Mark Ouma soccer Improved physical conditioning and better team cohesion are keys to a better performance by Banyana Banyana in the Africa Women’s Football Championships next month. The two-week competition – which kicks off on November 11 in Johannesburg – features defending champions Nigeria, runners-up Ghana, Cameroon, Morocco, Runion, Uganda, Zimbabwe and hosts South Africa. […]

The Gunners are through to the next round of the Uefa Champions League with a game to spare Neal Collins That’s more like it. Arsenal’s emphatic 4-2 win over Czech champs Sparta Prague on Wednesday will have the rest of Europe sweating – and boy, did the Brits need a result like that after the […]

Peter Dickson The African National Congress and its ally, the South African National Civic Organisation (Sanco), have split in the Eastern Cape ahead of the December 5 local government elections. Sanco’s provincial executive has resolved to back independent candidates in the elections, citing as its reason the ANC’s “delaying tactics” in finalising lists of local […]

After its first year of implementation, a project to prevent crime in schools is proving successful Khadija Magardie Two teenage boys dressed in school uniform clamber out of nearby bushes and walk almost casually into the quadrangle, which is full of pupils at break-time. One smiling boy is pulling up his trouser zipper. Soon after […]

Saturday’s Currie Cup final is likely to be a torrid affair, with no quarter asked or given Andy Colquhoun Most of us will never play in a Currie Cup final. And we probably have as much chance of properly comprehending the sound and fury of the rugby coalface as a cat has of riding a […]

Eldene Eyssell and Elisabeth Lickindorf A Stellenbosch team has found a fast, accurate test for the fungus known as “black goo” which has been devastating the world’s vineyards. Slow to grow, the deadly fungus (Phaeomoniella chlamydospora) is difficult to detect in its early stages. Like cholesterol that blocks arteries in humans, the fungus attacks the […]

Mail & Guardian reporters The G7 industrialised nations intervened on behalf of the euro last month to test whether the clamour for United States assets, which has been boosting the dollar on the foreign exchanges, had been overdone, the Governor of the Bank of England, Sir Eddie George, said recently. Since the euro was launched, […]

Former Springbok media liaison officer Alex Broun examines how over a period of almost two years Nick Mallett was slowly forced out of his position as Springbok coach, nearly causing a breakaway by the Springbok team in the process Despite what the South African Rugby Football Union’s (Sarfu) public relations department (better known as certain […]

The art world is becoming more intimate due to bonds forged at a cultural development conference in The Netherlands Alex Sudheim A seminal, international art initiative has been launched by 12 young artists from India, Indonesia, Mexico, Mali, Argentina and South Africa. In June, at the behest of the Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten and the […]

James Astill Directly inspired by the popular uprising that felled Serbia’s strongman, street protests in Cte d’Ivoire swept out the West African state’s first and only military dictator this week, after less than a year in power. General Robert Gue is in hiding after trying – like Slobodan Milosevic in Belgrade – to declare himself […]