The worst bus bombing in the past three years of intifada pushed the Palestinian leadership this week towards the confrontation with Islamic fundamentalists it has spent months trying to avoid.
The Premier Soccer League season kicked off with a Durban derby on Wednesday, while this weekend the big guns will be on show. The title may well go to whichever of the 16 teams can stand the test of time.
The Sandton mink and manure belt will be alive with the sounds of popping champagne corks, scraping caviar dishes and the pounding of horses’ hooves when the second BMW International Polo Test rolls into town on Sunday.
This week Lemmer chews the cud on moon real-estate, long lines in the president’s hit squad, Langa’s stake in our airports, whorepresents and powergenitalia …
The regional grouping designed to spearhead Africa’s transformation is now playing catch up to the continental organisation. Leaders of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) gather in Dar es Salaam this weekend to pull the choke on its reforms.
Even if they no longer hold the whip hand in Burundi, the armed rebels showed this week that they still have a lethal grip on it.
Sadly the UDF legacy has faded into historical obscurity and that famous acronym is hardly ever mentioned when stories of triumph over apartheid are told. And only paint companies and media houses are likely to be happy about the constant media attention being given to a rural boy who may or may not be white.
Disgraced Australian Test cricketer Shane Warne has announced he will take no further part in any official training until the end of his 12-month drug ban in February.
Ben Curtis, the British Open golf champion, is to marry his fiancée, Candace, on Saturday, and the only slight complication is that neither he nor anyone else has the faintest idea when the ceremony will take place.
At the risk of sounding like Rudolph Straeuli, whose plan for the World Cup is sufficiently cunning as to be able to withstand heavy, and regular, hidings from any halfway decent opposition, South Africa’s cricket defeat at Nottingham may be no bad thing.