Mahluli Mngadi : In your ear Is Fine Music Radio (FMR) just a cosy club for white classical musical lovers masquerading as a community radio station? Station manager Leslie McKenzie vehemently disagrees. He tells me about the ”more handsome, genuine, less automatic sound” that FMR has been striving for. He quotes the station’s mission statement […]
The transistor was invented 50 years ago. Joanna Bawa reports on the significance of the device There were only nine days to go to Christmas but the two physicists had other things on their minds. Huddled secretively in a corner of their laboratory, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain were building a primitive device whose impact […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: WAYNE FERREIRA and Amanda Coetzer came a step closer to reaching the finals of the Hopman Cup in Perth, Australia, on Wednesday. The third-seeded South Africans defeated Germany 2-1 at Burswood Dome Coetzer and Ferreira trampled Anke Huber and Tommy Haas 6-2 6-2 after the singles honours had been shared. Huber, who is […]
IN BRIEF PUPIL DEMOS OVER MATRIC The Congress of South African Students (Cosas) plans to picket businesses, private schools and government offices at the end of the month in protest at the poor matric results. The protests will support a Cosas demand that businesses help to sponsor schools, and to object to the continued government […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: MAMELODI Sundowns can consider themselves unlucky after their goalless draw against Kaizer Chiefs in a premier league match at Odi stadium on Wednesday evening. Sundowns outplayed the Amakhosi in difficult conditions after rain had threatened to ruin the game. Downs were hoping to avenge their their 2-3 penalty defeat by Chiefs in the […]
THURSDAY, 6.00PM: IT has emerged that President Nelson Mandela overruled truth commission legislation guidelines to ensure that apartheid president PW Botha’s legal team was paid almost double the going rate for representing a potential witness. Justifying the decision this week, Justice Minister Dullah Omar said: “Mr Botha is a former head of state of South […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: LANCE KLUSENER may face the first ball in Friday’s one-day match against New Zealand in Brisbane after Adam Bacher’s poor performance recently as opening bat. Klusener will probably open in place of Bacher, who will again be overlooked for the shortened game. Captain Hansie Cronje has indicated that the changes might be made […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE West Indies A touring team nearly got it right in the third and final one-day international against SA A at the Wanderers last night before rain wrecked their chances. Jimmy Adams and his men had the SA A team reeling at 108/7 in the 20th over after they had scored 187/7 in […]
THURSDAY, 12.30PM: THE four regional teams competing in this year’s Super 12 will be much stronger than the provincial sides of the past, SA Rugby Football Union CE Riaan Oberholzer said on Wednesday. Springbok coach Nick Mallett, Oberholzer, and the four regional coaches met at Newlands in Cape Town on Wednesday to discuss and plan […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM: ZIMBABWE face a formidable challenge as Sri Lanka opener Marvan Atapattu scored a career-best 223 that helped the home side to declare at a comfortable 469 for nine on the second day on Thursday. Problems for the Zimbabweans were compounded when Sri Lankan spin duo Jayantha Silva and Muttiah Muralitharan plucked a wicket […]