Robert Kitson in London Rugby World Cup Like one of those artworks that Rolf Harris used to specialise in, the Rugby World Cup remains a strangely dislocated blend of coloured dots, splashes and drips as it pauses for breath. Not much shape to anything, unless you count that ominous black streak running through the middle, […]

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH We were at the end of the interview on BBC World TV. We’d been talking about Julius Nyerere. To round off, the interviewer asked, me, “So what would you say was his one great legacy to Africa and the world?” I couldn’t answer the question! “You can’t credit him […]

Risk on investments can be measured, claim the experts, enabling us to identify which risks have tended to deliver the rewards. Dave Bradfield explains how this is done Last year’s crash on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange (JSE) highlighted once more that the additional returns investors seek on the JSE (over and above the promise of […]

FLANKER David Wilson gave Australia a morale-boost on Friday when he passed a fitness test and was confirmed in the Wallaby team to face Wales in the first World Cup quarter-final at the Millennium Stadium on Saturday afternoon. Wilson, who is playing in his third World Cup tournament, passed a test on an ankle he […]

ENGLISH fly-half Jonny Wilkinson has failed to make the starting line-up for Sunday’s World Cup quarter-final against reigning champions South Africa at the Stade de France. Wilkinson, who was replaced after a heavy tackle from Fiji skipper Greg Smith during Wednesday’s quarter-final victory at Twickenham, is among England’s substitutes. Wing Dan Luger has recovered from […]

SPRINGBOK centre Brendan Venter on Thursday lost his appeal against a 21-day ban for stamping, World Cup organisers said. The decision, taken at a meeting of the tournament disciplinary committee at Twickenham, means Venter will not be available for Sunday’s quarter-final against England in Paris. Venter was sent off just before halftime in Friday’s group […]

LAWRENCE BARTLETT, Harare | Friday 7.30pm EMPLOYERS and workers alike on Friday slammed the Zimbabwean government’s budget for 2000, saying it fails to address the country’s worst economic crisis since independence nearly 20 years ago. The powerful Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) stated that workers “will not accept additional burdens” — a reference to […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Washington | Friday 9.15am. SOUTH African Anglican Archbishop Desmond Tutu underwent exploratory cancer surgery on Thursday at the Emory University Hospital in Atlanta in the southern US state of Georgia. The surgery “was to see where the cancer spread, and determine what kind of future treatments are necessary,” said hospital spokeswoman Michelle Stevenson. […]

THE chair of the South African Football Association Women’s Football Committee Nastasia Tsichlas has resigned. Safa said on Thursday it has received and “regretfully” accepted the resignation, effective immediately. No reason for the resignation has been given. “Safa is very pleased to reaffirm its confidence in the women’s football committee and shall soon announce the […]

AN exchange of state visits between South Africa and China are being planned, Chinese Vice Foreign Affairs Minister Ji Pei Ding said in Pretoria on Thursday. No date has however been set for the visits. The two deputy ministers said there will be closer bilateral cooperation between their countries in the future, despite the fact […]