No image available
/ 1 September 2006
If there is a silver lining to last week’s 45-26 defeat by the All Blacks it is that Springbok coach Jake White has recognised the need for a total overhaul. This week’s line-up to play New Zealand near Rustenburg contains five changes and a positional switch. If you wanted to be hypercritical you might argue that White has not been severe enough in his pruning.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
I first took notice of Andre Agassi during the 1988 French Open, a tournament I particularly remember as it coincided with my last meaningful attempt to get fit. I’d installed an exercise bicycle in front of the telly so I could watch tennis while I pedalled my way to nowhere.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
The competition to see who can slather Bob Dylan’s 32nd studio album with the most deranged praise known to man is hotting up, writes Alexis Petridis.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
Mvelaphanda Group has advised shareholders that headline earnings per ordinary share for the year ended June 30 2006 are expected to be up approximately 125% to between 315 cents per ordinary share and 325 cents per ordinary share from the previous comparable period.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
In Hollywood movies, a single plot twist is no longer considered sufficient: the first surprise is the down payment on a more amazing revelation. Off-screen events now follow the same logic: Mel Gibson’s drunk, anti-Semitic rant simply began the widening of eyes that now gape fully with the news that Viacom-Paramount is abandoning its production […]
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
Lloyd Gedye attends a perfomance by The Hellphones and ends up feeling cheated.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
Branford Marsalis, McCoy Mrubata, Greg Georgiades and Paul Hanmer may not have planned things this way. But as sometimes happens in the Republic of Bohemia, they find themselves firmly the focus of debate at dinner tables, where conversation revolves around the question: What is jazz? Marsalis took Sunday Times journalist Bongani Madondo to task for […]
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
Zachary Guiles knew he was being provocative when he showed up for school two years ago in a T-shirt that accused George Bush of being a war-mongering draft-dodger, a drunkard and a drug addict. What the 13-year-old may not have realised was that he would provoke a major free-speech battle that culminated this week in a court victory.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
Only governments can effectively deliver services like health and education to the poorest, development group Oxfam said in a report on Friday critical of groups like the World Bank for hindering poverty programmes by pushing private-sector solutions.
No image available
/ 1 September 2006
Hope and despair coexist in the rubble of Bint Jbeil, the southern Lebanese town that saw some of the fiercest fighting of the war between Israel and the Hezbollah Shiite militia. ”Of course it will rebuild, sooner or later,” says Ali Hassan Bazzi (45) who stopped by the damaged shop of his friend Mohammed Bazzi (32).