GROUP 1 NIGERIA Previous appearances: 1962, 1970, 1974, 1978, 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994 Record: Played 50, won 23, drawn 15, lost 12, goals for 82, against 52 Best result: Sierra Leone 6-2 Worst result: Ghana 1-4 Key player: Midfielder Augustine Okocha Coach: Amodu Shaibu Rankings: 13 Africa, 63 world Nickname: Super Eagles GUINEA Appearances: 1974, […]

Mungo Soggot THE selection of Professor Sam Nolutshungu as the University of the Witwatersrand’s new vice-chancellor may have grabbed the headlines in South Africa, but it passed by the United States university town of Rochester. The local newspaper had not heard of Nolutshungu, a political science professor at Rochester, never mind his sensational victory before […]

Joshua Amupadhi THE 17 universities and technikons created for blacks are struggling to survive in the post-apartheid era. Some face closure unless drastic rescue efforts are put in train. About 100 000 students are at the universities with more than 30 000 at the technikons. The warning about their plight comes from Professor Cecil Abrahams, […]

The soldiers of Five Recce have never hesitated when it comes to charging into battle, but the regiment has been more tentative in adapting to change in South Africa, writes Stefaans Brmmer PHALABORWA is the type of mining town where streets are still named after the likes of presidents Steyn and Kruger. Its burghers give […]

Rehana Rossouw PEOPLE Against Gangsterism and Drugs (Pagad) campaign in Cape Town is beginning to affect police attempts to combat crime, the South African Police Service (SAPS) claimed this week. Western Cape police representative, senior superintendent John Sterrenberg, said between April and last week Pagad held 43 demonstrations and marches which have been policed by […]

Claudia Braude PRIOR to one of the lectures of the three candidates for the position of vice- chancellor at Wits last week, I bumped into Professor Alan Kemp, deputy vice-chancellor. The last time I’d seen him he was in the process of reviewing the continued viability of Wits University Press. “Have you succeeded in shutting […]

A new Johannesburg studio is moving body- piercing and fetishism into the mainstream. DROR EYAL pops by for a prick EVERYWHERE you go nowadays there are little techno babes in uncomfortable shoes, trying to score E, flashes of bare midriffs revealing discreet little navel rings. The happy shiny kids of tomorrow. Faceless techno music blasting […]

CAPTAIN Winston Scott, pilot astronaut, epitomises the new breed of astronaut now working at Nasa. His resum lists a set of intimidating accomplishments, from a first degree in music to a masters in aeronautical engineering, a career as a navy pilot, and then a mission specialist aboard the Endeavour for a nine-day space flight. He […]

Marion Edmunds TWO former intelligence agents – a man and his wife – who were fired after refusing to take a prescribed oath of loyalty to the 1994 transitional authority, are suing the government for more than a million rands for unfair dismissal. Papers have been filed in the Pretoria Supreme Court by Susan and […]

No Bjork and a lacklustre foreign line-up drove DROR EYAL to the second stage at the year’s biggest concert I WAS converted. I went down to see this over-hyped monument to PC rock, the 5fm Birthday Concert at Kyalami last weekend, plunging myself into an audience of 40 000 odd people and their collective sweat […]