Deon Potgieter Boxing As the millennium is counted out amid an ignored controversy – most pundits agree that the next millennium starts on January 1 2001 – so too any selection of a top 10 has its controversies. Historically significant bouts of the millennium speak for themselves. James Couper vs Woolf Bendoff: July 26 1889 […]

Paul Kirk South Africans are increasingly using flaxseed oil capsules as an anti-malarial remedy amid false claims that scientists have vetted the drugs. The capsules have already proved popular in Johannesburg, and are now catching on fast in KwaZulu-Natal. But experts warned this week that the leaflets accompanying the drugs are “blatantly untrue” and are […]

Paul Kirk and Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Most of the fun in Durban will be centred around the city’s harbour, Africa’s busiest. But what was supposed to have been the star attraction in the bustling port – a replica of the Titanic – will not make the deadline. The ship has in fact not been […]

Adam Mars-Jones BODY LANGUAGE Mrs Patrick Campbell once famously said that she didn’t care what people did in the bedroom as long as they didn’t frighten the horses. Now it turns out that no human sexual act has much prospect of startling our animal cousins. In his astounding book, Biological Exuberance: Animal Homosexuality and Natural […]

Adam Haupt spoke to the mystical Bansuri flautist Deepak Ram about his new release, Searching for Satyam It is ironic that Deepak Ram’s new album, Searching for Satyam, is being released when it seems that music stores have only just recently started to promote Flute for Thought, Ram’s previous release. Tananas fans might remember Deepak […]

up? Radicals, revolutionaries and Tony Blair all lay claim to Christ. Peter Stanford asks who’s right Seated before a stage built to resemble a giant Christmas crib, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat on Saturday December 4 opened the millennium celebrations in the town of Bethlehem, where tradition has it that Christ was born. A band played […]

EMMA THOMASSON, Pretoria | Friday 8.30am THE government warned on Thursday that unless the European Union ratifies a long-awaited free trade deal soon, its implementation could not take place as planned next month. Trade and Industry Minister Alec Irwin said, however, that a short delay will not be a major tragedy. ”The EU must make […]

THE Virginia Regional Court on Wednesday imposed a R500000 fine on the management of Rovic diamond mine after 20 people were killed in a mudslide in November 1996, SABC radio news reported on Thursday. On December 1, the manager of the mine near Dealesville in the Free pleaded guilty to charges of manslaughter. Pieter Smith […]

SOUTH Africa were held to a 1-1 draw by Mozambique in their Cosafa Cup match at Orlando Stadium in Johannesburg on Tuesday. The locals took the lead when Eric Sono scored in the 60th minute, but 12 minutes later the scores were level when the visitors’ captain Amid Tarmomade got the ball past SA keeper […]