RUGBY: Jon Swift YOU can hardly blame the average rugby supporter for=20 being a bit confused about the future of the game. On the one hand, you have the International Rugby Board=20 (IRB), which meets in Paris next month to attempt to=20 sort out — among a host of things — the=20 dissatisfaction among the […]
CRICKET: Jon Swift KRISH MACKERDHUJ and the United Cricket Board (UCB) he=20 heads are faced with a problem shared with the majority=20 of nations in the cricket-playing world. It is simply this: how to fill the empty stands over=20 five long days of a Test match. “People had become too=20 used to the one-day game […]
The Mail & Guardian recently wrote to cabinet ministers asking an innocuous question. The replies, or lack of them, were rather enlightening … Minister of Public Enterprises Stella Sigcau is the winner of the Mail & Guardian’s first Cabinet Efficiency Test (CET). The CET was conducted to measure the speed and competence with which cabinet […]
Anne Eveleth A northern KwaZulu/Natal Crime Intelligence Service officer admitted knowledge of Stratcom (Strategic Communications) under oath in the Ladysmith Regional Court this week. Ladysmith CIS commander Colonel Rowan Hendricks was testifying under cross-examination by defence attorney Colin Heads in the trial of five right wingers alleged to have plotted to poison water supplies in […]
The Currie Cup is wide open and the provincial teams=20 have made some interesting changes in their quest for=20 RUGBY: Jon Swift ANYONE who thought that in the afterglow of the World=20 Cup this season’s Currie Cup competition would have all=20 the attributes of flat beer, missed the mark by a wide=20 The surprise sparkle […]
Leon Perlman Despite Post and Telecommunications Minister Pallo=20 Jordan’s nyet to allowing competition with state=20 telecommunications monopoly Telkom, insiders say it’s=20 now not a matter of whether, but rather when and how=20 The recently released Green Paper on Telecommunications=20 is the initial step to formulating a White Paper on=20 telecommunications policy and eventual legislation,=20 which […]
RUGBY: Frankie Deges IT WAS as a result of the vision of a handful of=20 administrators from Argentina, New Zealand, Australia=20 and South Africa (ANZASA) that the inaugural Under-21=20 southern hemisphere tournament was born. Argentina, the instigator of the idea, was given the=20 go-ahead to stage the first event and, midway through=20 it, the concept […]
‘Papa’ de Klerk is the hero of the National Party youth. Marion Edmunds attended their weekend conference and found a vibrant, energetic collection of New Nats ‘You’re simply the best,” screamed Tina Turner as National Party leader, “Papa” de Klerk, stepped off the stage into the arms of excited members of the Jeug Aksie. Bodyguards […]
Leon Perlman reports=20 on Telkom’s new range=20 of high-tech services State telecommunications monopoly, Telkom, is discovering the=20 joys of high-tech innovation and marriage with the=20 Reconstruction and Development Programme. But it had to be=20 dragged to the altar. Swiftnet, formed last month to run the FastNet service, is touted=20 by Telkom insiders as the beginning […]
Some commentators see the current crisis in the National Party as a sign that it is on its last legs, reports Gaye Davis SCENTING blood, the pundits have been quick as piranhas in pouncing on the National Party. As it thrashes about in new, uncharted political waters, analysts have set to dissecting it, stripping it […]