Andrew Muchineripi : Boxing What does the future hold for newly-crowned WBU heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders? The 31-year-old Pretoria southpaw completely overshadowed American Ross Puritty in a non-contest at the Carousel last Saturday and set himself up for an encounter with a champion of another organisation, probably at the same venue next February. IBF junior […]

FRIDAY, 5.30PM: PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe met with war veterans on Friday to reveal how he plans to pay them despite a lack of ready funds. He urged the veterans to accept gratuities in the form of government bonds, rather than cash. The payout, which will recompense 40 000 liberation soldiers, is expected to amount to […]

FRIDAY, 8.50AM: The morale in the South African rugby camp is very high following the availablity of flanker Johan Erasmus for the second and final Test against France on Saturday. Erasmus, who suffered spasms on Wednesday, did not practise with the squad for the second successive day on Thursday. “He was excused from practice today, […]

A boy found in the wild 10 years ago and placed in care still behaves like a monkey, writes Wonder Hlongwa It has been a decade since a five-year-old boy suspected of living with monkeys was discovered in Sundumbili in KwaZulu-Natal. He has been in professional care ever since, but still behaves more like a […]

We profile the four winners of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award Aubrey Sekhabi, 28-year-old winner of the 1998 Standard Bank Young Artist Award for Drama, is “a relentless, tenacious spirit”, says Dan Robbertse of the Performing Artists Workers Equity. “He’s been doing great work in North West province as drama director with very […]

Gustav Thiel : Cricket Professional sportsmen never want to retire. If they had their way, they would play into their graves. Cricketers are no exception, which is why a bunch of the world’s top players of yesteryear are now considering starting a seniors league similar to those already flourishing in golf and tennis. Talk of […]

With the launch of a guild for South African animators, Tube’s cutesies on TV and Disney’s Hercules opening next week, we take a look at the world of animation Andrew Worsdale The South African Guild of Animators was officially launched a fortnight ago at this year’s Film and TV Market in Cape Town. Chairman Ron […]

Angella Johnson It was a sunny spring day in September when Andr Swart and his wife Lenie drove through the manicured grounds of their sprawling commercial farm. They had been to church, a high point of the weekly social calendar for their tight-knit Afrikaner farming community. As their car pulled into the garage four men […]

Police and women in Alexandra are working together to combat rape in the township, writes Lizeka Mda Put yourself in Josina Matangala’s shoes and you’ll want to scream. One Saturday night two months ago, a man she had seen around Alexandra township burst into her shack where she was sleeping with her two- year-old daughter […]

Lesley Cowling Mojalefa Murphy, one of the country’s rare black nuclear physicists who has been suspended by the Atomic Energy Corporation, hit back in the Pretoria High Court this week with a bitter attack on the AEC’s chief executive, Waldo Stumpf. Murphy, who was meant to be the new face of the AEC, has been […]