A BLISTERING 99 by Romesh Kaluwitharana launched Sri Lanka to a series-clinching six-wicket win over Zimbabwe in the fourth one-day international in Harare on Saturday. Zimbabwe totalled 260 for four to which Sri Lanka replied with 262 for four in 44.4 overs to win with 32 balls to spare. Kaluwitharana scored his runs off just […]

NEIL MANTHORP, East London | Saturday 7.00pm. ENGLAND’S bowlers battled under a blazing sun as a Border/Eastern Province combined XI reached an impressive 331 for five on the first day of their four-day match at Buffalo Park on Saturday. A perfect batting pitch offered little help to the England seamers who toiled as local men […]

Khadija Magardie talks to an artist who is using music to take religion to the youth When Shaheed GC embraced the Islamic faith at the age of 16, he thought he had firmly closed the door on a singing career that began in his early teens. At the time, he says, he felt that music, […]

Q&A Pop star Ringo Madlingozi will perform at the Union Buildings on New Year’s Eve. He tells us about his new single, his attitude to life and love, and his hopes for the new millennium. What can you say about your new single Into Yam? The song brings that kind of vibe that has always […]

dispute Fiona Macleod A magnificent environmental education and conference centre is falling through the cracks of the dispute between Mpumalanga and Northern Province authorities about who owns the Bushbuckridge Nature Reserve. Mpumalanga spent R2-million on the centre, which is inside the reserve, but stopped building when it became clear the reserve falls within Northern Province. […]

On a typical Wednesday night of knocking over illegal brewing stands and closing down shebeens, Aaron Nicodemus went on a ride-along with the Hillbrow liquor control unit Alexander “Big Alex” Kavouras plucks at two carnations with his thick fingers as police cart away R25E000 worth of his liquor . The flowers’ red petals litter the […]

The 30 articles of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights have been interpreted by artists from 28 countries, writes Alex Sudheim As a measure of the significance of the International Print Portfolio exhibition, the United Nations was eager for the show to grace the proceedings at the world body’s New York headquarters during its recent […]

Sudan Mohamed Osman in Khartoum Sudanese president Omar el-Bashir on Sunday declared a three-month state of emergency, and state-run television said he was dissolving Parliament. Bashir said:”There are dangers against the country from abroad, and internal problems that will aggravate the country’s problems will not be allowed. In order to preserve the unity of the […]

Kit Peel Linda Shaw’s Horoscope 2000, published last month, reveals a neurotic, feminine country in the hands of a man of overwhelming masculinity – a virile, dominant man handling a country with very low self- esteem. It’s Cosmopolitan magazine meets the cosmos, and it’s a lot of fun. Little Miss South Africa, let us call […]

David Le Page It has been announced that the Internet, which is changing the way we work, play and seek sex, will also save the world. At least, it will slow down the United States’s generous and unstinting contributions to global warming. This is the finding of a report from the Centre for Energy and […]