Jacques Kallis admitted on Sunday that becoming South Africa’s highest Test run-getter to date was an achievement he thought might be beyond him when he was a youngster. He now has 7 313 runs, passing Gary Kirsten as his country’s most successful batsman.
The Jackson trial pollutes everything it touches: Peter Pan, motherhood, circus elephants–above all, American justice. One presumes the man (man?) is innocent. But does anyone think that even if guilty, and the convicted monster of Neverland spends the rest of his days banged up in a cell with a tattooed biker, any child in southern California will be safer? John Sutherland reports.
<i>Batho pele</i> (putting people first); <i>motho kemotho kabatho</i> (a human being is a human being because of others); ubuntu … admirable words, fine concepts, but meaningless in a society apparently devoid of capacity, compassion or concern. How many people have the energy or the means, asks Pat Schwartz, to fight a callous and careless bureaucracy?
"After a somewhat neurotic start, the local mini-series, <i>Hard Copy</i>, has settled into its scaffolding and now ranks in the very short list of worthy productions to have emanated from SABC television. It’s economically shot and scripted, The characters resolve authentically and maintain their individuality", writes Robert Kirby.
More than a decade after apartheid was brought to an end, South Africa still basks in the glow of that political achievement. On the economic front, however, there is considerable anxiety about unemployment in the country. Official statistics put the country’s unemployment rate at 26,2%, but union leaders say it may well top 40%.
Armed with stun guns and large nets, officials will be out on the streets of the Indian capital this week as the capital gets tough in its mission to eradicate stray cattle. New Delhi’s rampaging cow population has become so big that the High Court has issued city authorities with a one-week ultimatum to clear the streets.
We, the ”original buppies”, got through high school, with my younger sister, Rirhandzu, and me attending the Deutsche Schule, first in Johannesburg and later in Pretoria. We had grown up in Germany and were highly sought after by the German school as they sought to deracialise it. Anyhow, growing up in Germany from the age of five (not in exile), I near lost my real mother tongue, but never my ear for a good story.
Two veiled women opened fire on a bus carrying foreign tourists and the fiance of one of the woman blew himself up when he leaped off a bridge during a police chase in the Egyptian capital, Cairo, on Saturday. Seven people were hurt by the explosion, three Egyptians, an Israeli couple, a Swedish man and an Italian woman.
The Stormers slumped to their third consecutive Super 12 defeat as they went down 37-34 to the Chiefs at Newlands on Saturday evening. The Chiefs played an expansive game from the outset and had the Stormers rattled with their big outside backs.
Orlando Pirates retained their lead at the top of the PSL log when they fought back to a 1-1 draw against Kaizer Chiefs in a pulsating Soweto derby match before a capacity 80 000 crowd at FNB Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Emmanuel ”Scara” Ngobese came in from midfield in the opening minutes to first-time a deflection home just inside the goal area to put Chiefs up 1-0 for half-time.