MUCH was made of the importance of winning the toss before the cricket World Cup, with commentators predicting many matches could be decided by it. Sides put in by the opposition, the argument ran, would be at a major disadvantage, battling to survive as swing and seam bowlers exploited wickets made lively by early-morning moisture. […]
WHEN Lehlohonolo Ledwaba steps into the ring against Texan John Michael Johnson at the Carousel in Hammanskraal on Saturday night, he will be fighting for more than the vacant IBF junior featherweight crown. Ledwaba will not only be striving to maintain the South African monopoly on the title, he’ll also be aiming to keep it […]
INDIAN opener Saurav Ganguly’s 183 against Sri Lanka on Wednesday was the second highest individual score in World Cup history. Only Gary Kirsten’s 188 not out against the United Arab Emirates in 1996 surpassed it in World Cup play. Ganguly made it to fourth on the all-time one-day total list. Pakistan’s Saeed Anwar’s 194 against […]
John Matshikiza With the Lid Off Isn’t there a fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm in which a young lad goes off into the world to seek his fortune, admonishing his old mother, who is not very bright, to make sure that she always locks the door securely when she goes out? And doesn’t the […]
Evidence wa ka Ngobeni The management of the Rand Afrikaans University (RAU) has agreed to pay compensation to victims of vicious assaults by the protection services on the campus. RAU management has bowed to pressure from black students, who have called on the Human Rights Commission (HRC) to probe human rights violations against them. Last […]
Donna Block The bullion price has sunk to new 20-year lows amid heavy fund selling, and the barbarians are at the gate once again. Most analysts agree the short-term outlook for gold is decisively negative. Traders, speculators and hedge funds are taking advantage of that negative sentiment and keeping the downward pressure on the metal […]
THURSDAY, 1.30PM: THE Sports Ministry mooted legislation on Wednesday enabling it to intervene in sports affairs “when things go wrong”. The Sports and Recreation Department is responsible for promoting sports and recreation, but has no statutory authority to do so. In addition, the duplication of the functions of the department and those of other sports […]
Aids was a topic this week on SAfm’s morning talk show, hosted by Tim Modise. Donald G McNeil Jnr responds to some of the issues raised Dear Tim Modise, Iam the New York Times reporter who wrote the story about chimpanzees that are the source of the Aids virus being shot for the pot in […]
Phillip vanNiekerk >From the Editor’s Desk Back in 1987 I helped a friend who was standing for the Labour Party in the northern England seat of Grimsby in the election of that year. The constituency organiser was a man whose day job was a garbage collector for the council and he had a grimy set […]
Doris Lessing joined the communist party in Rhodesia, left two children to go to England, and then explored mysticism. Emma Brockes finds the iconoclastic author has a talent to explore, move on and surprise It was in a caf in Bulawayo, Southern Rhodesia, that Doris Lessing received her first, rather clumsily delivered death threat. This […]