OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cardiff | Saturday 7.05pm. AUSTRALIA have won the World Cup final 35-12 on Saturday, making history as the first team to win it twice and the first country to be champions in both rugby and cricket. Both sides traded penalties, until Wallaby winger Ben Tune scored the first try in a World Cup […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cardiff | Friday 4.00pm. AUSTRALIAN fullback Matt Burke has jumped to the defence of much-maligned northern hemisphere rugby. Australia, New Zealand and South Africa have done their utmost to make World Cup 1999 an exclusive Tri Nations affair, and will fill three of the top four places. France are shock finalists, courtesy of […]

WEST Indian quickie Kenny Benjamin vindicated the Gauteng selectors decision to include him in the starting line-up, after only arriving in the country on Tuesday, by ripping into the heart of the Easterns innings on the second day of their SuperSport Series match at the Wanderers on Friday. The lanky Antiguan brought back memories of […]

JOHN MEHAFFEY, Cardiff | Friday 11.30am. WITH perfect timing the elements of form, fitness, organisation and luck have combined for Australia to make them deserved favourites for Saturday’s World Cup final against France. Their immediate concern is coping with opponents who can make a mockery of any form guide, throwing logic out of the window […]

The assassination of Major Wezi Kaunda this week could have been a pre-emptive move to prevent an Angolan-backed coup d’tat in Zambia. Ivor Powell, Chris Gordon and Howard Barrell report Zambia is a political powder keg following the murder on Wednesday night of Major Wezi Kaunda, son of former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda. The Mail […]

balls Connie Selebogo South Africa’s bid to host the 2006 Soccer World Cup is not a big issue to women soccer players, who believe they are discriminated against and neglected by the South African Football Association (Safa). It’s been a year since the South African women’s soccer team, Banyana Banyana, has been seen in action. […]

The third International Design Indaba was awash with promotional bumf and misplaced sincerity, writes Simon Waden It is a sign of our speeded-up and hyper- connected times that the new authenticity has arrived in South Africa a mere year or two after it arrived in North America and the United Kingdom. We’re no longer five […]

Donna Block SHARE WORLD The Victoria’s Secret supermodels, objects of fantasy for millions, are at it again. This time, in May, from the playground of the rich and famous, Cannes. The lingerie company’s next fashion show and live webcast of buxom beauties strutting their stuff will be on a runway in the midst of one […]

In writing about the new SABC2 series Saints, Sinners and Settlers (Mondays, 20:00), I must admit to feeling a little like the ham in the sandwich. One slice of the loaf against which I nestle is, of course, my integrity as a critic (I know that sounds like a contradiction in terms, but little flakes […]

Bob Woolmer FROM THE PAVILION If we are to believe everything that we read and hear, the worst England side in its history has arrived on South African shores. South Africa should therefore blow England away in the next three months. However, reality will be different. England are a group of determined sportsmen who have […]