New Bafana Bafana head coach Jomo Sono desperately needs a win even in his absence Thebe Mabanga In 1993 Augusto Palacios was in charge for a World Cup qualifier against Nigeria. That game in Johannesburg came after a 4-0 drubbing by the Nigerians at Surulere stadium the previous September. To prepare for the Super Eagles, […]
SOCCER Ngwako Modjadji This week will be crucial for the top Premier Soccer League (PSL) clubs as it will sort out the contenders from the pretenders. The top four at the moment are the Cape-based Santos, Supersport United, Moroka Swallows and Orlando Pirates with fifth-placed Sundowns and Pirates having games in hands. Sundowns’ hopes of […]
Khadija Magardie A series of interviews published in the 2001 South African Health Review underscore concerns that doctors and nurses in public hospitals and clinics are among the major culprits discriminating against people with HIV. Published annually by the Health Systems Trust, the review is the most comprehensive overview of issues affecting the health-care sector. […]
TENNIS Iain Carter If you’ve inherited genes that survived eight years’ hard labour in a uranium mine, emerging from the lows dealt by a life spent extracting vast riches from playing tennis shouldn’t be too much of a problem. Nor does it appear so for Martina Hingis, even though she’s been handed a sentence of […]
‘The Great Betrayal” (March 22) concerned itself with the farcical endorsement of the Zimbabwean election by the South African observer mission and the ANC, yet even when dealing with such a clear-cut issue, Drew Forrest finds space to have a swipe at the Democratic Alliance (DA). Forrest holds an obvious amount of animosity towards the […]
RUNNING Martin Gillingham Even in these changing times the Two Oceans Marathon has retained its significance among the crown jewels of South African sporting events. But, as is becoming the trend, it is a foreigner who is most likely to leave Cape Town on Saturday night clasping the family silver. This year’s race has attracted […]
David Macfarlane Suspicion is rampant at Unisa that controversial council chairperson McCaps Motimele pulled a fast one to get himself re-elected last week for a further term of office. In developments that have left senior academics seething, Motimele at first let it be known earlier this month that he was unavailable for another term; and […]
Donwald Pressly Democratic Alliance nervousness about its control of the Cape Town unicity is surfacing in pressure for a court challenge to the proposed law allowing councillors to defect to other parties. Sources said a groundswell was building among the DA’s 107 councillors in the 200-strong council to take the legislation, gazetted recently, to the […]
ICEHOCKEY John Young South Africa and Australia go head-to-head twice on April 6, on grass at St George’s Park and on ice in Cape Town. South Africa’s ice hockey team will be aiming to score their first win over Australia at about the same time as the sixth one-day cricket match in Port Elizabeth reaches […]
Adrian Muphemhi, also known as ”Appleseed”, has been arrested for contravening the Aliens Control Act. After his trial he will be put in detention at Lindelani, then deported over the border, with hundreds of other men and woman, their faces between their knees, their hands behind their heads. Who knows what careers, lovers, and dreams […]