Gavin Foster rallying With just a couple of days to go before the end in Senegal, it’s clear that South African Alfie Cox has no chance of winning the 2001 Paris-Dakar rally, and the “almost” man can blame it all on BMW. If the German manufacturer hadn’t ditched its highly successful 650cc single-cylinder machines in […]

Merryman Kunene soccer The highest recognition any professional can get comes from fellow professionals, who understand better what it takes to get to the top. It is for this reason that Nastasia Tsichlas, the MD of Sundowns, beams with pride when she looks at her success in football, which culminated in her appointment to one […]

Adam Sweeting CD OFTHEWEEK Prising themselves free from their mid-Nineties fixations with irony and Las Vegas glitz, U2 have circled back to what they’ve always done best on All That You Can’t Leave Behind (Universal-Island). That means big tunes, thumping beats and soaring guitars, while Bono pins his heart on his sleeve and sings as […]

PIET GREYLING (rugby): Is it important how one feels if someone puts in that much money to have his name on it? I don’t have a helluva view I liked the old names but things have changed. To be honest I don’t know what Loftus is called any more. As you get older all that […]

DUMISANE LUBISI, Belfast | Friday A WIDOW who allegedly forced her young children to perform sexual acts with two men in return for payment appeared briefly in the Belfast Magistrate’s Court this week. The unidentified mother of the two children, a 13-year-old boy and 10-year-old girl, was unable to raise R 1_000 bail and has […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Goma | Friday HEAVY fighting erupted early on Friday at Bunia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, as the country began 30 days of mourning for slain president Laurent Kabila, a UN source said. “There have been clashes in Bunia since 5:00 this morning. It appears that Lendu (local ethnic) groups are attacking […]

SIX months after ending a three-year funding freeze to Kenya, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it had put the brakes on a new programme because of “serious setbacks” in the fight against corruption. “It’s not a suspension, it’s more or less a delay in disbursement because of setbacks in the critical aspects of efforts […]

THE recent birth of two wildebeest calves on the slopes of Table mountain are the first in at least two years because the bulls are too busy fighting each other to woo the cows, says the Cape Peninsula National Park. Representative Philip Prins said last year 35 animals were kept in the camp at the […]

Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION If it proves anything other than the fact that even drivel can be very gaudily wrapped, M-Net’s Cosmo Show has secondary merits. Anything which displays the incomparable Jane Raphaely touch, however remotely bestowed, is always good for a snigger. Cosmopolitan magazine is run by Raphaely’s daughter, Vanessa, and along with the television […]