Deon Potgieter Boxing The cards will be stacked against Lehlo “Hands of Stone” Ledwaba at the Carousel, Pretoria, on Saturday night. He’ll be stepping into the ring against former World Boxing Association bantamweight world champion John Michael Johnson hoping to become the third South African this decade to hold the International Boxing Federation’s junior featherweight […]

With its quirky approach Chris du Plessis’s programme But Is It Art? has offended the `intellectuals’ of the art world. For him that might be it’s greatest success. Alex Dodd reports Chris du Plessis is on a rampage. “I think the intellectual influence on the arts is getting a bit much. There’s this whole, esoteric […]

Sue Williamson Art Dialogue is yet another initiative which had its germination in the Second Johannesburg Biennale in 1997. (A point worth making to all those with cultural money to allocate who consider biennales a waste of time and money). Ralph Seippel, who shows young international artists in his Cologne gallery, came to Johannesburg for […]

Mike Metelits I got my first Apple Macintosh back in 1986, when men were men and one megabyte was a staggering amount of RAM. Things have come a long way since then, and ”bigger, faster” has become a mantra in computer circles. No problem. The Macintosh plays the ”bigger, faster” game well, while falling down […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wentworth | Friday 3.30pm. ERNIE Els made a belated start to his British PGA championship preparations on Thursday after becoming a father for the first time. His wife Liezl gave birth to daughter Samantha in a Wentworth hospital on Wednesday. ”It’s our first child and we are really excited about it. I was […]

Howard Barrell The Angolan government is having difficulty finding the money to pay for a large consignment of arms it needs to mount a dry-season counter-offensive against Jonas Savimbi’s Unita rebels, according to regional security sources. The government has already postponed the counter-offensive once, and looks like having to do so again because of a […]

South African banks are trying to cater for two opposite worlds, reports Donna Block South African banking could be called an oxymoron. It’s like two worlds colliding -the rich and the poor, the developed and the undeveloped. The country boasts a world-class banking and financial system, however, the majority of the population remains unbankable. South […]

WEDNESDAY, 7.00PM: SOUTH AFRICA rattled up an impressive 283/7 in their alotted 50 overs against Minor Counties at a cold and blustery Stone on Wednesday, with veteran all-rounder Brian McMillan scoring 79 runs in his stand at the wicket. The 34-year-old, dropped for the one-day Texaco series, cracked seven fours and four sixes off the […]

TUESDAY, 6.30PM: A CONTINGENT of seven South Africans will compete in the 1998 African Weightlifting Championships in Algiers from the beginning of June. The competition will be unique in that female weightlifters will also be allowed to compete. The inclusion of two women, Bronwyn Gertse and Loriaan Daniels, in the South African side may be […]

LEICESTER manager Dean Richards on Monday backed new England captain Martin Johnson to make a success of his dramatic and sudden promotion following Lawrence Dallaglio’s decision to step down. British Lions skipper Johnson, who led Leicester to the Premiership title this season, takes charge of England following Dallaglio’s resignation, announced at Twickenham earlier on Monday. […]