No image available
/ 6 December 2004
When an archbishop and winner of a Nobel Peace Prize threatens to pray for our president and his government as he used to for the apartheid regime, it would be extremely uncharitable not to spare a sympathetic thought for the beleaguered African National Congress and its leader. Archbishop Desmond Tutu’s speech represents an assault on the legitimacy of the ANC in the eyes of party loyalists, writes Aubrey Matshiqi.
No image available
/ 6 December 2004
England captain Michael Vaughan led his country to a 4-0 clean-sweep against Zimbabwe on Sunday and then set his sights on repeating the magic against South Africa. Vaughan hit an unbeaten 90 as England defeated Zimbabwe by 74 runs and was promptly named man-of-the-series after totalling 211 runs with an average of over 100.
No image available
/ 6 December 2004
History repeated itself at Olen Park on Sunday when Supersport United reached the final of the Coca-Cola Cup by defeating Wits University 4-3 in a dramatic penalty shoot-out after neither side had scored during a dull semifinal match that ended in pouring rain.
No image available
/ 6 December 2004
Argentina captain Agustin Pichot spoke of a lack of respect by clubs after they were defeated 39-7 by South Africa at Velez Sarsfield in Buenos Aires on Saturday night. The Argentinians were forced to field five newcomers in the squad because of European Cup call-ups and they never managed to threaten Jake White’s side.
No image available
/ 6 December 2004
South Africa’s rugby coach Jake White said on his return from Argentina on Monday morning that a committee of conditioning experts will be appointed to look into the overall capacity of the Springbok rugby team. White and his weary squad arrived in Cape Town after their annual end-of-season tour was concluded on Saturday when the South Africans defeated an under-strength Pumas side 39-7 in Buenos Aires.
Argentina complains of ‘lack of respect’
Click on image for full-size view.
No image available
/ 5 December 2004
Over 500 people were arrested on the East Rand over the weekend, mostly for offences related to drunk and disorderly behaviour, police said on Sunday. Most of the arrests, made in Springs, Kwa- Thema, Boksburg and Alberton, were related to selling liquor without a licence and drinking or being drunk in public, said police spokesperson Superintendent Andy Pieke.
No image available
/ 5 December 2004
Wealthy Americans seeking immortality now have the option of being reincarnated as a work of art. For the sum of 000, aficionados of the great American architect and designer Frank Lloyd Wright can be buried in one of the last of his works to be completed: the Blue Sky Mausoleum at Forest Lawn Cemetery in Buffalo, New York.
No image available
/ 5 December 2004
Zimbabwe’s ruling party on Saturday elected longtime Cabinet minister Joyce Mujuru as the country’s first woman vice-president at the end of a party congress. Welcoming her election President Robert Mugabe hinted that Mujuru may be destined for higher office. ”When you choose her as a vice-president, you don’t want her to remain in that chair do you?” he asked the delegates amid applause.
No image available
/ 5 December 2004
If you live long enough, you get to see the world turn — or turn upside down. After a lifetime spent watching and living through the abrasive, competitive relationship between Australia and Britain, I can vouch for that. Growing up in the southern state of Tasmania in the 1950s, I measured the expanses of water on the map and wondered why we had been dumped at this forlorn global extremity. Plotting my escape, I played Monopoly — enabling me to buy and sell Piccadilly.