There can be little doubt which of the FA Cup finalists is feeling more confident. Twenty-four hours after Manchester United lost at home to Chelsea, Arsenal gave an awesome reminder that they can play a brand of football unmatched by anyone. Everton — the fourth best team in the land, remember — were lucky to lose by seven.
National chairperson of the Inkatha Freedom Party Ziba Jiyane has lashed out at party members who are ”fighting to undermine” him, and has branded the IFP youth brigade’s recent attack on him as ”a pack of lies”. This is the latest salvo in an acrimonious leadership tussle plaguing the party.
The African National Congress is aiming to return disgraced Northern Cape provincial chairperson John Block to the provincial legislature — despite the fact that police are investigating him for fraud and corruption. The ANC provincial executive recently decided to rehabilitate Block.
Star Trek: Enterprise is about to go where it has never gone before: off the air, taking the Star Trek franchise with it. After the two-hour finale airs on Friday, this will be the first time in 18 years that no first-run Trek series is on United States TV.
Barbara Ludman reviews <i>Autobiography of a Geisha</i>, which traces the life of a well known Japanese geisha and how she perfected the craft of being a hostess.
Antohny Egan admits that he was sceptical about Michael Morris’s <i>EVERY STEP OF THE WAY: The Journey to Freedom</i> in South Africa especially as a kid brought up under apartheid.
If there hasn’t been a pronounced swagger as South Africa has marched around the Caribbean, there have at least been signs of purpose and direction. Winning the Test series with a game in hand and the one-dayers with two matches to spare is as much as anyone could have asked.
The Competition Commission on Thursday approved a joint venture between fuel companies Sasol, Engen and Petronas, despite the possibility of the transaction reducing competition in the petroleum industry. This merger involves a share-for-share exchange agreement in which the companies will form a joint venture named Uhambo Oil, the commission said.
Woody Allen, the man who has done more than anyone to dramatise and glamourise the loves, lives and, above all, the neuroses of New Yorkers, has transferred his allegiances from Manhattan to London. Allen, whose latest film, Match Point, premiered at the Cannes film festival on Thursday, professed himself utterly enchanted with British actors.
A Sicilian man has been ordered to pay damages to his ex-wife for not telling her before they were married that he was impotent. The couple, identified only by their first names, Stefano and Cristina, were married in church without ever having had sex.