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 […]

Neil Manthorp Cricket Hansie Cronje bared his teeth like few captains know how after the first Test against the West Indies last season. Lest people forget, and they do, the Wanderers Test was closely fought. South Africa claimed a first-innings lead of just seven runs and were guided to a rousing four-wicket victory by Jacques […]

Riaan Wolmarans Just about every Gauteng venue with a bar and more than two chairs seems to be planning something big, usually with DJs and the inevitable fireworks. The biggest outdoor bash will definitely be the African Renaissance Millennium Party at the Union Buildings. Performances by top artists Ringo Madlingozi, Dorothy Masuku and Mahube, Boom […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

THE new Royal Bafokeng stadium near Rustenburg, one of the proposed venues for South Africa’s hosting of the World Cup finals, is expected to play host to the Rothmans Cup final. Mamelodi Sundowns, who were narrowly beaten on a penalty shootout in the last two finals, face Free State Stars. Stars beat Manning Rangers 1-0 […]

ZIMBABWE were beaten 1-0 by Zambia in their Cosafa Cup under-20 match at Vosloorus Stadium in Johannesburg on Monday. The Zambians scored through Gift Kambamba in the 77th minute when he struck home off a corner taken by Njofwa Chaswe.