STEFANO BLIN, London | Sunday 7.00pm. LESS than a minute into the fourth round match on Saturday night Prince Nasseem Hamed’s straight left caught Vuyani Bungu on the chin sending the 33-year sprawling onto the canvas. The knock out crowned Hamed’s 14th defence of the WBO featherweight crown with an electrifying performance. Hamed was always […]
SOUTH Africa under-23’S beat Ghana under-23’s 1-0 in an Olympic qualifier at Vosloorus Stadium in Johannesburg on Saturday.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Pointe-A-Pierre | Sunday 7.00pm. ALISTAIR Campbell completed his second consecutive century of Zimbabwe’s maiden tour of the Caribbean on Sunday to steer his team to safety against a West Indies President’s XI. Campbell was 111 not out at lunch on the third and penultimate day and his team were 297 for seven, 52 […]
HIMGANSHU WATTS, Jamshedpur | Sunday 6.00pm. INDIAN captain Saurav Ganguly hit an aggressive 105 not out to lead India to a six-wicket win in a one-day international against South Africa on Sunday and a 2-0 lead in the five-match series. South Africa, who won the toss and batted, were dismissed for 199 and India reached […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Sydney | Saturday 1.00pm. THE New South Wales Waratahs recorded their biggest win in four years on Saturday, thrashing the Cats 51-16 in a one-sided Super 12 clash at the Sydney Football Stadium. The Waratahs ran in six tries, including five in the second half, to register their biggest winning margin since the […]
ALAN BALDWIN, London | Friday 10.45am. NASEEM Hamed confidently predicted on Thursday that he would silence his critics and beat South Africa’s Vuyani Bungu in style when he defends his WBO featherweight title on Saturday. ”I do believe there’s going to be a stoppage or a knockout but I can’t give you a prediction of […]
Mail & Guardian journalist Donna Block has won the inaugural Citadel Personal Finance Journalist of the Year award for the print media category. The awards are given in two categories: print and electronic media. The judges decided the quality of entries into the latter category did not justify naming a winner. The overall award was […]
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Oliver Schmitz, director of the acclaimed Mapantsula, is making a new feature film after 13 years. But while the actors are local, the money is all foreign, reports Andrew Worsdale.
Mark Atkinson SHAREWORLD Nick Leeson may have been a brash, high-risk gambler prepared to bet Barings Bank on a rise in the Japanese stock market but, on the whole, London traders are a shy and conservative breed, according to new research published this week. Based on in-depth interviews with the London staff of four of […]