DEON POTGIETER, Johannesburg | Friday 12.35pm STERLING McPherson, manager of Francois Botha and the man responsible for landing his charge’s July 15 date with Lennox Lewis, believes Botha stands a good chance of winning the bout and earning a rematch with Mike Tyson. ”If Botha wins we’re going straight to Tyson for a rematch,” said […]
THE US agriculture department has eased restrictions on imports of South African beef and lamb, but not if they include meat from neighbouring countries such as Botswana and Namibia. The Business Day reports the US now considers SA free of both rinderpest – the last diagnosed case was in 1903 – and, excluding Kruger National […]
EMELIA SITHOLE, Harare | Friday 2.00pm. ZIMBABWE’s besieged white farmers said on Friday a peace deal struck with war veterans to end the occupation of farms is meaningless because they have stepped up their invasions and intimidation is on the increase. Commercial Farmers’ Union deputy director Jerry Grant said he is concerned that Chenjerai Hunzvi, […]
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Sleepy Hollow is another unsettling excursion into the dark side of Tim Burton. He talks to Mark Salisbury about Hammer horrors, Christopher Lee and a childhood love of cemeteries.
Titanic launched Kate Winslet onto the Hollywood A-list. She responded by making a series of imaginative, off-beat films – the latest of which is Holy Smoke. Now she’s married, pregnant and couldn’t give a stuff about fame, food and fat, she told Nicci Gerrard.
KENYAN Rotterdam marathon champion Kennedy Cheruiyot and Boston marathon women’s winner Catherine Ndereba have been left out of the country’s Sydney Olympics marathon team announced by the Kenya Amateur Athletic Association (KAAA) in Nairobi on Wednesday night. Cheruiyot and Ndereba were expected to earn automatic places in the squad by virtue of winning at Rotterdam […]
THE two bronze castings of South Africa’s new Coat-Of-Arms, unveiled by President Thabo Mbeki and Deputy President Jacob Zuma on Tuesday, almost found their way into the homes of two long-fingered law students. The two first-year students, enrolled at the University of Pretoria, were arrested at the Union Buildings at 3am on Wednesday morning attempting […]
MPUSH Makambi, South Africa’s boxer of the year 1999, finds himself in the precarious position of having a world title with no one to defend it against. He was set to defend his IBO middleweight world title against his number-one contender Howard Eastman last month. Eastman withdrew from the fight however, saying that he has […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, London | Thursday 11.30am ZIMABABWE shivered under the grey skies at Canterbury on Wednesday, leaving cold-victim Andy Flower under the weather with the tourists’ poor batting display. With eight days of cricket left before the first Test against England at Lord’s, Zimbabwean captain Flower is concerned about the form of key batsmen Neil […]