WAYNE Ferreira, ranked twenty-three in the world, has sharpened his mental toughness by hiring Sweden’s Mats Wilander. Wilander, a multiple Grand Slam winner was renowned for his mental toughness which helped him take home no less than thirty-three career singles titles. Wilander joined Ferreira in Hamburg this week. “I decided to use Mats to help […]
CANTERBURY Crusaders scrumhalf Justin Marshall and lock Norm Maxwell have been ruled out of Saturday night’s Super 12 rugby semi-final against the Otago Highlanders in Christchurch. Both suffered calf muscle tears in training this week and were ruled out by medical staff after a fitness test. Ben Hurst will replace Marshall, while Chris Jack will […]
MIRIAM ISA, Pretoria | Friday 5.00pm. THE Reserve Bank left interest rates unchanged after its regular six-weekly meeting on Friday, but said it would not hesitate to tighten monetary policy if inflation continued to rise. ”The Monetary Policy Committee has decided to maintain its current policy stance,” the committee said in a statement released after […]
EMELIA SITHOLE, Johannesburg | Friday 5.00pm. US equity markets and local currency blues should continue setting the pace for the South African stock market next week with portfolio managers bracing for further volatility. Portfolio managers said although local equities looked relatively cheap following recent losses and a depreciating rand, investors were slow to take the […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT , Washington | Friday 9.00am. UNITED States President Bill Clinton called the border conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea ”senseless” and urged them to back down from armed confrontation. The two Horn of Africa nations, Ethiopia and Eritrea first came to blows two years ago when a dispute over border territory erupted into a […]
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Ridley Scott’s Roman epic, Gladiator, is a spectacular adventure movie, but it’s more than a homage to Hollywood’s past. Mark Morris says its real triumph is to reinvent a forgotten genre using visual verve and technical wizardry.
<b>Review: Bringing Out the Dead</b>
Twenty-five years after collaborating on Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese and Paul Schrader are together again with Bringing Out the Dead. Mark Morris welcomes back America’s greatest film-making duo.
ALL Blacks prop Kees Meeuws may have recovered sufficiently to play in the Super 12 rugby semifinal for the Highlanders against the Crusaders in Christchurch on Saturday. Hiighlanders coach Peter Sloane said on Tuesday that Meeus has an outside chance of making the team. Meeuws left the field against the Waratahs last Friday with a […]