EGYPTIAN customs officer Gamal El-Ghandour will make history when he officiates at the Spain-Norway match in Rotterdam on June 13 becoming the first non-European to referee a Euro 2000 tie. El-Ghandour’s participation follows an agreement between football’s governing bodies in Europe and Africa to exchange referees for their top competitions. French referee Alain Sars took […]
PROTEAS offspinner Nicky Boje says he has “no idea” why he is mentioned in the tapes in possession of New Delhi police — which upon their release in April triggered off one of cricket’s worst match-fixing scandals. Boje told the King Commission probing alleged match-fixing in cricket on Friday that disgraced former Proteas skipper Hansie […]
ELECTIONS set for next March in Lesotho will be delayed because proper preparations have not been done. Deputy Prime Minister Kelebone Maope said on Friday that if preparations had started in May, the elections could have been held in March or April next year but the present problems will delay the process. Maope said there […]
PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki signed the Skagen Declaration with Nordic prime ministers in Denmark on Thursday. The Nordic countries – Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden – have “noted the enormous challenges the African continent continues to face at the dawn of the 21st century”. Officials said it was agreed that the continent’s challenges call for […]
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Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH I was just telling myself that I was fed up to the teeth about whether “Africa” (one country) was a “lost continent” a “hopeless continent” or what have you, when the BBC asked me to appear on the TV programme, Newsnight, to discuss “the state of Africa”. As it […]
In South Africa tasks normally performed by coroner units are the job of policemen assigned to mortuaries Khadija Magardie Policemen assigned to the medico-legal services wing of the South African Police Service perform tasks that make them more suited to medical scrubs than blue uniforms. Among other things, they prepare bodies for the pathologist – […]
For one week during 1971 the small Free State town of Excelsior was crawling with reporters from all over the world. A sex ring had been uncovered in which local farmers and businessmen were engaged in steamy escapades with their black maids. Zakes Mda reports I have recently become a frequent visitor to Excelsior, since […]
Richard Bowker SLAVE TRADES AND AN ARTIST’S NOTEBOOK by Ari Sitas (Deep South) Ari Sitas’s new book, Slave Trades and An Artist’s Notebook, 190 pages long, .consists of just two poems – those of the title. Though geographically specific – the action of each poem takes in a ravaged and destabilised Ethiopia – the historical […]
In his exhibition with his partner Claire de Jong, Wayne Barker endeavours to be both sacrificial offering and high priest at the altar of truth Alex Sudheim Several years ago, on a cold winter’s night in downtown Johannesburg, I spent a few nervous hours with the vanguard of the South African avant-garde at a place […]