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/ 25 November 2005
Elections to a new Senate in Zimbabwe this weekend appear to have sounded the death knell for a party that posed the stiffest challenge to President Robert Mugabe’s rule. The elections have exposed deep divisions in the opposition Movement for Democratic Change party and chances of two feuding factions reconciling have grown slimmer in the run-up to Saturday’s polls.
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/ 25 November 2005
When, after the fall of Saddam Hussein, brothers Saad and Ibrahim left their family home in the leafy middle-class Baghdad neighbourhood of Karada for the first time in two decades, they promptly got lost. After all, things had changed quite a bit over the 23 years that the al-Qaisi brothers had spent hidden away from Saddam’s secret services in a small upstairs room.
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/ 25 November 2005
Sexual pressure from male political colleagues is a daily reality, woman MPs complained recently. They also said that ”traditional” sexual attitudes among certain male politicians added to the pressures. The abuse of political position for sex is among the many taboo issues thrown up by the rape allegations against Jacob Zuma.
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/ 25 November 2005
Protesters sang pro-Gauteng songs as they arrived at a public hearing about provincial boundary demarcations in Carletonville on Friday. They had come to town by bus from nearby Khutsong, where the issue has been the focus of recent violent protest.
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/ 25 November 2005
Arjan de Zeeuw is smarter than your average Premiership footballer, as Prime Minister Tony Blair might have been aware when he named him as a favourite player a couple of weeks ago. He is enjoying himself so much that the central defender is putting his real career on hold, he tells Paul Wilson.
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/ 25 November 2005
Tuesday’s was a game that had potentially disastrous ramifications for Alex Ferguson. An early departure from the Champions League would not just have wounded his pride, it might also have wreaked havoc on his chances of making it to a 20th anniversary at Manchester United.
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/ 25 November 2005
When Sir Francis Drake hove into view of the south-western appendix of our great land, hyperbole was inevitable. No doubt ankle-deep in Elizabethan upchuck, his britches starched by pig fat and a robust bout of dysentery, his bodkin cruelly ravaged by months of salty air and now nothing more than a rusty tool dangling between his thighs, he was primed for rhetorical excess.
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/ 25 November 2005
Border cricket has been at the forefront of the United Cricket Board’s youth development programme since 1987 and is regarded as the best in the country. The programme provides schools and clubs with equipment every year in order to help them participate in their fixtures.
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/ 25 November 2005
When Corne Krige realised that his body was trying to tell him enough was enough, there was only one course of action. ”I have never conned a club in my life, and I wasn’t about to start now. Moreover, I didn’t want people whispering among themselves that I wasn’t the player I’d once been,” says Krige in his new autobiography.
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/ 25 November 2005
This weekend’s fixtures, Orlando Pirates versus Sundowns and United against Kaizer Chiefs, give Pretorians another opportunity to stick it further to their more illustrious, but currently beleaguered, Johannesburg rivals. The slight snag is that the protagonists in this drama cannot in all honesty describe theirs as a tale of two cities.