Neal Collins soccer After the fabulous nine-goal excitement of Liverpool’s Uefa Cup victory last week, Bayern Munich’s Champions League triumph over Valencia was one for the connoisseur. This was a San Siro final that consisted purely of spot kicks. Some good, some bad, some brilliantly kept out. But the abiding truth of football is this: […]
Stuart Jeffries In Cannes for the screening of a video diary on May 14 the Reverend Jesse Jackson denounced the film festival for promoting cultural apartheid. “There must be more African-American films being shown here. There are none this year,” said Jackson, making his first visit to the wealthy Riviera resort. “And there must be […]
Former South African president Nelson Mandela has arrived in Sharjah for a visit of several days to the United Arab Emirates.
Andy Roddick is the next big thing in tennis and he should add some fizz to the Grand Slams Jon Henderson First, the slightly disappointing news about Andy Roddick: a tennis magazine has described the 18-year-old American as being “refreshingly normal”. How much more refreshing normality can we take on the men’s tour? The rest, […]
Nick Hasted When Ian Rankin created John Rebus, the Edinburgh Detective Inspector he has followed through 12 books now, Rebus was 38, liked a drink, and had one dark buried secret, from his days in the army, that returned to haunt him. But with each book, Rebus’s ghosts, and Rankin’s interest in the skeletons mouldering […]
The Mail &Guardian and the ANC faced each other in court this week over the allegation that a white editor wrote an article and put a black journalist’s name above it, Khadija Magardie reports The Johannesburg High Court looks miles away from a resolution of the dispute between the Mail & Guardian and the country’s […]
Sizwe samaYende American fast food giant McDonald’s has been dubbed “McGreed” in Mpumalanga after refusing to supply anti-Aids drugs to a staff member who was raped after working a late shift. The transnational corporation refuses to supply transport for staff who knock off between midnight and 2am, and who are regularly ambushed by criminals. A […]
Paul Kirk Last week Durban’s largest shelter for the homeless ran out of food. This week, a homeless man had to be turned away because there was no space for him. This is because hundreds of Gauteng’s indigent winter at the coast where, thanks to the warm Indian ocean, daytime temperatures seldom drop below 20C. […]
By Bruce Whitfield Emerging markets specialist Mark Mobius has about $1-billion invested in South Africa, and he’s looking to increase his exposure. He is the president of the Templeton Emerging Markets Fund, and about 15% of the fund’s total assets are invested in a wide range of South African companies. He is looking to increase […]
The movie Fight Club has spawned a craze for ultimate fighting, though the sport is banned in some countries because of deaths in the ring Thebe Mabanga South Africans are catching on to the growth and popularity of the American contact sport, ultimate fighting. Last weekend 2 500 people crammed into the Wembley Arena in […]