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. […]
THE appeal of former president PW Botha (83) against his conviction for ignoring a Truth and Reconciliation Commission subpoena was postponed to be heard in the Cape High Court on Friday. The postponement is to allow for outstanding matters. Botha was convicted last August for ignoring a summons to testify to the commission, thereby contravening […]
SOUTH African national under-23 coach Shakes Mashaba wants total commitment from his young Bafana Bafana for their first leg Olympic qualifier against Togo in Lome on June 13. “We will focus on tactical and technical work before we leave for Togo and will only play against local teams during our preparations for two weeks,” Mashaba […]
A PETROL bomb has exploded at the house of a leader of South Africa’s United Democratic Front in Nyanga, a black suburb of Cape Town, police said on Wednesday. Nobody was injured in the attack on Erasmus Ndakane’s home in the area where five politicians have been killed in the run-up to South Africa’s June […]