Sebastian Rothmann will be vying for his second world title on Saturday when he faces New Zealander Anthony Bigeni for the vacant Internatioanl Boxing Organisation cruiserweight crown at Carnival City. The fight is the main bout on the undercard to the Cassius Baloyi vs Mbulelo Botile match-up.

Not a few people would love to see David Terbrugge opening the bowling for South Africa in tandem with Steve Elworthy — if only to provide the country with the most articulate pace attack in the modern game. None of that ”I’ve been working hard and it’s coming out nicely” from either of these two.

The Gauteng government is shutting down almost all its poverty relief projects, citing corruption, fraud and mismanagement of funds and a lack of skills. A dossier dubbed the Exit Strategy Report alleges corrupt practices by officials and project leaders.

Boris Becker walked out of a German court a free man but a convicted criminal yesterday. The judges found him guilty of tax evasion, but rejected the prosecution’s demand that he should be jailed.

The suspension and eventual removal of Victor Sibiya as CEO of the Diamond Board was preceded by an extraordinary deterioration in the relationship between Sibiya and board members, some of whom he accused of complicity in illegal diamond deals.

Cut-price drugs: A major drug company announced this week in New Jersey, United States, that it would cut the price of its Aids drug Stocrin to less than R10 a day in poor countries that are hardest hit by the pandemic.

I am inspired to write this article (in ebullient defence of our worthy and misunderstood presidential representative) by the quite unseemly attacks made on his character and intellect in last week’s <i>Mail & Guardian</i> ("Mbeki’s malaise goes deeper than Parks").

Newspapers and television continue to seethe with yet more uninformed comment on the matter of the so-called HIV/Aids crisis. I cannot but sympathise with the frustrations of our Department of Health in its lonely and audacious crusade against this killer virus.