monday. Flower, who was dropped twice by Sanath Jayasuriya on two and 18, made full use of his […]

MONDAY, 12.30PM: SOUTH Africa’s Under-19 cricket team may well be through to the final of the MTN Under-19 World Cup, if they can beat Sri Lanka. The tenacious South Africans beat New Zealand by five wickets at Newlands on Sunday after being set a target of 195. South Africa were, however, put under quite a […]

yet Fusion energy and self-driving cars are just two of the possible spin-offs from space exploration, write Tim Radford and David Rowan In 1945, Arthur C Clarke wrote to Wireless World with a proposal for communications satellites in geostationary orbit, and it must have seemed like a fairy tale. In 1957 the Russians launched Sputnik […]

Steve Morris: Rugby It is an inevitable consequence of the continuing struggle this nation is having with the concept of joining the rest of the world and allowing the free flow of ideas and innovations, that this would be mirrored in the South African obsession for sporting activity. It is also understandable that the triumphs […]

Andy Duffy Pollsmoor prison in the Western Cape has gone on alert following police reports that gangster Rashied Staggie is planning to get into the jail to confront and possibly kill inmate and rival gang leader Jacky Lonte. It is understood that the prison’s management has drawn up plans with the Department of Correctional Services […]

Charl Blignaut : Cultural sushi Oysters are not likely to be on the menu at Independent Newspapers functions after a typically off-the-cuff (read foot-in-mouth) remark from Gauteng Newspapers MD Deon du Plessis. The Big Boer, as he is affectionately known among staff, apparently suggested at an Independent meeting held to discuss the future of the […]

Just the suggestion of producing an Afrikaans film with an all-white cast in South Africa in 1998 is enough to make a boardroom of grown businessmen burst into uncontollable laughter. “Nee hartjie,” said the men in suits to film-maker Katinka Heyns when she was doing the circuit to find financial backers for her latest project, […]

Neil Manthorp: Cricket Contradictions are an integral part of cricket. Without them, the game would be baseball … or something. The three-legged finals of the World Series, beginning on Friday at the MCG between South Africa and Australia, have been preceded by the strangest contradiction of the tour so far. It is this: 1 Hansie […]

Andy Duffy Awaiting-trial prisoners are being held at CMax, raising fresh concerns about the rules prison officials follow before putting people into the controversial hi- tech jail. At least 10 suspects have been placed in the maximum security unit since Christmas, and police have played an influential role in the decision to use CMax to […]

Lynda Gledhill At times this week it seemed as though the paint peeling off the walls was moving faster than justice inside the Johannesburg Magistrate’s Court. There was nothing that could be done to stop the additional delays in court processes brought on by prosecutors’ refusal to work overtime. Defence attorneys, who at the beginning […]