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/ 20 February 2005
Marcello Burricks grew up fast in Cape Town’s tough Slangkop township. Stabbed in a fight at eight, by 14 he had a criminal record for assaulting a teacher. Golden Mgedeza came from an equally rough area, Johannesburg’s Kwathema township, where he dodged bullets from gangster gun battles at school.
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/ 20 February 2005
So you missed the Prickly Pear Festival in the Western Cape last month but worry not, there’s a whole 10 months of local festivals and events to choose from. From the Philippolis Witblits Festival to the Calvinia Vleisfees, we’ve lined up some of your more interesting options.
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/ 20 February 2005
With the exception of the men’s long race, South African athletes made a clean sweep at the ninth Cross Country Championships of Africa’s southern region at Candos Hill, Mauritius, on Saturday. The races, contested in heavy rain on a muddy course, posed a true obstacle test for the runners of seven countries.
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/ 20 February 2005
Australia’s high-profile Test spinner Shane Warne said on Sunday he left the country to save his marriage after an affair with a local stripper. Test cricket’s leading wicket-taker told a television interviewer he was embarrassed by the affair in 2003 and fled to Spain with his wife to escape the media spotlight.
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/ 20 February 2005
It is noon in Cullinan, near Pretoria, and the Whispering Oaks restaurant is bustling in preparation for the arrival of a bus-load of international tourists. Cullinan locals like to boast that the famous Big Hole is smaller than the 100-year-old crater of its Premier Diamond Mine. Cullinan’s appeal lies in the glitter of its multi-faceted past.
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/ 20 February 2005
If you didn’t take a Sho’t Left last year, the good news is there’s a chance for redemption with the launch last week of South African Tourism’s new R20-million campaign, Sho’t Left 2. Billed as bigger and better, the campaign aims to encourage an emerging market of more than six million South Africans to holiday in Msanzi more often by promoting affordable packages and organised tours.
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/ 20 February 2005
If Australia’s cities had to line up for a beauty contest, Brisbane would walk it. Brisbane has basically everything you could ask of a city, without the crushing numbers. The river setting is gorgeous, the vegetation, all palms and frangipani. The food’s great, the people friendly and real estate prices are the best in a country where most properties are beyond the scope of the rand.
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/ 20 February 2005
Sharks turn out to be quite shy than dolphins. The water was almost as clear as air, yet only the tips of the coral pinnacles emerged from the depths of a seemingly bottomless ocean. We grabbed our snorkelling gear, and the dolphins swirled around us for ages. Four of them were locked in a bizarre dance. Taking a closer look, it became graphically obvious they were mating, undisturbed by our presence.
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/ 19 February 2005
Diego Forlan is a rare breed. The striker, signed in January 2002 amid much fanfare by Manchester United for £7,5-million from Independiente, who famously took 18 matches to score his first goal for the club, is making a success of his career after leaving Old Trafford. As Paul Ince, Andy Cole and others will tell you, that is not easy.
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/ 19 February 2005
An outgoing lawmaker and senior official in President Robert Mugabe’s party charged with spying for neighbouring South Africa has been freed by the High Court. Phillip Chiyangwa is alleged to have led a spy ring with five others, including Zanu-PF party security officials, diplomats, and a banker.