Deon Potgieter Two of South Africa’s best will be in action on the undercard of the Lennox Lewis-Hasim Rahman universal heavyweight world title fight at Carnival City in the early hours of Sunday morning. Lehlohonolo Ledwaba, the best pound-for-pound boxer active in South Africa at the moment, makes the fifth defence of his International Boxing […]
Ntuthuko Maphumulo soccer Just two Bob Save Super Bowl quarterfinals will take place this weekend, with Kaizer Chiefs’ and Orlando Pirates’ games postponed so their players and officials can attend the funerals of the 43 victims of the Ellis Park stampede. Santos will face Maritzburg City on Saturday and Sundowns will face Manning Rangers at […]
John Matshikiza with the lid off One of the early successes scored by the Belgian cartoonist Herg was a book-length adventure called Tintin in the Congo. Written in the 1930s, it has Tintin, the morally impeccable, orange-quiffed wonder boy from hell, storming around the then Belgian colony with his smart-alecky talking dog, bashing up scheming […]
The producer of the magazine Hei Voetsek, Zebulon Dread, visited Oudtshoorn at festival time only to run in horror from what he found on the town streets It was the fifth consecutive year that I had loudly, brazenly and quite crazily taken it upon myself to go into the heartland of the enemy the Klein […]
Paul Kirk Armscor bosses are set to make a killing by buying arms from companies of which they are shareholders or directors. This week the Mail & Guardian obtained Armscor documents showing that Armscor chair Ron Haywood is a director of another company, Dynamic Cables, which is among the front runners to supply key components […]
Robert Kirby CHANNELVISION It’s hard not to be cynical about the media response to the fatalities at Ellis Park last week. Print was bad enough, but South African television once again showed itself up as an institution almost completely devoid of dignity or restraint. I am sure that in the television newsrooms they hang a […]
This weekend sees the second leg of the MotoGP championships at Phakisa Raceway in Welkom. Gavin Foster expects fireworks Take two young men of immense talent, mix in a couple of egos the size of watermelons and set them loose on a racetrack on equal machinery and you’ve got a great sporting event. But add […]
Andy Capostagno rugby It may be too soon to start talking of another golden era in Natal and Springbok rugby, but when New Zealanders start to complain of illegal tactics you know that something radical is happening. New Zealanders like to praise South African teams for trying hard and losing. It is not in their […]
Greg Mills Second look Former United States president Bill Clinton has said: “The worst sin America ever committed about Africa was the sin of neglect and ignorance.” Under his presidency Africa’s profile rose in the US. Clinton made the first proper visit by a US president to Africa in 1998, and followed this up with […]
It is bitterly ironic that the scene of one of South Africa’s greatest sporting triumphs should also be the scene of one of its most appalling sporting tragedies. Six short years ago the images that flashed around the globe from Ellis Park were of a jubilant young nation: Nelson Mandela celebrating with Francois Pienaar as […]