OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Sunday 11.00pm. SACHIN Tendulkar is to step down as India’s captain following the team’s disastrous performance under him on their recent tour of Australia. Tendulkar said on Sunday he would give up the job after the two-test home series against South Africa starting in Bombay on Thursday. He is staying on […]

TWO people were killed as tropical cyclone Eline battered the island of Madagascar, causing heavy damage to the capital Antananarivo and in two towns on the east coast, rescue services said on Friday. The victims died in a mudslide in Antananarivo, where trees were uprooted, roofs torn off and electricity and telephone lines cut when […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Saturday 11.00pm. SOUTH Africa made a solid start to their tour of India on Saturday, reaching 293 for six against an Indian Board XI. Openers Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs were soon into their stride and scored 104 for the first wicket. Kirsten was first out when he was beaten by […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bulawayo | Friday 6.45pm. ENGLAND muddled their way to a one wicket victory over Zimbabwe on Friday to take a 2-0 the four-match series. The tourists almost threw away a winning position at the Queen’s Sports Club when, with just 12 runs needed for victory and five wickets in hand, they lost four […]

After only two years, South African Rachelle Jonck has made a name for herself in New York’s opera world Coenraad Visser We meet at New York’s famous Carnegie Deli, appropriately across the street from the mecca of classical music. At the table next to us, an unsuspecting tourist ordered the house staple – pastrami on […]

Riaan Wolmarans CD OFTHEWEEK The Goo Goo Dolls made an impressive comeback in 1999 when their powerful ballad Iris shot up the charts after being featured in the filmCity of Angels. The success of their sixth album, Dizzy Up the Girl (Gallo), might have been attributed to the success of that track, but on closer […]

Ian Fife TAKING STOCK IT’S BEEN A WHILE SINCE SOUTH AFRICA’S LAST PROPERTY BOOM. THE LAST ONE PEAKED IN 1983, SO ALMOST EVERYBODY UNDER 40 HAS YET TO EXPERIENCE THIS KIND OF SOUL-STIRRING EVENT. THEN, ONLY WHITES COULD BUY GOOD PROPERTIES, SO MOST PEOPLE OVER 40 WERE SIDELINED AS WELL. A residential property boom is […]

Greek Goddess MAINROLE PLAYERS Kaizer Motaung Earned the name Chincha-Guluva – make a fool out of a defender – for his dribbling wizardry. Affectionately known as Boy-Boy, from childhood. Recruited into professional soccer – Orlando Pirates – by the late Eric “Scara” Sono, father to Jomo Sono. Left for the United States in 1969 to […]