AT least 11 people died and more than 60 others were injured when a bus carrying a school party plunged into a river in eastern Kenya early on Friday, state-owned KBC radio reported. The radio said the bus, nicknamed Sunbird, was transporting a school party of 88 pupils and teachers to the Kenyan capital to […]
GIANT winger Jonah Lomu, the star of the last World Cup, scored two tries as New Zealand recovered from a poor start to swamp rank outsiders Tonga 45-9 in the Group B in Bristol on Saturday. In the first full international between the two countries, Lomu stood out from a mediocre All Blacks performance as […]
SOME 300000 people face severe food shortages in Somalia’s southern Bay, Bakol and Gedo regions, prompting aid agencies to appeal Friday for urgent preventive measures to address a worsening crisis. About 73000 people are acutely vulnerable, said a statement by the multi-agency Somali Aid Co-ordination Body (SACB), citing an inter-agency assessment which found that a […]
SPRINGBOK flyhalf Henry Honiball has been forced to withdraw from his side’s Pool A World Cup Rugby Union opener against Scotland on Sunday due to injury. Honiball strained a hamstring muscle in training on Thursday and failed a fitness test on Saturday morning. His place has been taken by Jannie de Beer with Breyton Paulse […]
ANDY COLQUHOUN, Troon | Friday 9.00am. SPRINGBOK reserve flyhalf Jannie de Beer hops to meet Sale Sharks officials next week to thrash out his release from the English Premiership club. De Beer wants to accept a contract with the Blue Bulls which will allow him to retain his Springbok place by playing Super 12 rugby […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Riyadh | Friday 6.00am. RECALLED goalkeeper Andre Arendse made a series of superb saves as South Africa forced a 0-0 draw with Saudi Arabia in Riyadh on Thursday to win the Afro-Asian Nations Cup. Bafana Bafana (The Boys) successfully defended a 1-0 first-leg lead in the biennial play-off between the African and Asian […]
Mercedes Sayagues BODY LANGUAGE It is so much fun dating in this postmodern, post-feminist, post-Aids world. Go for a stroll in the heterosexual jungle, and you can put your thumb on the zeitgeist, on the changing roles of men and women. After a long, too long, monogamous relationship ended, I took a year-long break from […]
‘renaissance’ Ebrahim Harvey The African National Congress-led government has to take a clear, strong and bold stand in support of the anti- debt Jubilee 2000 campaign. Much is at stake in the campaign for this country, the African continent and other poor countries. Onerous debt servicing lies at the heart of the intractable socio-economic problems […]
Subcontracting in the gold-mining industry is eroding working conditions and miners’ safety, writes Barry Streek A new study has found that South African gold mines are increasingly relying on subcontracted labour, estimated to make up more than 10%of the labour force, which has rolled back union power and worker rights. Very little is known about […]
Andrew McUtchen Music Two years ago, the Mail & Guardian reported on the disturbing prevalence of violence at kwaito gigs, from performers as much as the audience. Last week, at the One City, Many Condoms Aids awareness concert at Cape Town’s Langa stadium, a threat to personal liberty of an entirely different kind awaited this […]