As I write this, Father’s Day is drawing to a close and I can’t help but think how different it all could have been if I’d had access to Audi’s new S3 back in November 1974. Back then, I naively believed that taking up motorcycle racing would render me irresistible to sexually unfulfilled young women, writes Gavin Foster.
You trundle along through your daily activities — drive to work, drive home, drive to gym, drive home — and you never really consider how much time you spend behind the steering wheel of your car. That is until you find a vehicle that’s not completely manic in nature, but stirs the senses enough to make you realise that it’s not about getting from Point A to Point B anymore.
As 4X4 wagons go, I’ve had two favourites for the past year or so. The Toyota Fortuner and GM’s Hummer H3 appeal to me because they offer acceptable comfort levels, genuine off-road capabilities and are relatively well-priced. Just about everything else is either too fancy and expensive to take into the bush, or inadequate for really serious use off-road, writes Gavin Foster.
On a stretch of white sand beach on an island off Germany, a massive complex intended as a Nazi holiday camp that has been steadily falling into disrepair is set for a new lease of life. More than 70 years since construction began on the vast Prora complex on the picturesque island of Ruegen, plans are being drawn up to turn one of the imposing dormitory blocks into a 500-bed youth hostel, with every room to have a view of the Baltic Sea.
The third round of the Currie Cup played over the weekend has left many teams with more questions than answers. Western Province and the Valke will reflect on their results and wonder what they have to do to resurrect their Currie Cup campaigns.
About 260 000 workers in the metal and engineering sector are due to launch a strike on Monday over a wage dispute, unions said on Sunday. The open-ended strike will affect more than 9 000 firms, including Bell Equipment and the Scaw Metals Group.
A Pakistani Special Forces commander was killed after coming under heavy fire from militants holed up inside the Red Mosque in Islamabad early on Sunday. Islamist rebels shot Lieutenant Colonel Haroon Islam and another soldier as they laid bombs along the perimeter wall of the besieged mosque at 1.30am.
United States President George Bush’s hopes for making progress with his Iraq strategy suffered a double blow when there was an upsurge in violence over the weekend. Twenty-three Iraqi army recruits were killed on Sunday the day after a truck bomb killed 150 people in Armili.
Second seeds Cara Black of Zimbabwe and Liezel Huber of South Africa won their second Wimbledon women’s doubles title in three years defeating Slovenian Katarina Srebotnik and Japan’s Ai Sugiyama on Sunday. The African pair came from a set down to win 3-6 6-3 6-2 and capture their second grand slam title of the year.
South Korean KJ Choi captured his second title in the last five weeks with a three-stroke victory at the Tiger Woods invitational tournament on a sweltering Sunday at the Congressional Country Club. Choi steadied himself after a shaky mid-round stretch when he bogeyed the 10th, 11th and 13th.