Steve Morris Rugby We would have to take Springbok coach Nick Mallett’s word on the fact that disgraced prop Toks van der Linde intended no deliberate harm during his unsavoury tap dance on the head of French Barbarian David Dantiacq. The French centre and his Gallic counterpart, referee Joel Dume, had different perspectives on the […]

Bongani Siqoko Boxing Legendary champion Roberto Duran knows very well that if he is to get another crack at a world title, he has to win his fight on Saturday. Duran meets Englishman David Radford in a 10-round light-heavyweight non-title fight, in the Jumbo Cash & Carry “Amabutho Empi” boxing extravanganza at the Carousel on […]

Ferial Haffajee Zwelakhe Sisulu is expected to quit the SABC for one of many tempting media executive positions being dangled before him. Senior SABC insiders believe Sisulu is likely to leave in the next “three to six months”. He has not taken the option of extending his contract as chief executive – which came up […]

FRIDAY, 11.00AM: SPRINGBOK scrumhalf Joost van der Westhuizen is considering leaving the Blue Bulls after playing for them for the last seven seasons, because he feels his game is suffering. Van der Westhuizen said he is fearful of losing his Bok place ahead of the 1999 World Cup finals. “At this stage I don’t have […]

Marion Edmunds Pretoria’s controversial high-security CMax prison was kept secret from key Department of Correctional Services officials until a week before it was put into operation for fear it might provoke protests. Even correctional service’s head of prisons, chief deputy commissioner of functional services Timothy Khoza, had not heard about CMax until just before it […]

The editors of the Oxford English Dictionary gave us their own alternative key words for the past two decades: 1978 BMX, Teletext 1979 Space Invaders 1980 Reaganomics 1981 Walkman 1982 Exocet 1983 Star Wars 1984 Aids 1985 Yuppie 1986 Perestroika 1987 Freemarket, Black Monday 1988 Lager lout 1989 Poll tax 1990 Global warming 1991 Citizen’s […]

FRIDAY, 1.30PM: GOVERNMENT spending in October once again exceeded the 6,1% increase expected by finance minister Trevor Manuel for the 1997/98 year, with spending since March up 10% on last year’s figure for the same period. While the ministry had expected an 11,1% rise in revenue, the real figure for the first seven months is […]

The mining debate has raised its ugly head again, writes Nicky Barker It was described as “the conservation fight of the century”. The battle to save Lake St Lucia, a unique wetland system on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast, began in 1989. That is when Richard’s Bay Minerals applied for mining rights inside the Greater St […]

Termination of pregnancy, or abortion, is available on request from most clinics. But many of them can’t cope with the numbers. Lizeka Mda spent a day at the Soweto clinic It is not quite 8am but the clinic is buzzing. Women have been streaming in from the moment the gates opened at 7.30am. Many walk […]