Deon Potgieter boxing Day two of the New York trial that will shed light on the heavyweight division was completed on Tuesday, with the court scheduled to sit again on Monday. Promoter Cedric Kushner and former heavyweight world champion Lennox Lewis are suing Don King, Hassim Rahman and Rahman’s managers, alleging interference and breach of […]
Peter Robinson cricket One of the least fearsome sights of recent weeks has been the United Cricket Board’s (UCB) disciplinary committee girding its loins to take swift and decisive action. Herschelle Gibbs should be able to vouch for that. Gibbs, who has been in so much hot water over the past couple of years that […]
Rumours of drug use surround the top runners for this year’s Comrades marathon Martin Gillingham If you can come to terms with the fact that the winner of Saturday’s Comrades marathon might well be a cheat then you’ve every reason to consider an entire Saturday spent glued to the box watching the 90km slog from […]
Andrew Gilder looks at the background to the launch of a performing arts network last week Some observers argue that human history has a cyclical nature that historical events recur over time. Most commentators use timeframes of centuries, or even millennia, to track this repetition. It is with a sense of ironic dj vu, therefore, […]
Wilhelm Disbergen In the current curriculum for social work at Unisa, homosexuality is defined as abnormal. In Unisa’s textbook homosexuality falls within a category entitled “Sexual Deviancy”. The description of homosexuality reads: “Most homosexual males pass for normal in society and only a small percentage are explicitly effeminate. Effeminate males feel a strong need to […]
Jennifer Capriati is happy again and it’s showing in her performance on the tennis courts Stephen Bierley in Paris Stefano Capriati was born in Brindisi on the heel of Italy, a town once listed as the ugliest in the world after Glasgow. Brindisi protested, claiming it should be top. Twelve years ago, when Jennifer Capriati […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It’s time France brought back the guillotine and its first client must be whoever it was who directed the television coverage from Roland Garros stadium of the French Open tennis tournament. I don’t know whether sabotage is regarded as a serious crime in France, but it certainly is in many of the […]
The law should give way to allow the media to report on divorce proceedings, says Khadija Magardie None of the good citizens of Utah batted an eyelid when, one spring morning in 1868, Brigham Young, a farmer, became “sealed” to Ann Eliza Webb, a 24-year-old bright-eyed divorcee with two children. She was his 19th wife. […]
Ernie Els believes the hottest streak in golf will end in the heat at Southern Hills Michael Vlismas in Tulsa There was a collective gasp of disbelief among the American media when Ernie Els declared: “Even Tiger is going to struggle this week.” They were not quite ready to believe him, of course. The prospect […]
Barry Streek South Africa has ousted former colonial power Britain as the largest supplier of exported goods to Kenya and Uganda and total exports to Africa are growing at a rate of between 20% to 30% a year. In 1994 value-added manufactured exports were 9% of the total exports for the year. By 1999 this […]