Deon Potgieter boxing Despite losing a week’s training because of the rantings of Glen “The cry baby” Catley, Dingaan Thobela says he is approaching readiness for the first defence of his World Boxing Council (WBC) super- middleweight world title on December 15. Thobela had to fly to Paris last week to defend himself at a […]

ONGERI JOHN, Dar es Salaam | Friday DROUGHT-ravaged Tanzania has introduced electricity rationing as shrinking dams begin to cutting into its hydro-electric capacity. Energy ministry permanent secretary Patrick Rutabazimbwa said major rain catchment areas had been hit by a year-long drought, drying up important feeder dams for the country’s hydro-electricity generating stations. Rutabazimbwa added that […]

Carlos Cardoso, Mozambique’s foremost investigative journalist, was assassinated on Wednesday night Christina Horte and Justin Arenstein Mozambique lost one of its bravest anti-corruption campaigners on Wednesday night when outspoken independent editor Carlos Cardoso died in a hail of bullets. Police and eyewitnesses report that the murder was a well-planned assassination involving at least two vehicles […]

Charl Pretorius horse racing More than R20-million is expected to be paid out in winning bets at Turffontein on Saturday on what is being touted as “an afternoon in a million”. The occasion is the running of Africa’s richest horse race, the R2-million Summer Handicap, and a record crowd is expected at the Johannesburg track. […]

Last weekend’s match against the Kiwis will be remembered for Allan Donald’s 300th Test wicket and Makhaya Ntini’s coming of age Peter Robinson On the day that The Star in Johannesburg chose to devote much of its front page to the changing hairstyles of Bobby Skinstad, the world’s best non-playing loose forward, Makhaya Ntini actually […]

Zenzile Khoisan New evidence has emerged of how the national head of violent crimes, Commissioner Leonard Knipe, used his senior position in the police to intimidate witnesses and threatened to topple the African National Congress government. According to tape recordings in the possession of the Mail & Guardian, Knipe threatened to “bring down” the ANC […]

Thuli Nhlapo The Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in Mpumalanga has deposited tens of thousands of rands in tribal authority bank accounts as part of a scheme to get tribal leaders to help reach voters. The IEC in Mpumalanga confirmed this week that it had given seven traditional leaders R10 000 each for hosting “imbizos” at […]

Amid fear and many hardships, Zimbabwe is an exciting place, writes Mercedes Sayagus I am on a high. I am Wonder Woman. I feel like I have had one line of coke and one orgasm. Make that three lines and three orgasms. What happened? I filled up my tank with fuel and the queue was […]

Emil Zatopek, arguably the greatest distance runner of all time, died this week in a hospital in Prague Duncan Mackay Between them, Sohn Kee-Chung, Waldemar Cierpinski, Carlos Lopes, Gelindo Bordin, Hwang Young-cho, Rosa Mota and Valentina Yegorova can claim to have won eight Olympic marathon gold medals. Ever since the moment they triumphed on the […]

Good ol’ gal Jane van Renen has a few swigs, wipes her mouth and tells it all Tradition is turning into trend drinking bourbon is especially for those who spend time in cigar bars. Surrounded by an age-old romantic atmosphere, these sweeter whiskeys are ever-growing in popularity. As American as apple pie, and with the […]