Should Kenyan authorities have been better prepared for the drought that has ravaged most of the country, prompting widespread food shortages? It’s a question that elicits a mixed response from analysts. Some say that on the basis of past experience, more could have been done.
South African photographers, cameramen and producers are sought after by the international networks to cover conflicts around the world. Hamilton Wende reflects on some of the lessons he and his colleagues learned in the townships in the ’80s and ’90s.
The United States Senate intelligence committee report is the Da Vinci code of the Iraq war. Some of the clues are in plain sight but unless one knows how to read them they remain cryptic. Deletions, covering one-fifth of the report, and omissions, stretching endlessly, are as significant as what’s included.
Counterfeit cds, dvds and computer games worth R30-million were destroyed in Durban at the weekend in an operation between the SA Revenue Services (Sars), the police and the SA Federation Against Copyrights Theft. Sars spokesperson Sechaba Nkosi said in a statement on Sunday that 14 people were arrested in raids conducted around Durban at the weekend.
Former Bafana Bafana captain Steve Komphela is set to rejoin the South African senior national football squad’s technical staff. Komphela is reported to be earmarked by Bafana Bafana coach Stuart Baxter to serve as one of his assistants. Komphela is unemployed at the moment after failing to agree to new terms with the management of Manning Rangers, where he was the head coach.
A golfer who was born a hermaphrodite was banned from a woman’s tournament because her birth certificate lists her gender as male. Instead, 40-year-old Danielle Swope will play in Saturday’s qualifier for the Fort Wayne Men’s City Tournament. ”I have respect for the men for at least giving me the opportunity to play. The women I don’t have any respect for,” Swope said.
Everton’s £50 000-a-week carrot to entice Wayne Rooney to stay put at the debt-ridden Goodison Park is no joke, the club’s owner Bill Kenwright has insisted. Kenwright told Sky television he hopes English football’s hottest property will sign the new five-year contract.
Todd Hamilton thought he did not belong up with the golfing elite. Now he knows he does. The softly spoken 38-year-old American won the British Open on Sunday, completing a rags-to-riches story that saw him spend years in Japan struggling just to scrape a living out of the game. It was payback time at Troon as he took on the best players in the world.
Ernie Els came within 2,4m of lifting his second British Open title and taking his Major championship tally to four. But his birdie putt on the 72nd hole at Royal Toon slipped centimetres wide, forcing the world number two into a playoff with unheralded American Todd Hamilton.
South African athletes won three more gold medals for a total of 10 when the 14th African Athletics Championships ended in Brazzaville on Sunday. The men’s javelin throwers made a clean sweep of the medals, while Llewellyn Herbert and Geraldine Pillay added the others in the 400m hurdles and the 200m respectively.