FIONA MACLEOD, Johannesburg | Friday 10.20am CONTROVERSIAL wildlife dealer Riccardo Ghiazza is wanted in Italy by Interpol for a six-month jail sentence for drug smuggling. He was also under police investigation for ”criminal conspiracy and drug violations” in the mid- to late 1980s. Police sources in Italy say ”a Ghiazza, first name Riccardo, born September […]

FORMER President Nelson Mandela has bought a R4.5-million house in Cape Town’s exclusive suburb of Bishopscourt, Business Day newspaper reported Thursday. Unnamed sources in the property industry were quoted as saying Mandela had acquired the single story, four bedroom house from Mike Levett, the millionaire chairman of Old Mutual, the country’s largest financial services company. […]

NORTHERNS had stretched their lead to 262 by the close of the second day on Friday and there seems no way back into this match for Easterns. They dug their grave when they were able to resist the Northerns attack for just 47 overs. Clinical bowling by Steve Elworthy, Greg Smith and David Townsend, who […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, St Andrews | Friday 9.15am. DEFENDING champions South Africa battled back to beat outsiders China 2-1 in the Alfred Dunhill Cup on Thursday after trailing in all three matches for 11 holes. All eight seeded teams won on the opening day, six of them by 2-and-1 margins. Ernie Els, David Frost and Retief […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Edinburgh | Thursday 5.00pm. THE tantalising possibility of the Springboks fielding four black players simultaneously was raised when coach Nick Mallett named his side to play Spain on Sunday. Mallett confirmed the team named on ZA*SPORT on Tuesday but it was the inclusion of Deon Kayser among the replacements that prompted the speculation. […]

MICHAEL VLISMAS, Cape Town | Saturday 7.15pm. SEAN Ludgater literally climbed out of his sickbed to post a four-under par 68 and lead the Vodacom Tour’s R200000 Vodacom Series: Western Cape by two shots at the Rondebosch Golf Club on Saturday. Ludgater, now on 11-under par 133 for the tournament, escaped the afternoon wind that […]

ANDY COLQUHOUN, Edinburgh | Friday 1.30pm. THE cannon fodder will be blasted to pieces here and there and there’ll be a scrap for runners-up spots in a couple of the pools but the bottom line of this weekend’s World Cup matches is that the quarter-final line-ups will be effectively fixed. The Pool B big guns […]

JOHN MEHAFFEY, London | Friday 10.30am. INEVITABLY one giant man in black overshadows a potentially titanic opening round match between England and New Zealand at rugby union’s world headquarters on Saturday. Four tries by Jonah Lomu as New Zealand humiliated England 45-29 in the 1995 World Cup quarter-finals earned the Tongan-born winger enduring fame as […]

Cameron Duodu LETTER FROM THE NORTH Those who have been gladdened by the news that Monsanto, the giant company that is developing genetically modified foods, has dropped its “Terminator Seed” programme, may be rejoicing too soon. Terminator Seeds, as you may have read, are seeds of crops like rice, maize, wheat and cotton that have […]

Denise Rack Louw Lifestyle The Design Museum, which opened on September 23 at the Foundry in Greenpoint, Cape Town, allows aficionados of 20th- century design to view some world-class “greats” from the dazzling repertoire of the modernist movement. On show are the kind of pieces that have graced acclaimed exhibitions at the Museum of Modern […]