Gustav Thiel : Cricket Professional sportsmen never want to retire. If they had their way, they would play into their graves. Cricketers are no exception, which is why a bunch of the world’s top players of yesteryear are now considering starting a seniors league similar to those already flourishing in golf and tennis. Talk of […]

THURSDAY, 11.00AM: The emigration tide seems to have turned, according to latest Central Statistical Service fgures. Immigration and emigration figures released on Wednesday show that less people are leaving, and more people are entering the country. The figures show a 24% decline in the number of self-declared emigrants from South Africa during July 1997 compared […]

FRIDAY, 9.10AM: FREE STATE’S Peet Kleynhans will coach the Golden Cats regional team in next year’s Super 12 rugby series. Kleynhans was appointed by the four unions which make up the Golden Cats — Gauteng, Free State, Griqualand West and Northern Free State — on Thursday. It was expected that Gauteng Lions Dawie Snyman will […]

Steve Morris : Rugby There is a distinct feeling abroad that South African rugby, while it has moved up a step on the international level, is suffering from stress fractures at home. It is amazing that the only coach the Blue Bulls could settle on was Eugene van Wyk, a man they had already rejected […]

Advertisers need to stay in touch with the trends of the young, writes Maria McCloy Friday night in Jo’burg and young black people are either at Rocky Street and Hillbrow or the flavour-of-the-moment joints in the city’s swisher northern suburbs. Kwaito, R&B and hip-hop music pumps from speakers as local artists Trompies, Arthur and Bongo […]

A free-trade deal with Europe is only a matter of months away, writes Madeleine Wackernagel Talks with the European Union (EU) over a free-trade agreement have dragged on for so long that the typical response to yet another statement from one side or the other is confusion at best, lack of interest at worst. But […]

Andrew Muchineripi : Boxing What does the future hold for newly-crowned WBU heavyweight champion Corrie Sanders? The 31-year-old Pretoria southpaw completely overshadowed American Ross Puritty in a non-contest at the Carousel last Saturday and set himself up for an encounter with a champion of another organisation, probably at the same venue next February. IBF junior […]

FRIDAY, 5.30PM: PRESIDENT Robert Mugabe met with war veterans on Friday to reveal how he plans to pay them despite a lack of ready funds. He urged the veterans to accept gratuities in the form of government bonds, rather than cash. The payout, which will recompense 40 000 liberation soldiers, is expected to amount to […]

FRIDAY, 8.50AM: The morale in the South African rugby camp is very high following the availablity of flanker Johan Erasmus for the second and final Test against France on Saturday. Erasmus, who suffered spasms on Wednesday, did not practise with the squad for the second successive day on Thursday. “He was excused from practice today, […]

A boy found in the wild 10 years ago and placed in care still behaves like a monkey, writes Wonder Hlongwa It has been a decade since a five-year-old boy suspected of living with monkeys was discovered in Sundumbili in KwaZulu-Natal. He has been in professional care ever since, but still behaves more like a […]