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As Oliver Stone’s dissection of American football is released on circuit, Danny Leigh discovers it’s impossible to separate the film-maker from his films.
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Addis Ababa | Thursday 7.00pm. ETHIOPIA will succeed in averting famine threatening some eight million people, Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said on Thursday while rejecting criticism that its war with Eritrea had exacerbated the crisis. Speaking after meeting with the visiting director of the UN World Food Program Catherine Bertini, Meles said: “The […]
THE United States is considering sending more food relief to Ethiopia to help avert a massive famine, but criticised the Addis Ababa government for continuing to spend money on war its with Eritrea while its people suffer. “The causes of the famine are clearly primarily a drought caused by three years without rain… had the […]
A TEENAGER has stolen and flown a two-seater aeroplane just six weeks after he was arrested for stealing another plane. Police said on Wednesday that the boy, 16, convinced a security guard to let him onto the Witbank airfield in Mpumalanga and eventually asked for the keys to the duty room so he could use […]
OWN CORRESPONDEN, Cape Town | Thursday 5.45pm. THE Stormers’ impressive 39-18 win last week over the Blues led to much eating of humble pie in South Africa and abroad, as the team from Cape Town laid down the gauntlet and played some fine rugby to hold their very meagre play-off hopes alive. This week the […]
SOUTH Africa’s men’s hockey side courageously went down 3-2 to Germany in the second match of the men’s four-nations hockey tournament at the Perth Hockey Stadium on Wednesday night. It was Germany’s second success against South Africa inside a week, following their 5-1 win in Sydney last Thursday. Germany took a comfortable half-time lead with […]
ZOLILLE Mbityi will become the first boxer in the world to have a world title fight shown live exclusively on the internet. Mbityi defend his IBO flyweight world title on April 13 in London and the bout, which is being promoted by Frank Maloney and the fightnight website, could cause a revolution in the broadcast […]
A PROBE by the Department of Correctional Services has found that jailed AWB leader Eugene Terre’blanche received preferential treatment when he was transported from the Potchefstroom prison to an outside hospital. “It appears that proper prison administration and security measures were not properly followed and disciplinary action against personnel is underway,” the department said in […]
ZIMBABWE’S cricket chief says there is no possibility that his country’s players are involved in the bookmaking scandal surrounding South Africa’s sacked captain Hansie Cronje. “There is no possibility of our players having been involved,” Zimbabwe Cricket Union chief executive Dave Ellman-Brown said on Thursday. “We were part of the triangular tournament (with England and […]