friday Golf: German Masters, at 2pm on SuperSport1 (SS1/CSN) Rugby: Currie Cup, Super Eights, round two, Pumas vs Cheetahs at 7pm on SS1/CSN saturday Cricket: Second one-day international (ODI), Zimbabwe vs New Zealand, at 9.25am on SS2 Rugby: New Zealand NPC series, Auckland vs North Harbour at 6.35am, Waikato vs Canterbury at 7pm (delayed), Northland […]

Personal bests, not medals, were the order of the day for South Africa’s Olympic team Grant Shimmin It was the strangest of situations. Two South African 400m athletes had qualified for the finals of the men’s and women’s events at the Olympics, both for the first time, and each had run outside the gold medal […]

Tony Leon CROSSFIRE Retiring United States Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan once memorably observed: “Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.” So, too, with Crossfire (“Democracy requires wisdom too”, September 22 to 28). In order to concertina my words into his argument, Firoz Cachalia is guilty, at best, of elliptical reasoning […]

Merryman Kunene One of South Africa’s biggest Olympic disappointments came from the under-23 soccer team who failed to reach the quarterfinals after a couple of bad results against so-called weaker sides (Japan and Slovakia), and one glorious win over Brazil. “For me it is difficult to comment on the other sports and how the National […]

Studies estimate that by 2015 more than 10- million South Africans will have died of Aids-related causes Howard Barrell The HIV/Aids pandemic is drastically affecting South Africa’s economic growth and future prospects and will eat into the wealth of those fortunate enough to survive it. The havoc being wrought by HIV/Aids means that in 2010, […]

This is an extract from the debate in Parliament last week where President Thabo Mbeki responded to questions from MPs Malusi Gigaba (African National Congress) asked President Thabo Mbeki whether the government had a strategy for dealing with racism and the continuing racial divides in the country and, if this was the case, “how does […]

Thebe Mabanga Another week of living in hope and eternal optimism has gone by for South Africa. Without fail, our Olympians have raised our hopes only to bring them crashing down. When the games end on Sunday, not only might we have failed to reach our Atlanta medal tally of five medals, we will also […]

David Le Page It’s a bit like having a Nu-Metro in your lap, without people kicking your seat or having to breathe under-airconditioned air. The Panasonic DVD-LV75 was the world’s first portable DVD until a couple of months ago – other manufacturers have now started to follow suit. DVD, for the uninitiated, stands for Digital […]

Greg Bowes CD OFTHEWEEK With their Nu Breed offshoot, the Global Underground camp add to their already substantial line in DJ mixes (from the likes of Paul Oakenfold and Sasha) a platform for less established but equally thrilling deckhands. Danny Howells, who’s here with Renaissance over the weekend (playing at Nexus in Johannesburg and at […]

Braam Kruger’s new book of recipes pays tribute to the exotic communities whose food is sold on the city streets Matthew Krouse Braam Kruger lives in a dream state – in Observatory, Johannesburg. He reminds one of a plaster gnome who dwells under a large mushroom, along with the fairies at the bottom of the […]