PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki has ordered officials to toughen South Africa’s laws against child pornography, which is apparently flooding into the country via the Internet. Mbeki’s order follows the arrest last week of two media personalities for having a large amount of pornography in their home, allegedly bought over the Internet. Police have confirmed that a […]
SOUTH Africa’s bid to overturn the award of the 2006 Soccer World Cup to Germany has been dismissed by FIFA – but the world body has pledged to embrace the principle of rotating future finals around the continents. FIFA’s executive committee unanimously supported a proposal by president Sepp Blatter that, from 2010, the finals would […]
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Peter Robinson cricket A few years ago Fanie de Villiers argued that South Africans don+t quit. In his more recent incarnation as a TV presenter, De Villiers says lots of things and not all of them make immediate sense, but at Sydney in 1994 he was able to explain in a few short words exactly […]
polarisation Jaspreet Kindra The Azanian PeopleOs Organisation (Azapo) this week sidled up to the African National Congress, moving South African politics a small step closer to racial polarisation. AzapoOs shift dropping socialist militancy in favour of calls for racial solidarity is but one symptom of a growing racialisation of the countryOs public life. Calls for […]
The ever-popular Dingaan Thobela goes in search of a third world title next month Deon Potgieter Already a South African boxing legend, the -Rose of Soweto+, Dingaan Thobela, now stands on the verge of writing his name in the echelons of boxing history as an international legend. Thobela was all but written off by his […]
Brasse vannie Kaap+s new album, Yskoud, heads into sakkie-sakkie and hard rock territory. Adam Haupt spoke to them before their Oppikoppi and Belgium missions It+s an unusually warm winter+s day in Cape Town and I+m hanging out in a chicken joint with Brasse vannie Kaap+s (BVK) Fat and Ready D. The Brasse were a tad […]
Ria Ledwaba+s dream of top-flight soccer has come true as her team, Ria Stars, are in the premier league Merryman Kunene Being the youngest child and the only daughter in the Rasebotsa family, Ria Ivy Ledwaba+s formative years were heavily influenced by her soccer-mad brothers – who either played for or supported Pietersburg+s most famous […]