Neil Manthorp Cricket A “Carnival of Cricket” indeed. The organisers’ slogan for this tournament might even have worked if the competition had not turned so quickly into a circus, and a badly organised one at that. The opening ceremony produced more laughs than a red-nosed clown and World Cup simply hasn’t looked back, err, forward […]
Ivor Powell More than 20 senior leaders of the Inkatha Freedom Party in KwaZulu-Natal have secretly defected to the African National Congress before the June election. A top ANC leader in the province told the Mail & Guardian that at least six of the turncoats are members of the KwaZulu-Natal legislature. The group also includes […]
THE task team which was appointed to investigate axing of employees at the South Africa Broadcasting Corporation, including that of journalist Max du Preez, has defined its terms of reference, the SABC board announced on Wednesday. The investigation will include the failure to renew Du Preez’s contract. Du Preez presented the award winning programme Special […]
The African National Congress has made a contribution second to none in creating and safeguarding the political peace in South Africa.
Aaron Nicodemus Reports that an Ebola-like virus was brought home by Zimbabwean soldiers are false, say the World Health Organisation (WHO) and Zimbabwe health officials. Dr Moudi Abdou, WHO representative in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, says the virus has been contained within the Congo, and that no new cases have appeared since April […]
Y Abba Omar Crossfire Being a public servant and, more importantly, being part of the government’s communication system, it is only when I came across the words of James Fallows that I felt encouraged to write this piece. Fallows wrote in Breaking the News: ”In response to suggestions that the press has failed to meet […]
leader The Griqua people have a long history of dispossession. Now, with political parties courting their vote, the y are asking some searching questions about themselves. John Matshikiza went looking for the people and their leaders A quiet drama unfolds in a small room in a building squashed between the police station and the Mary […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Johannesburg | Thursday 9.30am. SUNDOWNS kept their hopes very much alive of retaining the Castle Premier League title when they outplayed AmaZulu 3-1 at the King’s Park Rugby Stadium in Durban on Wednesday night. Kaizer Chiefs must play Dynamos, and Sundowns have two games in hand to make up the six points separating […]
PRESIDENT Nelson Mandela on Wednesday conferred the Order of Good Hope on visiting Saudi Arabian crown prince Abdullah Bin Abdulaziz Al-Saud, and chose the occasion to highlight South Africa’s hopes of a resumption in the Middle East peace process. The crown prince arrived in South Africa on Wednesday on a six-day official visit during which […]
IVORIAN and French firemen finally on Tuesday extinguished a fire which has been raging in an oil depot since last week in the capital Abidjan. Abidjan residents were surprised by the fire outbreak last Thursday afternoon by at the depot of Cote d’Ivoire’s Security Petrol Stock, located at the Vridi Industrial zone, where 30000 metric […]