Staff fear that infighting and an ongoing financial crisis will soon lead to the TV station’s demise Glenda Daniels and David Macfarlane A “cowboy style” management dictates the running of e.tv, causing a massive staff turnover that threatens the survival of the free-to-air broadcaster, staff members say. The controversial three-year-old TV station is racked by […]

The Springboks embark on their end-of-year tour without the excuse that they’re in a rebuilding phase Andy Capostagno The itinerary may include Genoa and Houston, but the Springbok tour of 2001 can hardly be called a trip into the unknown. If anything, the players and management know rather too much about what to expect from […]

BOXING Deon Potgieter Saturday’s fight at Carnival City between World Boxing Union (WBU) featherweight champion Cassius Baloyi and WBU junior-lightweight champion Phillip Ndou is not only a contest between the two popular Northern Province boxers, it’s also a grudge match between their trainers. Baloyi’s trainer Brian Mitchell and Ndou’s Nic Durandt are known as the […]

Neil McIntosh Apple has unveiled a stylised, portable MP3 player that boasts what the company calls a “breakthrough” in storage space and industrial design. The iPod, roughly the same size as a pack of cards and weighing 0,23kg, sports a large five gigabyte hard disk, enough to store 1 000 songs. Apple also claims an […]

After a comprehensive win in the one-day series, South Africa are favoured to beat India in the Tests Peter Robinson After a week during which the Indian tour found itself bogged down in the slush at Chatsworth stadium, slightly better service should be resumed in Bloemfontein on Saturday with the start of the first Test […]

The award of a R10-billion contract for fighter trainers may be contested in court Paul Kirk One of the largest contracts awarded in South Africa’s R60-billion arms deal may be challenged in court by an Italian aeronautics company that lost out to a British contender after then-defence minister Joe Modise intervened to change the tender […]

More than R150-million worth of yacht has arrived in Cape Town in the past week John Young The Formula One of ocean racing decamped in Cape Town this week, but so far Capetonians have responded less with a buzz than with a purr. The arrival of the Illbruck, winner of the first leg of the […]

Hazel Friedman “Can I pour you a SADC special ? Or one of our alcohol-free independence day cocktails perfect for a sobering day?” I am sitting in a shebeen on the outskirts of Maseru. Three years ago, this was the watering hole of choice for journalists bored with sipping sundowners at the Lesotho Sun hotel. […]

Journalism,much like advertising and politics, is full of people who try to appear important while doing stupid things. Life, on the other hand, is full of people who appear stupid while doing important things. Your newspaper has built up a solid reputation as a first class award-winning pedlar of conceit. Mention a topic and the […]

Chievo Verona have enjoyed a fairy tale ride to the top of the Italian league Paddy Agnew in Rome A couple of seasons ago, when Hellas Verona clashed in a second division derby with little Chievo Verona, the fans of the better-known team taunted their upstart rivals with a derisive banner: ”When donkeys can fly, […]