The South African Rugby Football Union (Sarfu) on Saturday announced that their investigation into alleged racism charges against Springbok and Blue Bulls lock Geo Cronje had revealed that the code of conduct had not been breached.
Andy Roddick was given a challenge for his 21st birthday and the American responded with a tie-breaker rally for the ages at the US Open in a match that lasted three hours and five minutes.
”Trial by media!” is a frequent, self-defensive cry of those in the media spotlight, as Deputy President Jacob Zuma was this week. The cry is often a red herring, say media analysts, though there are instances where it reflects a real concern.
The National Land Committee (NLC) is to vote on the closure of its national office. The relationship between the office and the NLC board, says its chairperson, has disintegrated.
The knives are out at the National Development Agency (NDA), with staff at the organisation insisting that a ministerially ordered investigation into employment irregularities and misuse of funds be transparent.
Video on demand — allowing people to download and view a film or TV programme whenever they wish, rather than wait for a broadcaster to show it, has been a dream for some time. And on September 5 the first full-length film to have its premiere on the Internet will go live, writes Guy Clapperton.
Matthew Krouse speaks to Rehad Desai about major works at the Three Continents Film Festival: Chilean exile Patricio Guzman’s The Pinochet Case; a documentary about kwaito called Scratched and Mixed ; and the controversial Sri Lankan epic In the Name of Budda.
Alastair Campbell has announced he is to leave his Downing Street job in a shock move mid-way through the Hutton inquiry.
Njabulo Ndebele’s first adult novel <i>The Cry of Winnie Mandela</i> transgresses the borders between fact and fiction, fusing aspects of the novel, biography and essay. It is a beautiful book, the writing lucid and quietly passionate, a work of deep intelligence, writes Chris Dunton.
Despite a few familiar Farah ‘tropes’, such familiar story material is manoeuvred freshly and adeptly here, indeed as if he had never attempted to squeeze the juice from it before. Stephen Gray dips into Nuruddin Farah’s latest work <i>Links</i>.