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/ 1 December 2006
A new player has emerged on the perennially dysfunctional landscape that is South African football. Minister of Sport and Recreation Makhenkesi Stofile has always been vocal and contemptuous of the way the South African Football Association (Safa) administers the game.
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/ 1 December 2006
Wise heads have prevailed and the edict that says ”if it ain’t broke don’t fix it” has been applied. This time last year the obituary writers were dusting down their eulogies for the Nedbank Golf Challenge at Sun City, the corporate bean feast that morphed out of the ”Million Dollar”.
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/ 1 December 2006
Before the start of the series won on Wednesday night by the resurgent South Africans your correspondent forecast that India would be lucky to win two out of the five matches. In retrospect that prediction has been proved hopelessly off target: a whitewash is what they deserve, and if they scramble together a win at Centurion on Sunday, Graeme Smith’s team will feel justifiably robbed.
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/ 1 December 2006
Within the space of a few hours on Wednesday England coach Andy Robinson resigned, Springbok coach Jake White survived a vote of no confidence and Chiliboy Ralepelle became both the youngest (20) and the first black captain of the South African national side. It might be said that all three men are in invidious positions.
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/ 1 December 2006
Jacob Zuma’s friends in the business community, who were once at his beck and call and helped him live large, now appear to be preparing to jump ship.
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/ 1 December 2006
People who use Ecstasy for the first time could suffer impaired memory and harm to their brains, a new study of the dance drug’s effects reveals. Even low doses can cause changes to the brain, according to the first study to compare users before and after they took the drug for the first time. It found blood flow to parts of the brain was reduced and that users struggled in memory tests.
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/ 1 December 2006
If office colleagues begin to slide beneath their desks or flail hopelessly at out-of-reach keyboards, fear not. The latest medical advice on preventing back pain may be to blame. Using advanced scanning equipment, doctors have concluded that the best way to avoid back pain is not to sit bolt upright but to perfect a more laid-back posture, a sprawl that is halfway between upright and horizontal.
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/ 1 December 2006
University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN) acting deputy vice-chancellor Pumela Msweli-Mbanga has claimed that she was victimised after rebutting sexual advances by senior colleagues, and suggested that this lay behind problems she encountered in advancing her career at UKZN. The allegations are contained in Msweli-Mbanga’s complaint to the UKZN council in November, which the Mail & Guardian has seen.
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/ 1 December 2006
If a lump of alien goo landed in South Africa, as depicted in the movie Evolution, there would be no system to prevent it from invading the country and ”wiping the silly smile off our planet”. Leading scientists who spent years developing a national system to prevent invasions by alien species are dismayed that it has been dismissed by the department of environmental affairs and tourism.
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/ 1 December 2006
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The ”scandal” of poverty and Aids must be resolved by the international community, British Finance Minister Gordon Brown wrote in a special edition of the Independent, dedicated to World Aids Day, on Friday. Brown said that while the ”potential and promise of developing countries like those of the African continent is enormous … there are many challenges ahead, none more so than the impact of Aids”.