Clive Simpkins Talk about tweaking the tiger’s, or is it the pussycat’s, tail? There were howls of protest from the advertising industry at my comments in the February 17 column Selling with a nudge and a wink, on phallic or sexist advertising, defending their use of it in order to “stand out in a crowd”. […]
GOLF: Jon Swift WHILE this country basks in the glow of a memorable inaugural win in the Alfred Dunhill Challenge at Houghton, there are some areas which requrie some thought before next season’s professional tour kicks for next year, there is no Dunhill Challenge to take the edge off some of the problems which lurk […]
THREE times British wrestling champion Dave Morgan promises to have his opponent carried out of the ring in a coffin when he meets India’s Gama Singh at Turffontein’s Wembley Indoor Arena on Friday night. Described by promoters as a wrestling explosion, this is the first South African event to attract five international wrestlers. Four of […]
SAILING: Jonathan Spencer Jones AFTER 29 days and 16 hours at sea, Frenchman Christophe Auguin on Sceta Calberson arrived in Punta del Este, Uruguay, to win the third leg of the BOC Challenge singlehanded around the world race with a new record, some one day 11 hours better than the previous record set by compatriot […]
Late bloomer: Bungu can add to belated acclaim against BOXING: Gavin Evans VUYANI “The Beast” Bungu is a young man who was groomed to be one of life’s worthy supporting acts, and yet has somehow risen to the foothills of fame, fortune and more than a dollup of mass acclaim. Of all South Africa’s boxing […]
Winnie’s fall could spell the end of the populist elite in the ANC, report Stefaans Brummer and Eddie THE fall of Winnie Mandela may sound the death knell for the “populist” faction within the ANC and could have strong repercussions, reaching as far as the race for succession to President Nelson Mandela. The extraordinary occurrence […]
Gaye Davis A BID to democratise the selection of a new rector for the University of the Western Cape appears to have backfired. While a decision is expected next week, the process has sharply divided the campus community. UWC’s founding statute was specially amended to throw open the selection process to include workers, students, academics […]
Bulelwa Payi in Grahamstown IT’S back to square one for Rhodes University in its search for a vice-chancellor. When the university council met on Thursday, it was to be asked to reconstitute the selection process for the vice- chancellor, said a source who asked not to be named. A senate meeting held on Wednesday “unanimously” […]
It’s been a long season for South Africa’s cricketers and in their final match they have a tough task against New Zealand CRICKET: Krish Mi’rams SOUTH AFRICA’s final international appointment of the 1994/95 season will be, perhaps, their most difficult assignment. On the face of it New Zealand would not seem to pose too many […]
Sugar cane fields are at the centre of a conflict involving a Natal community which says it has been left out of the land-restitution process. Weekly Mail THE electricity poles disappear on the road to Ezimwini just before the tarred road turns to dust, but sugar cane cloaks the surrounding hills almost to the first […]