The Hyundai Matrix 1,6 is, I suppose, big brother to the Getz. It has plenty of guts on the freeway, it’s nippy in mid-town traffic, and a piece of cake to park, writes Sharon Gill.
BMW has finally ended months of rumour and speculation by releasing pictures and some specifications of their first real superbike. The K1200 S will deliver over 120 kW, so it should be a real flyer.
The trade union movement last week celebrated the assurance by Minister of Public Enterprises Alec Erwin that the wholesale sell-off of state-owned assets was off the menu and that labour would in future be consulted on the restructuring of state enterprises. However, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) remained wary of aspects of Erwin’s watershed speech in Parliament.
The completion of the first phase of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project was celebrated with a colourful shindig in the fresh mountain air of the Lesotho mountains in mid-March. <i>Earthyear</i> asks what is the legacy it leaves behind?
You want fan-song? Lovely fan-song, very clean? Hey, GI, five dorrar I give you long time fan-song, only five Merican dorrar. It sounds rude but not a little intriguing, some manner of red-light-district pork dish served on a bed of rice and cheap perfume. But then the music starts, and the hyphen falls away like orchid petals in the first gusts of a monsoon. Ugly and depressing, the fan song squawks to life, and sport settles a few inches deeper into the muck.
The battle for precious places in the 2006 World Cup in Germany and the African Cup of Nations in Egypt in the same year continues in earnest as Bafana Bafana take on a wounded Ghana in Kumasi on Sunday. The South African national team will be hosted by the Black Stars in the second game of a series that serves as qualifiers for both 2006 tournaments.
For David Beckham, it’s personal. When was it ever any other way? “Nothing will defeat me,” he said before the Euro 2004 game against Switzerland, reflecting on the penalty kick saved by Fabien Barthez. England had been on the verge of winning the match with France that they eventually lost, but the captain is ready to try again from 12m if the occasion arises.
The Australian firebrand Lleyton Hewitt breaks a long silence to talk about his running war with the men who run tennis, his fears over drugs, and why he is desperate to win Wimbledon again.
While many South African rugby fans are popping champagne corks in celebration of the return of Percy Montgomery to the Springbok side. But it is the resurgence of Os du Randt, not the return of Montgomery, they should be celebrating.
A number of first division and premier soccer club referees and club officials were arrested early on Friday morning in police raids following allegations of soccer match fixing, police said on Friday. Police spokesperson Director Sally de Beer said the operation, codenamed Dribble, kicked off at 2am on Friday morning.