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The Setsoto Service Delivery Forum (SSDF) has set its sights on getting rid of the ANC. (Oupa Nkosi/M&G)

Andries Tatane’s spirit will drive fight against ANC in Ficksburg

The nascent Setsoto Service Delivery Forum is confident it can remove the ‘failing ANC’ in the chronically mismanaged Free State municipality

Hansie Cronje during cross-examination at the King commission of inquiry into allegations of cricket match-fixing. (AFP)

Illegal betting syndicates target MSL cricket

Cricket, wittingly or unwittingly, is host to an alternate society of parasitic fixers, gangsters and business people who trade in extortion

National director of public prosecutions Shamila Batohi. (Oupa Nkosi)

Cheated, we turn to a superhero

South Africa has descended into a hell and we are pinning our hopes on Shamila Batohi to rescue us

Tracy Morrison fooled the mink-and-manure set with her phoney American accent and claims of links to Hollywood, but her alleged scams wounded many people

Caught at last, a brazen Jo’burg con artist must face the music

For years it seemed to all those people caught in Tracy Morrison’s intricate webs of deceit that she would never be called to account

It’s hard for Paddy Harper not to believe in conspiracies — Hansie Cronjé

Picturing my kingdom as an island

Isolation from the rest of the world can be exasperating, but it’s what Zexiteers crave

Match-fixing case against Hansie Cronje suspended

Although a New Delhi court has permitted a match-fixing case against Hansie Cronje and others, proceedings were suspended due to his death.

Hansie Cronje died in vain

We’re told the media must speak for the voiceless but when we do, we’re told to show them the error of their ways, writes Chris Roper.

Cricketer claims he lied to King commission

One of the cricketers who testified against Hansie Cronje says he lied to the King commission of inquiry into the match-fixing saga.

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Hansie Cronje: The shame-faced hero

Ten years after his death in a mysterious plane crash, South Africa’s former cricket captain Hansie Cronje remains an enigmatic figure in the sport.

Rebuilding South African cricket

CSA’s Khan: board has time to learn Companies’ Act

Cricket SA’s (CSA) acting president, AK Khan, says the federation’s board has not left it too late to familiarise itself with the Companies’ Act.

Hansie Cronje match-fixing scandal to be reopened

Indian police will reopen the match-fixing scandal case involving the late South African cricket captain Hansie Cronje.

Butt to appeal match-fixing sentence

Will jail terms for match-fixing deter cheats?

The jail terms dished out to three cricket players convicted of match-fixing could deter others, and might bring back the sport’s credibility.

SA cricket’s welcome return to the back pages

A chance to forget about boardroom shenanigans as South Africa take on Australia.

Hairy encounters of the sexual kind, on video

Lev David on alleged rugby sex tape: There have been a great many adulterers through history who had other things to recommend them.

Smith looks beyond Cronje record

Victory against England on Monday gave Graeme Smith his 28th victory in 59 Tests as SA captain, surpassing Hansie Cronje’s mark of 27 wins.

Hero and villain emerge from SA

A bittersweet legacy from the brutalities of the apartheid years lingers in South African sport. Only whites represented the republic until 1970.

Hansie: The story never dies

Just when you thought it was safe to go back on to the field, yet more light is shed on Hansie Cronje and the extraordinary abuse of power that was his ultimate undoing.

ICC quizzes Akhtar over match-fixing claims

An International Cricket Council (ICC) investigator has questioned banned fast bowler Shoaib Akhtar over his claims that he was offered money to throw matches, Pakistani sources…

Sector-sharing power? No — April Fool’s Day!

You can fool some of the people some of the time, but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time. Bleary-eyed readers of the <i>Mail & Guardian Online</i> on Tuesday April…

Even in death, Hansie won’t crack hall of fame

Disgraced former cricket captain Hansie Cronje would never be inducted into South Africa’s sporting hall of fame, according to rugby legend Naas Botha. Botha said that Cronje…