David James has had plenty of opportunities to show how vastly improved he is since his butterfinger days at Liverpool. The argument, however, about whether England are in safe hands is probably best left undecided until after the team’s last match in Portugal.
The ancient Grecians (as Exeter are known) were figures of legend: the first professional team to play in Brazil and first opponents for the national team. Their successors, who took on a team of veteran internationals last Sunday, are rather less well known.
Namibian churches displayed the anxiety that gripped most of the country as the ruling party, the South West Africa People’s Organisation (Swapo), held a special congress to a search for a successor to its president and hero of the liberation, Sam Nujoma. As things turned out, the prayers of Nujoma, at least, were answered.
French Open finalist Anastasia Myskina believes the years of sacrifice when she was growing up in Moscow have finally paid off as she prepares to take on compatriot Elena Dementieva for the supreme clay-court title on Saturday. She recalls her childhood spent training with lifelong friend Dementieva at the Spartak club.
A legal battle is looming between the Inkatha Freedom Party and its ally in the Coalition for Change, the Democratic Alliance, over who is the official opposition in the KwaZulu-Natal legislature. The dispute is likely to threaten the continued survival of the Coalition for Change. At the heart of these tensions is whether the minority partner IFP can also be the official opposition.
I was reminded of that rather dated joke when reading Barry Ronge’s always entertaining column in last week’s Sunday Times Magazine. Ronge was enthusing about a new play from noted American playwright Edward Albee that is entitled, quite simply, The Goat, since that’s what it is about. A quite respectable married man brings home a goat called Sylvia and announces to his family that she is his mistress.
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Institutions mandated by the Constitution to "support constitutional democracy" — specifically the Public Protector and the Human Rights Commission (HRC) — should be merged to curb costs and spread their know-how, says former HRC chairperson Barney Pityana. However, the deputy chairperson of the Gender Commission believes there is still room for the organisations to exist separately.
South African cellphone network Vodacom will still be sued in the Nigerian High Court for inducement of breach of contract, plaintiff Econet Wireless International said on Thursday. Econet Wireless Nigeria was Vodacom’s Nigerian partner until Monday, when the South African company abruptly terminated a five-year agreement.
The National Prosecuting Authority is guilty of discrimination if it does not prosecute the 37 African National Congress leaders who were refused amnesty by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, but continues to prosecute other citizens, says the Freedom Front Plus.