The African National Congress’s national leadership has postponed the party’s provincial elections amid fears that branches will re-elect Makhenkesi Stofile as chairperson, say party insiders.
The campaign for Aids treatment is also a fight for the ANC’s traditions of freedom and dignity, writes Zackie Achmat.
A US bomber struck and demolished a building in Baghdad where the Americans believed Saddam Hussein and his sons were meeting to discuss an escape route out of the city, it was reported last night.
One obstacle above all occupies the mind of Lavinia Taylor as she prepares to send Gingembre to Aintree for Saturday’s Grand National.
Plans for a world heavyweight title rematch between the World Boxing Council champion Lennox Lewis and Mike Tyson have fallen through, at least for now, and talks have begun to put together a bill on June 21 involving both men against different opponents.
American and British military tacticians rarely tire of invoking the name of Sun Tzu, the ancient Chinese philosopher of war, credited with laying the groundwork for everything from ”decapitation strikes” to the policy of ”shock and awe”.
Rarely in soccer has one team proved such an obstacle for one coach. No team coached by Gordon Igesund, from Manning Rangers to, recently, Ajax Cape Town, has succeeded in beating Kaizer Chiefs.
There is a story about a man who repeatedly hits himself on the head with a mallet. When asked why he does it, he says: “Because it feels so good when I stop.”
Clive Woodward has a repertoire of useful mantras, and one of them came out again in the immediate afterglow of Sunday’s triumph in Dublin. “We keep learning and moving on,” he said, finding one way to sum up the five years since he took over as England’s manager.