CHARLTON Athletic defender Mark Fish, who announced his retirement from international soccer in February, is the surprise in the Bafana Bafana squad announced to play Zimbabwe in a World Cup qualifying clash in Harare on July. Leeds United defender Lucas Radebe will skipper the squad. Bafana Bafana Goalkeepers: John Tlale , Brian Baloyi, Hans Vonk, […]
ROB DAVIES, Cape Town | Saturday 7.35pm. A LAST-ditch effort sparked by a controversial Joost van der Westhuizen try could not see the Springboks to victory over a rock-solid England who triumphed 22-27 at the Free State Stadium on Saturday. Twenty-one year old England flyhalf and man-of-the-match Jonny Wilkinson was sublime, scoring all 27 his […]
THIRTY people died when robbers turned their guns on passengers travelling in night buses in two separate incidents in southeast Nigeria this week. In both incidents, the robbers tried to stop the buses in the early hours of Thursday morning and opened fire when the drivers tried to drive off, police in Awka said. One […]
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John Saul, veteran Canadian anti- apartheid activist and widely published author on Southern African affairs, reflects on his recent stay in South Africa After a term teaching sociology at the University of the Witwatersrand, my strongest impression of the new South Africa is just how easy, in many circles, it has become to be considered […]
Parks Mankahlana CROSSFIRE The Mail & Guardian carried an assessment on the first year of Thabo Mbeki’s presidency by Professor Sipho Seepe in which he shows total disregard for facts, logic, history and the obligation among scientists, natural or social, to add empirical value to national discourse. In his assessment of the presidency, Seepe alleges […]
Nicholas Lezard BODY LANGUAGE Jared Diamond asks an interesting question in the title of his recent book Why Is Sex Fun? To which the first answer could be: is it? I remember one bookshop which put The Joy of Sex in its fiction section. This is not just a joke. It illustrates that there are […]
A report released recently shows that Johannesburg women have accepted sexual abuse as the norm Brenda Atkinson Young women in greater Johannesburg’s Southern Metropolitan Local Council (SMLC) have internalised their daily risk of sexual assault to the extent that most do not even consider forced sex to fall within the definition of sexual violence. This […]
Barry Streek The Royal Dutch/Shell group has allocated R4,5-million to two South African educational programmes concerning energy use over the next three years. This is part of the new Shell Foundation, which has received initial funding of more than R200-million for social and environmental projects relating to energy use throughout the world and which was […]