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/ 24 November 2006
Julian Jonker explores the reasons why Cape Town loves a good summer street bash.
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/ 24 November 2006
Mpumalanga will continue to have poor matric results unless the government implemented a comprehensive education rescue plan, the Democratic Alliance said on Thursday. ”Information obtained by the DA indicate that the results for June exams are extremely poor and improvement in the 2006 matric results may be minimal, if any,” DA spokesperson on education Anthony Benadie said.
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/ 24 November 2006
An international arrest warrant against nine close aides of Rwanda’s Tutsi President, Paul Kagame, on a charge of participating in the assassination of former Hutu leader Juvenal Habyarimana in April 1994 has led to a new diplomatic war over Rwanda. A French judge this week ordered the arrest of nine high-ranking Rwandan officials.
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/ 24 November 2006
England lost three wickets in the last hour before stumps to crash to 53-3 in reply to Australia’s commanding 602-9 declared on the second day of the first Ashes Test on Friday. Glenn McGrath dismissed England openers Andrew Strauss and Alastair Cook in successive balls before Stuart Clark removed Paul Collingwood to leave the tourists reeling.
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/ 24 November 2006
On a murky November afternoon in 1953 Ferenc Puskas, who died in Budapest last Friday aged 79, helped to rouse English football from a complacency born of insularity and blinkered thinking. The awakening was rude and embarrassing. In winning 6-3, Puskas’s Hungarians not only became the first foreign team to beat England at Wembley; they changed English football thinking forever.
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/ 24 November 2006
Iceland and a few other fishing nations have successfully undermined a three-year international effort to place a moratorium on destructive deep-sea trawling. Critics say the agreement reached at a United Nations meeting on Thursday puts the commercial interests of a few hundred trawlers ahead of the international community.
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/ 24 November 2006
South Africans should not be surprised at the anger and brutality that was sweeping the streets when they continued to refuse to acknowledge the socio-economic inequalities in the country, Dr Mamphela Ramphele said on Thursday. Ramphele was speaking in Cape Town at a conference reflecting on the work of the former Truth and Reconciliation Commission.
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/ 24 November 2006
Football and art have yet to really make a connection. Horse racing and cricket, athletics and even golf have made it into the classical arena, but football has been left behind. The few examples of football and art that I have seen tend to be static and devoid of feeling — the antithesis of the game itself.
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/ 24 November 2006
In football, teams are not given nicknames such as ”Glamour Boys” and ”Bold and the Beautiful” for fun. They are awarded such praise names because of their ability to outplay the opposition at all times. But victory often depends not just on the quality of the first-choice line-up, but on the balance and depth of the squad — giving a team the ability to rise from the dead, if you like.
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/ 24 November 2006
It is a contest older than the modern Olympic Games, older by far than football’s World Cup. The Ashes, created in 1882, may not enjoy the global reach of those other great international tournaments but to the participants, two nations with long sporting pedigrees, they represent a biennial journey, interrupted only by baser conflicts, through the peaks and troughs of every conceivable emotion.