Award-winning author K Sello Duiker died before his third novel made it on to the shelves. This is an excerpt from <i>The Hidden Star</i> (Umuzi), his final story, published posthumously.
Disabled South African swimmer Natalie du Toit smashed the amputee world record in the 50m freestyle twice in a day at the Commonwealth Games on Friday. Du Toit broke her own record with a new best of 29,32 seconds in the morning semifinal and then smashed it again with 29,27 in winning the night final.
In 1994, when it became clear that local book and publishing needs were changing, Annari van der Merwe started Kwela Books for Nasionale Pers. She speaks to ZA@Play.
Alex Sudheim speaks to John van de Ruit about the runaway success of his debut novel, <i>Spud</i>.
Jose Mourinho never spoke a truer word than when he claimed, after Chelsea’s exit from the Champions League in Barcelona, that at the highest level of football details can make a big difference. What he meant was that the detail of Asier del Horno being incorrectly sent off in the first leg had handicapped Chelsea unfairly.
Philippe Senderos, the young Arsenal defender, has been thrown in the deep end this season, and he’s learned to swim the hard way, writes Jon Brodkin. As Senderos headed home with one of Zinedine Zidane’s shirts earlier this month, he knew it had been a special night.
The JSE reversed its earlier losses by midday on Friday and was trading in the black, helped by gains in the resources and platinum-mining indices. By noon, the all-share index was up 0,78%, while the all-share industrials were 0,54% higher. Resources added 1,03% and the platinum-mining index was 1,35% better.
Jose Mourinho and his team were told by the boss exactly what was expected of them. The full scale of Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich’s win-at-all-costs philosophy will be unveiled to us in the off-season. For those involved at Stamford Bridge, I’m reliably informed it has already happened.
The performances of South African teams in the Super 14 are no reason to write off the Springboks. It is traditionally about now that we start to worry about the Springboks. A bunch of misfiring South African Super 14 teams and a host of glittering antipodean stars make pessimists of us all.
An international piracy watchdog on Friday warned of fresh attacks off Somalia after heavily armed pirates fired on a United Nations food aid ship. ”About five pirates armed with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades tried to hijack the UN-chartered ship,” said Noel Choong, head of the Piracy Reporting Centre of the London-based International Maritime Bureau.