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/ 10 February 2006
What is it about the Newcastle United manager’s job, filled until relatively recently by Willie McFaul, Jim Smith and other domestic gaffers, which has become so overblown that the club’s chairman, Freddy Shepherd, can describe the St James’ Park vacancy as ”one of the biggest in world football”?
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/ 10 February 2006
Spring is nearly sprung. Europe is beginning to blossom. Blimey, even the flimsy Swiss pansy known as the Uefa Cup looks attractive after a long, dark winter of England’s Chelsea flower show. Yup, the last 32 will fight it out for Europe’s not-quite-good-enough cup next week, with Bolton and Middlesbrough to the fore for England.
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/ 10 February 2006
Thirty-seven years ago, after suffering a massive heart attack, Walter da Silva, arguably the most lethal goal-scorer in South African soccer history, was given a 25% chance of survival by the staff at the old Johannesburg General hospital in Hillbrow. He made a near-miraculous recovery and continued playing. Da Silva speaks to Sy Lerman.
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/ 10 February 2006
The Super 14 begins this weekend with a little more of a whimper than a bang and none of the South African franchises has yet signed the participation agreement for the competition. Crisis? What crisis? This is merely business as usual for the game of rugby union in this country.
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/ 10 February 2006
Korean KJ Choi set the pace early on the second day of the ,1-million Johnnie Walker Classic on Friday, racing to a four-shot lead after the morning rounds. The former powerlifter shot four birdies on the back nine and two on the front to come in at six-under par 66, making him 13-under after two rounds at The Vines Resort and Country Club.
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/ 10 February 2006
Police arrested two South African nationals trying to leave Afghanistan’s main airport with two kilograms of heroin hidden in a photo album, an official said on Friday. The men, carrying doctored South African passports, were trying to fly to China on Thursday, airport police chief Aminaullah Khan told Agence France-Presse.
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/ 10 February 2006
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Complaints by Ukhozi FM listeners had led to the withdrawal from its playlist of a song expressing support for former deputy president Jacob Zuma, the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) said on Thursday. ”Zuma is facing serious charges of corruption and rape. Nobody is entitled to state an unqualified fact that he is guilty or innocent,” said SABC chief executive Dali Mpofu.
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/ 10 February 2006
The Zimbabwe government has rejected a call by the country’s mainly white farming union for an end to land invasions, describing a statement by the Commercial Farmers’ Union as ”hogwash”, the state-controlled Herald reported on Friday. Agriculture Minister Joseph Made said white farmers were ”dreaming” and ”unrepentant”, the paper said.
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/ 10 February 2006
My friend’s son is currently rooting round the base of the great ruck of human knowledge as questing, purposeful and generally terrier-like as Matt Dawson. No sooner has one question been recycled than in he goes again, burrowing for second-, third-, fourth- and fifth-phase explanation. On Sunday we all went for a walk. ”Are you looking forward to the Winter Olympics?” my friend’s son asked me.
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/ 10 February 2006
Boksburg’s ”Erin Brockovich” has effectively stopped the building of an allegedly illegal petrol station in a listed wetland after Sasol, the main investor in the development, pulled out of the project. But Nicole Barlow, a medical representative from the East Rand town, is still being hauled before the high court by the developers for ”harassment”.