The African National Congress in Parliament on Wednesday rejected claims it was ”soft” on Winnie Madikizela-Mandela.
President Thabo Mbeki on Wednesday led calls for ”a heroes’ welcome” to be accorded Bafana Bafana on their return from South Korea.
Being a king is a tough task and you can’t even quit. A quick glance through history shows there are some awful ways to lose your job — most often by losing your head. But in the olden days no one questioned what you wanted to do.
If this marked the end of the road for boxing as a big-time global sport — and it just might — then the devilish old game went down in a blaze of something remarkably close to glory. As did its most devilish son. The morality tale took its course. Lennox Lewis, polite society’s instrument of vengeance, savaged Mike Tyson in an awesome, breathtaking fight last Saturday night to retain the world heavyweight championship as determined by pretty much anyone who cares or matters.
The definition of a true champion, it is said, is the capacity to come back and win whatever it is they’ve won already again and again. There are, meanwhile, those champions who have come back and made a real pig’s ear of it.
Colin Montgomerie, innocent abroad, is convinced that the tide has been turned, that the tirade of foul-mouthed abuse that he so often suffers in the United States will cease this week. He believes that the US Open, at the Bethpage State Park course on Long Island, will see the creation of a new and more civilised society, at least as far as he is concerned.
One of South Africa’s richest entrepreneurs, David King, was arrested in Randburg by the elite crime-fighting unit, the Scorpions, on charges of tax evasion amounting to at least R900-million.
The Gauteng government has stressed that law enforcement agencies in the Cullinan area, near Pretoria, should serve all residents equally, irrespective of race.
South Africa bowed out of the World Cup with heads held high. A bright future beckons for Bafana Bafana, but coach Jomo Sono is less certain about his own future.
South African shares opened 0,4% softer on Thursday, led lower by gold shares which tumbled as investors moved to lock in profits after a recent surge in the sector.