Bafana Bafana hasn’t been under this sort of pressure since 1997. On a hot summer afternoon Phil Masinga hit a rocket from midfield past the Congolese goalkeeper to propel South Africa to its first World Cup and send a capacity crowd of 60 000 at FNB stadium (and 40-million at home) into raptures.
It may have been a sheer fluke. It could have set a trend. The truth is that nobody can be sure before Wimbledon gets under way on Monday whether David Nalbandian’s highly unlikely progress to last year’s final heralded the new order of grass-court tennis or whether Rudyard Kipling’s If will need to be translated into Spanish.
Here in the Groot Marico there’s a grand tradition of storytelling. You don’t even need a lekker campfire to warm to your theme – just make sure the old stone jug isn’t too far away.
Power remains a real factor in international law. The weak are the usual suspects in the dockets of international war crimes courts – the strong rarely are.
To a near-hysterical welcome in Japan, the English soccer star David Beckham began a staggeringly lucrative commercial break between soccer clubs on Wednesday, the first of four days of cheesy promotional work that will reportedly earn him and his wife Victoria more than his entire first season salary with his new club, Real Madrid.
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Free State health Member of the Executive Committee Ouma Motsumi-Tshopo tabled an Initiation School Bill in the provincial legislature on Thursday in a bid to ensure the safety and hygienic treatments of initiates.
Economic development and social benefits are boosted when governments strengthen people’s land rights and dismantle barriers to land transactions, a World Bank report said on Thursday.
Draft legislation aimed at overhauling the registration of mining titles and setting up a central office for all mining and prospecting rights was unanimously approved by the National Assembly on Thursday.
The National Assembly on Thursday approved two finance bills aimed at allowing late applications for special pensions, and to change the constitution of the board of the Financial and Fiscal Commission (FFC).