NIGERIAN striker Victor Ikpeba was slammed with a $7500 fine by Borussia Dortmund coach Bernd Krauss for remarks made to Sport-Bild magazine on Tuesday. Ikpeba unleashed a scathing attack on his team-mates, saying: “Many players here are at the end of their careers and don’t have the necessary ambition to succeed.” When asked if he […]
THERE has been a major shake-up in the Griquas rugby team that will play Namibia in Windhoek on Saturday. A number of regulars, including hooker and skipper, Luther Bakkes, prop De Waal Venter, loose forward Pierre Uys, former Namibian forward Herman Lintvelt and scrum-half Christoff Lotter find themselves on the reserve bench. A number of […]
ITALY’S Max Biaggi endured a painful start to the world 500cc championship season in Friday’s first qualifying session for the South African Grand Prix. Biaggi, winner of last year’s race at the Phakisa Freeway circuit, was clearly feeling the effects of a recent groin injury as he finished ninth fastest in one minute 38.584 seconds. […]
MORE than 100 members of a Doomsday cult in southwestern Uganda died when they locked themselves in their makeshift church and set it ablaze in an apparent ritual mass suicide. “Some believers locked themselves in their makeshift church and many people died. The number is said to be about 100,” said police spokesman Eric Naigambi. […]
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Sowetan Ronnie Modimola has been performing stand-up comedy since 1997. He is fast becoming a well-known face on the growing comedy circuit in the country and last Saturday was seen at the Sun City Superbowl in Laughter Blaster, a major gathering of just about every local comedian worth his salt. Modimola’s routines are, however, in […]
Not one South African side won a Super 12 game last week – not even in the game between two local sides Andy Capostagno The long faces at the Newlands press conference said it all. And then referee Andre Watson spoke. “I don’t want to be negative, guys, but this was an atrocious game of […]
Alex Sudheim James Joyce had Ulysses wander the streets of Dublin in his majestic novel; William Kentridge took Faustus to Africa for the re-invention of conventional theatre and Akiro Kurosawa despatched King Lear to medieval Japan for the epic film Ran. So the concept of placing an antediluvian character in a contemporary context is not […]