ITALY’S Max Biaggi endured a painful start to the world 500cc championship season in Friday’s first qualifying session for the South African Grand Prix. Biaggi, winner of last year’s race at the Phakisa Freeway circuit, was clearly feeling the effects of a recent groin injury as he finished ninth fastest in one minute 38.584 seconds. […]
MORE than 100 members of a Doomsday cult in southwestern Uganda died when they locked themselves in their makeshift church and set it ablaze in an apparent ritual mass suicide. “Some believers locked themselves in their makeshift church and many people died. The number is said to be about 100,” said police spokesman Eric Naigambi. […]
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Sowetan Ronnie Modimola has been performing stand-up comedy since 1997. He is fast becoming a well-known face on the growing comedy circuit in the country and last Saturday was seen at the Sun City Superbowl in Laughter Blaster, a major gathering of just about every local comedian worth his salt. Modimola’s routines are, however, in […]
Not one South African side won a Super 12 game last week – not even in the game between two local sides Andy Capostagno The long faces at the Newlands press conference said it all. And then referee Andre Watson spoke. “I don’t want to be negative, guys, but this was an atrocious game of […]
Alex Sudheim James Joyce had Ulysses wander the streets of Dublin in his majestic novel; William Kentridge took Faustus to Africa for the re-invention of conventional theatre and Akiro Kurosawa despatched King Lear to medieval Japan for the epic film Ran. So the concept of placing an antediluvian character in a contemporary context is not […]
Throughout history super soaraway shares have defied gravity – for a while Ben Laurance With the benefit of hindsight, the grass skirt should have been a giveaway. It was the mid-1980s and the investors’ love affair with biotechnology companies was at its most passionate. Robert Swanson, a venture capitalist by training, was chief executive officer […]
A new generation of adventure-holics has turned snowboarding into a mainstream sport Jean Spear James Bond has to be the greatest skier. From Siberia to Austria, 007 always manages to carve an elegant line while dodging bullets and saving beautiful women from nasty foreign agents at the same time. But if Bond is going to […]