gets the monkey off his back Neil Manthorp in Auckland Cricket The heaviest burden in sport is the weight of expectation, and the heaviest burden of all is the one you place on yourself. Sons of great sportsmen are understood to suffer in the shadow of their fathers, but the truth is different. They place […]
The date burns in the mind of Formula One executives and tobacco manufacturers like a glowing snout. On October 1 2006, the chequered flag will fall on cigarette sponsorship of the sport, and possibly not only in Europe. Now, with the opening of the 1999 season at Melbourne’s Albert Park this weekend, Formula One must […]
Two views of a new book that looks at the legacy of the mythical first woman – and what men have made of her FOR Natasha Fairweather THE STORY OF EVE by Pamela Norris (Picador) The history of human society might have followed a rather different course if the theologians of both the Jewish and […]
CD of the week:Neil Spencer Even in their prime, Blondie always were better at making singles than albums. It’s Picture This, Heart of Glass and Rapture for which the New York New Wavers are celebrated, not Parallel Lines or Eat to the Beat. Reconvened 16 years after their acrimonious split amid the usual regroup talk […]
WESTERN Province captain Craig Matthews and Border’s Makhaya Ntini have bowed out with injuries from the five-day Supersport Series cricket final which starts in East London on Thursday. Matthews has been suffering from an ankle injury while Ntini, who failed a fitness test on Thursday morning, has a hip strain. Ryan Joffe comes in for […]
THREE of Russia’s best pole vaulters will be in South Africa to test Okkert Brits during the Engen Grand Prix Summer Series. Vadim Strogolev, Yevgeny Smiryagin and Pavel Burlatsenko have confirmed their participation in Pietersburg on March 13, Roodepoort on March 19 and in Cape Town on March 26. Joining them will be woman highjumper […]
SMALLHOLDER Nicholas Steyn was on Thursday convicted in the Delmas Circuit Court of culpable homicide for shooting dead six-month-old baby Angelina Zwane last April, SABC radio news reports. Angelina was being carried on her 11-year-old cousin Fransina Dlamini’s back when Steyn (43) shot at them on his plot near the East Rand town of Benoni, […]
Emeka Nwandiko It is 1pm and a muezzin issues a wailing call to prayer from a mosque in Dlamini. The faithful come from all around – Klipspruit, Rockville, Meadowlands – to give praise to Allah. But being Muslim in Soweto requires more than His Mercy. “It is difficult to be a Muslim because people think […]
David Larsen The last undeveloped estuary on South Africa’s east coast could be ruined by a multi-million dollar hotel development, says the National Environmental Action Group. Durban-based developer Crane Africa, in partnership with Singapore-based Aman Resort Group, has proposed a 100-bed hotel on the dune above the Kosi Bay mouth. “The mouth is rated foremost […]
UGANDAN troops have killed 10 more Rwandan Hutu extremists suspected of having taken part in the massacre of eight foreign tourists in Uganda, a military source said on Friday. The Hutus, members of the Interahamwe youth militia held partly responsible for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, were killed 15km across the border inside the Democratic Republic of […]