New Zealand, with one eye on the grand prize of next year’s rugby World Cup, are switching game plans to keep rival teams off the scent, assistant coach Wayne Smith said in Brisbane on Thursday. The All Blacks take on the Wallabies on Saturday, but rugby’s top-rated team is keen not to show too much in the countdown to the World Cup in France.
Get real, Mann. Director Michael Mann ushers Miami Vice into theatres on Friday promising a reality-based movie with the sort of raw grit and steamy sex that never would have played on the hit 1980s television show of the same name he helped create.
The Land Claims Court has ordered mining giant Anglo Platinum to return ancestral land to the Ga Mawela community in Limpopo, community representatives said on Wednesday. The ruling brought to a closure a five-year battle between the community and Anglo Platinum, said community lawyer Durkje Gilfillan.
With Toyota’s venerable Tazz having finally reached the end of the road, Fiat is taking aim at the 1Â 500 to 2Â 000 budget-car customers that will now be looking elsewhere for sound, basic transport each month. It has introduced the eCo, a low-spec version of its Palio.
Come on, admit it. There wasn’t a diesel car owner in the country who didn’t have a tear in his eye when Audi won the 2006 24 Hours of Le Mans in their diesel R10 sports car. After years of being condemned to use the leaky old diesel pump around the back of the service station, drivers of oil burners have finally earned the right to be accepted at all levels!
Honda’s newly launched Civic hatchback makes a refreshing departure from the norm, where the succeeding generation of virtually any model grows a little larger than the car it replaces, eventually leaving room at the bottom of the ladder for an all-new small car.
Israel on Wednesday suffered its worst day since the Lebanon conflict began when 14 of its soldiers were believed to have been killed in fighting with Hezbollah, a military calamity that could prove to be a turning point in the war. The setback appeared to unnerve Ehud Olmert, Israel’s Prime Minister. Less than a day after he had vowed to fight Hezbollah to the end, he spoke on Wednesday for a need for a quick end to the conflict.
Neil Sonnekus joins a voyeuristic audience to view <i>Two to Tango</i>.
Barok is elevating fabric with its wearable, hand-crafted items, writes Tisha Eetgerink.
Tumi Makgetla speaks to local fashion designer Jacques van der Watt about his spin-off label for Edgars.