The rapidly changing fortunes of Bucs coach Roger de Sá are becoming the stuff of legend – but the story is still being written.
Overcoming a fired-up Esperance in front of their intimidating fans will be no easy task for Orlando Pirates.
Pressure is on Orlando Pirates and coach Roger de Sa rather than Allan Freese’s Platinum Stars in the MTN8 cup final on Saturday.
The Bucs’ form must be making coach Roger De Sa happy as they take their own revolution
to Cairo when they
take on Zamalek.
Against Burkina Faso at the FNB Stadium on Saturday, Bafana Bafana have the opportunity of realising their potential.
With the giants of African football sidelined, the Pirates coach, Roger de Sa has a chance to redeem himself.
A defeat against Ethiopia would be disappointing, but it could give Gordon Igesund the chance he needs to plan a sustainable climb to respectability.
Gordon Igesund could run courses on what it means to have a thick skin and the art of making lemonade each time life serves you lemons.
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/ 3 November 2009
When the Orlando Pirates take on local Soweto rivals Kaizer Chiefs, violent sporting tribalism is refreshingly absent.
The same logic that saw Thabo Mbeki replaced as party president should apply to those who seem to think they represent their own jackets.
Mugabe is a bad man. Make no mistake. But who is to say that FW de Klerk or PW Botha or any of their Cabinet ministers were saints?
Moya: One can break the law if that is what "simple economics" dictates is the best way to get desired outcomes.
Writing letters was the only way the imprisoned Nelson Mandela could communicate with his loved ones, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
A sign of my bigotry is my discomfort with homosexuals displaying affection in public, although I have no problem with heterosexuals doing the same.
Founder of the Joy of Jazz festival Peter Tladi tells
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya how it all began
Choosing to read all events through a political paradigm is often the curse of those of us born unfree.
<b>COUNTERPOINT:</b> While we agree with our colleague Drew Forrest that Mbeki is a man past his sell-by date, we do not agree that the paper was ahead of its time in its appraisal of Mbeki. The <i>Mail & Guardian</i> 2001 and the<i> M&G</i> 2008 are two different papers.
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya looks at the Sama for best traditional jazz album.
Remember the days when, as inaugural transport minister, Mac Maharaj insisted that he would continue to drive his beat-up old Jetta? It struck a chord, for it spoke of a government that would live comfortably yet simply. Those days died quickly as the new democrats dusted off old protocol books designed for a venal order.
Religious holidays are always happy times for criminals. Perhaps the overwhelming sense of brotherly love makes cash-flush citizens too trusting and thus easy prey. But a growing category of charlatans is emerging. Instead of pulling a weapon to make folks part with their money, they invoke the name of one deity or another.
My mistake was to express how I lost patience with Jacob Zuma’s tendency to talk about bread when he is with bakers, meat when he is with butchers and pies when he is with both. My friend — a proud, urban Zulu man — thought he had seen through me. He accused me of hating Msholozi.
"The problem with blacks," my new friend says, in condemnatory tone, to the rest of the company, "is that we are too harsh on other blacks. You would think they are the only ones who do bad things." All of us around the table are black. Some dare to suggest that there are a few things darkies need to sort out themselves before blaming the "system" for our sorry plight.
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/ 24 December 2007
It was a casual chat with a colleague ahead of the start of a long weekend. I told her I would be spending some time at a drinking hole somewhere in Soweto. She pointed out that she did not like Soweto pubs much because they seemed too "nice". She preferred those of the rural Eastern Cape, crowded little places where people sit on crates and drink from 750ml bottles.
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/ 12 November 2007
I will not hold it against you if you read this and think it is about football. But it is not. Last week the Premier Soccer League’s board of governors decided to pay some of their number a once-off R70-million gratuity, with luck ending months of speculation over payments to individuals instrumental in getting football’s sponsorship to top the R1-billion mark.
If you know of a mall in your neighbourhood, assume that Maponya, which just opened in Soweto, is more or less the same, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 11 September 2007
I wouldn’t blame anyone who accused me of sour grapes if they heard that I am happy I couldn’t go on the Axe jet, despite accepting the invitation. But, think what you will, the Axe jet’s so-called fantasy is an affront to reasonable men. In its unapologetic objectification of women’s bodies, the maker of Axe says men are so easy to please, writes Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya.
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/ 5 September 2007
For his first real taste of paid football, Gift Leremi, who was killed in a car accident on September 3, came on as a late substitute in a charity match against Kaizer Chiefs. Orlando Pirates, who had in the off-season promoted him to their first team, were trailing by a goal.
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/ 4 September 2007
The matric exam season is upon us. And once again it is the fate of black children that hangs precariously in the balance; it is they who will be hardest hit by the interruption in classes earlier this year during the public-service strike. More worrying, however, is the silence of their parents on the matters that affect their children.
Fikile-Ntsikelelo Moya meets legendary South African jazz drummer Makhaya Ntshoko and his quintet.
Ordinarily, it should be old hat that a business organisation, even if it is one of the best in its industry, is majority black-owned, as the Jupiter Drawing Room is. The agency’s press release Âwriters say it is "Africa’s largest, black-owned, independent advertising agency". What is less subjective is that last month Jupiter was voted the AdÂFocus Ad Agency of the Year.
For all the talk about a lack of skills in South Africa’s advertising industry, its man of the moment, Groovin Nchabeleng, may just have the answers. Nchabeleng, this year’s AdReview advertising person of the year, also comes in handy when another South African ill, the lack of entrepreneurship, is discussed.
<i>Mail & Guardian</i> reviewers examine meaning and myth in Mmatshilo Motsei’s The Kanga and the Kangaroo Court