”The transfer market exists to teach managers humility. Even Jose Mourinho should feel chastened from time to time. Despite his public pronouncements, in his private moments, he might ask himself whether it really was essential to spend £8-million on Tiago, the midfielder offloaded to Lyon on Wednesday,” writes Kevin McCarra.
Michael Owen wants to go home. Real Madrid want him to go home. Newcastle simply want him and have offered a club record £16-million to end their Premiership drought. And in World Cup year, England’s leading goal-scorer finds himself in limbo.
Jane Taylor is an academic of note and only someone familiar with the world of academe would devise such an astonishing motive for a homicide, in her new novel <i>Of wild dogs</i>, writes Barbara Ludman.
After the Chinese herb mocrea in the 1990s and the African potato five years ago, moringa powder is the latest craze for Zimbabweans battling one of the world’s highest HIV/Aids infection rates. ”Do you want to feel well, have a healthy appetite and live longer?” a pamphlet on a supermarket noticeboard screams in bold print.
A new book, using hitherto untapped sources, reveals the truth behind the myth of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong, writes Michael Yahuda.
The sound of the Kwani Experience travels far beyond the concrete that spawned it. Their sound is clearly the progeny of a long list of South African innovators, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Hurricane Katrina pounded storm-wary Florida, killing at least three people, leaving about 1,5-million homes without power and collapsing a Miami highway overpass. Hours after the storm slammed ashore in densely populated southeastern Florida, its eye headed out to the Gulf of Mexico early on Friday, but howling winds and pounding rain still battered Miami.
Trade-union opposition is believed to have thrown a spanner in the works of an ambitious Public Investment Corporation (PIC) plan to transfer the remaining 3,3% of Telkom it was warehousing to 1,5-million government employees, <i>Business Day</i> reported on Friday. The PIC bought 15,1% of Telkom from the overseas Thintana group last year.
World number two platinum-miner Impala Platinum (Implats) on Friday reported a 9,9% increase in basic headline earnings per share for the year to June 2005 of 4 325 cents, from 3 924 cents in the group’s 2004 year. The group declared a final dividend per share of 1 800 cents.
The Springboks will play their final match of the 2005 Tri-Nations against New Zealand on Saturday. A win will give them back-to-back titles in the competition, something only achieved previously by their opponents. Defeat will almost certainly mean second place in the log, for no one in their right mind believes that in the current circumstances Australia can win in New Zealand a week later.