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/ 15 January 2004
Smiling into the camera, a bright-faced little girl of about four dressed in her Sunday best shouts "Trees!", instead of the customary "Cheese!" Tiny, sandal-clad feet stomp the freshly stirred earth around a newly planted acacia tree. Loren Naish looks at a project that’s breathing new life into barren, depressing urban environments.
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/ 15 January 2004
Whereas the job of the media is generally to look outwards, the SABC is in the often unenviable position of having the glare pointed squarely at Auckland Park. So it was this week. The corporation was in hot water with opposition parties for its decision to cover the African National Congress election manifesto launch jamboree in all its green, black and gold glory.
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/ 15 January 2004
I wouldn’t recommend a weekend at the Harare Central Hotel if you are proposing to visit Zimbabwe. Some of the staff can be over-attentive and the room service leaves a lot to be desired. Mosquitoes nibbled at our bare feet all night while cockroaches the size of rats scuttled about. The toilets? Don’t even mention the toilets.
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/ 15 January 2004
At 24, a single mother, Marie — not her real name — could have expected a better deal in life. But she was given no choice: while working as a housemaid in Kinindo, a residential suburb of the capital, Bujumbura, Marie was raped and subsequently found herself pregnant. Marie would not have dreamed of seeking an abortion, not least because it is prohibited here.
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/ 15 January 2004
In October 1938, the day before Halloween, in fact, Orson Welles made his legendary ”War of the Worlds” radio broadcast. Well, the manne are feeling a bit like members of the Mercury Theatre at the moment, with Oom Robert Kirby as ons eie Orson Welles. And it’s all because of our last edition of 2003.
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/ 15 January 2004
Reports on Thursday said Bafana Bafana coach Ephraim ”Shakes” Mashaba, who was suspended last Wednesday, has been fired by the South African Football Association. Mashaba’s dismissal came as he was fighting his suspension — which he claims was ”unlawful” — in the Johannesburg High Court.
Mashaba: ‘My suspension is unlawful’
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/ 15 January 2004
PGA Tour players at the World Series of Golf used to gather around the TV after their rounds and watch a teenager named Tiger Woods compete in the US Amateur. The talent was awesome. His power was breathtaking. The potential was unlimited. No one knew how good he was going to be, or how long it would take him to win. But they saw him coming.
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/ 15 January 2004
Boland snatched a dramatic victory in a Standard Bank Cup match that seemed threatened to end in a wash-out at Paarl on Wednesday night. Rain twice interrupted the Border innings. Boland were just about to set off on a reduced run chase when the rain returned, and seemed to return every time the covers were removed.
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/ 15 January 2004
Jay Jay Okocha will lead Nigeria at the African Cup of Nations, but Taribo West will not be in the team, the Nigerian soccer federation said on Wednesday. Okocha, who captained Nigeria at the 2002 World Cup finals, will play for the Super Eagles despite financial problems that could have kept him off the team.
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/ 15 January 2004
Both the KwaZulu-Natal Dolphins and the Free State Eagles remain winless in the Standard Bank Cup as rain hit Bloemfontein, marring their bottom of the log clash on Wednesday. The Dolphins have once again been hit hard by inclement weather with this, their fourth match to be declared a no-result, and their fifth dogged by rain.