This week’s cricket confrontation at Headingley will evoke more tumultuous emotions among our South African boys as it was here, in 1998, that a certain Pakistani umpire got his finger up our noses, causing South Africa to lose the deciding Test and the series in nefarious fashion.
The blackout in New York and Ohio last week came as a timely reminder about the dangers of not pressing “save” on one’s PC every now and again. But electricity is the lifeblood of American sports.
In all media reports on last weekend’s coronation of King Leruo Molotlegi of the Bafokeng, the description "tribe" was thrown about with abandon. Black journalists, who should at least know better, also used this degrading term.
Labelled "explosive" by Microsoft boss Bill Gates, wireless networking arrived in South Africa this week, with Telkom and M-Web announcing plans to pilot wireless public areas or "hotspots".
Associates of Liberia’s ex-president, Charles Taylor, are selling off that country’s stately ambassadorial residence in Pretoria — but there are questions about whether the revenue will reach Liberian government coffers.
A land grab near Vryheid in northern KwaZulu-Natal went horribly wrong last week when the Pietermaritzburg High Court restrained Jabulani Mdlalose, a pretender to the chieftancy of the Othaka Tribal Authority, from encouraging a land invasion.
South African athletes have a good chance of achieving their best medal haul at the World Championships in Paris. Who are these athletes who could make our wildest dreams come true?
Gary Kirsten’s unbeaten 109 guided South Africa to 260 for seven at stumps on the first day of the fourth Test at Headingley on Thursday.
As FBI agents launched an investigation into the bombing of the UN headquarters in Iraq, Paul Bremer, the US’s top civilian administrator, highlighted three groups of suspects — Ba’athist supporters of Saddam Hussein, members of the Iraqi Ansar al-Islam organisation, or foreign Islamic militants.
With the possible exception of murder, South Africa’s rate of crime detection is not egregiously poor, writes Ted Leggett . Lack of confidence in the system creates a vicious cycle, where complainant apathy causes cases to be lost.