Five members of the disbanded Eastern Province Cricket Board (EPCB) are contesting claims of financial mismanagement that led to the board being placed under judicial management last month. The UCB, the sport’s national governing body, disbanded the board after a report by Gerald Majola.
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‘Between me and the other world there is an unasked question; unasked by some through feelings of delicacy; by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it: ‘How does it feel to be a problem?’
I appear to have sparked a rather serious cultural crisis in last week’s column by referring to the creator of Pinocchio, the puppet- who-became-a-boy, as Stromboli, rather than Gepetto.
With the help of a recently launched Internet site, one can now compile and order a CD with tracks from one’s favourite up-and-coming local acts at a very reasonable price. The site, to be found at www.thenextbigthing.co.za, provides a handy outlet for bands and musicians to make a profit from single tracks instead of recording or selling a complete CD. This is different to sites like www.oneworld.co.za, which sells complete local CDs only.
I read the article "The making of a man" (July 19). I am a Xhosa man who, like the anonymous author of the article, got initiated the traditional way.
Anglogold and five mining unions have clinched a unique deal that paves the way for company-funded anti-retroviral treatment for HIV-infected miners for the first time. Unofficial estimates put levels of HIV infection in the mining industry at between 25% and 30%.
The clean, green reputation of New Zealand — an image worth millions, according to the environment industry — is under threat along with its government in a row over GM crops that is overwhelming this week’s general election. Nearly four million voters go to the polls on Saturday.
SA Rugby CEO Rian Oberholzer has been fighting fires recently. Suggestions that the end of the Newscorp contract in 2005 might usher in an era of South African alignment with Europe have been met with a dead bat. But Oberholzer’s pronouncements of Tri-Nations solidarity sit uncomfortably with last week’s events in the Antipodes.
If you look closely enough you might just be able to make out the thin fissures that have begun to creep across the facade of infallibility that once clung to Fast Eddie Jones.