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/ 23 January 2005
Among the Wasp community last week’s presidential exoneration of the Extremely Reverend Allan Boesak has been received with a mixture of dismay and its subsidiary affection, Inverse Schadenfreude — a pleasurable sensation, permeating you with the warmth that always comes with knowing that your scepticisms are being fortified.
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/ 23 January 2005
The SABC’s newsreader purred like a pussycat when she announced last year that the government was giving itself a Christmas present: nine military transport Airbuses at a cost of R1-billion each. The tone of the report was celebratory. The soundbite was from the contracting minister, public enterprise’s Alec Erwin, who praised the deal.
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/ 23 January 2005
Tyrene Arendse scored a brace to steer log-leaders Orlando Pirates to a well-deserved 3-2 victory over Lamontville Golden Arrows in the Premier Soccer League match at Johannesburg Stadium on Saturday night. The Soweto giants equalled an unbeaten record of 17 league games.
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/ 23 January 2005
US President George W Bush has reinforced the message of his inaugural address by saying that he believed the American people had given him a mandate to spread freedom around the world. Though he called the act of swearing his inauguration oath on the Bible a ‘humbling experience’, Bush gave every sign that he is intent on a radical second term.
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/ 23 January 2005
South Africa’s number one amateur Matthew Kent announced on Saturday that he would join the paid ranks with his professional debut in the Dimension Data Pro-Am at Sun City next week. Only hours after being named South Africa’s number one amateur for the second year running at the 2005 BMW Golf Digest Awards, the 17-year old from Cape Town confirmed his decision.
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/ 23 January 2005
Four South Africans topped the leaderboard after the third round of the South African Airways Open golf championship at the Durban Country Club. Tim Clark, Titch Moore, Hendrik Buhrmann and Tjaart van der Walt will all go into Sunday’s final round on nine-under 207’s.
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/ 23 January 2005
Legislation on transformation in sport would be a ”last resort”, says the sports ministry. The ministry was reacting to the Parliament’s sport portfolio committee announcement that the ANC component of the committee intended pushing for a law to compel sports federations and even schools to achieve representativity.
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/ 23 January 2005
Inkatha Freedom party leader Mangosuthu Buthelezi has challenged KwaZulu-Natal premier Sbu Ndebele to ”assert, affirm, recognise and protect” his ”Zuluness”. Buthelezi, who is also the so-called ”traditional prime minister” of the Zulus, said the ”Zulu nation” had reached a crucial point.
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/ 23 January 2005
The Scorpions have a new sting in their tail with the appointment of advocate Vusumzi Patrick Pikoli as National Director of Public Prosecutions. The appointment, announced on Friday evening, was welcomed by the opposition Democratic Alliance because ”he is not a high profile ANC politician”.