FRIDAY, 1.30PM: AMAZULU Football club skipper Francis Shonai has been given a free transfer by the club after it battled to sell him for a year. Santos FC’s newly appointed CEO Afzal Khan said at his introduction by Santos chairman Goolam Allie in Rondebosch on Thursday that he wants the club to start winning trophies […]
WITH Springbok pivot Henry Honiball back in harness Andre Joubert returns to fullback in a powerful Natal Sharks line-up to tackle Free State Cheetahs at King’s Park on Friday. Although Joubert played a major role at flyhalf in the Sharks 27-16 victory over the Blue Bulls at Loftus Versfeld last time out, Honiball’s return has […]
MONDAY, 12.30PM: THE South African side on a short tour of Ireland mauled the Irish bowling in their first limited-overs match at Downpatrick on Friday, scoring 333/9 for in their allotted 50 overs. The Irish sent the South Africans in to bat, and struck quickly, removing the South African top three for 29 runs in […]
FRIDAY, 4.00PM: RECENTLY liquidated Afrikaans talk radio Punt Geselsradio has been reduced at a 40% staff complement after resignations or retrenchments following its liquidation. The radio was provisionally liquidated earlier in the week at the request of its major shareholder Boland Financial Services after discovering the radio station has debts of over R26-million. Staff spokeswoman […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM: PORTNET, the ports and harbours subsidiary of transport parastatal Transnet, announced on Thursday that it is planning to invest R7-billion over the next five years on constructing, maintaining and upgrading its harbours nationwide. Transnet’s executive director in charge of Portnet, Rob Childs, said R1,5-billion will be invested this financial year, with the balance […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Lusaka | Saturday 5.30pm. A ROW over who leads a key rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on Saturday delayed the start of the ratification in Kinshasa of a ceasefire deal to end the war in the former Zaire. The signing ceremony had been due to open at 10:00 am […]
SPRINGBOK South African flanker Corne Krige may be out for the remainder of 1999 after suffering a knee injury early in the first half of Saturday’s test defeat by the All Blacks in Dunedin. The Springboks were beaten 28-0. Krige, 24, had to come off after just 10 minutes. Team officials said it looked as […]
SOUTH African Greg Emslie defeated Californian Tim Curran in the opening heat of the day at the G-SHOCK ASP Billabong MSF World Championship tour surfing event. Emslie ranked 33rd outsmarted Japan Pro winner Curran ranked eight, using a combination of superior wave choice and radical manoeuvres to gain victory. Emslie will now face Australian Brendan […]
FRIDAY, 1.30PM: THE Blue Bulls Under-19 Craven Week side showed again that they are peerless in this year’s competition, soundly trouncing the much-vaunted Northern Free State side by 44-0. SA Schools flyhalf Tiaan Snyman was excellent, contributing 19 points with the boot. The Bulls scored five tries. South-Western Districts beat Mpumalanga 13-5. The half time […]
KAIZER Chiefs coach Paul Dolezar’s future with the organisation looks uncertain after team director Kaizer Motaung met with top coaches from Germany and Belgium last week. Motaung is expected to make a decision about who will coach the Premier Soccer League’s darling club after consultations this week. Speculation that Chief’s loss to Eseprance of Tunisia […]
SCHUTTE BEKKER may be able to play first-class rugby after his mild heart attack seven weeks ago. Bekker has begun walking on the treadmill, and must still be cautious while building up his strength. He hopes to be back for the Blue Bulls by the end of the season. Bekker has a single Springbok cap […]
THE battle between Wales and Australia over Jason Jones-Hughes has been won by the Wallabies. Wales named Jones-Hughes for their World Cup squad, and Australia protested, saying it owned the young player. The Australian Rugby Union (ARU) protested to the International Rugby Board (IRB) saying Jones-Hughes played for the Australian Barbarians, formerly Australia A, against […]
Riaan Wolmarans Let’s face it. Raves are getting a bit boring. You have your big venue, your carefully label-dressed crowd of several thousand, the laser lights, VIP ticket holders glaring snootily from some balcony … it could be a description of any of the big dance events of the past few months. Now don’t get […]
Kasia Boddy THE ANGLE OF INCIDENCE by Alex Benzie (Viking) Alex Benzie’s novel begins with a Freudian primal scene. Five-year-old Cameron stumbles upon his parents in the act of generation. Rather than sending her son away, his mother, Catherine, insists that he watch. She wants him to understand that it is not an act of […]
Housing for the All Africa Games is being built within sight of the Alexandra offices where refugees from factional battles sheltered in 1992 … and still live, writes Thokozani Mtshali A young woman died of pneumonia in Alexandra this week. She had lived in the former muncipal offices, into which about 300 people have been […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Blantyre | Friday 3.30pm. TRADERS in Malawi, worried at a wave of armed robberies and killings, have given the government of President Bakili Muluzi a month to improve security, failing which they will shut up shop. The ultimatum was issued on Thursday at a meeting between predominantly Asian traders and senior police officers. […]
Shaun de Waal Pop movie of the week Stephen Somers’s film, The Mummy, updates the 1932 original via Indiana Jones, making of it an adventure romp rather than a mere horror flick, though the monster still takes centre stage in this hugely enjoyable creature feature. He is not the somewhat sad figure provided by Boris […]
Yemi Toure Just when you thought it was safe to go into the jungles of Hollywood, along come the folks at Disney, swinging from the rafters with their film Tarzan. Disney’s official website describes how the studio came up with the image, the “look,” of the 1999 Tarzan. The studio wanted the character to be […]
Net users used to say that “information wants to be free”, but the new trend is for websites that will pay you to read them. Frequent surfers can collect cash in the form of “ipoints” or beenz the way frequent flyers collect air miles, as website owners sign up for rewards schemes that encourage customers […]
Anthony Egan ROGUES, REBELS AND RUNAWAYS: 18TH-CENTURY CAPE CHARACTERS by Nigel Penn (David Philip) When asked how their latest work is doing, academics sometimes joke ironically about selling the film rights. In Nigel Penn’s case, a discerning film producer really could turn these true stories of violence, sex, race and class into costume epics of […]
David Gough Ten years after the outbreak of civil war in Somalia, there is growing optimism in the capital, Mogadishu, that Islamic groups, in partnership with the business community, are on the verge of restoring a semblance of order to the city. In the past month Islamic militias operating under the auspices of self-appointed Islamic […]
The Springboks have never won at the House of Pain in Dunedin, but the return of Os du Randt to the scrum might just be the boost the team needs. Andy Capostagno reports Three weeks ago South Africa had never scored 100 points in a single Test match. Two weeks ago Wales had never beaten […]
University of the North vice-chancellor Njabulo Ndebele says he is proud of Edupark and its achievements.
The location of De Beers’s South African diamonds is now a major stumbling block in talks between the state and the giant to resolve the deadlock over gem exports. Mungo Soggot reports The battle between De Beers and the government has intensified amid accusations by state diamond officials that De Beers has backed out of […]
A few weeks ago I attended a workshop by the law commission on its draft Administrative Justice Bill. The combination of the Open Democracy Act and this Bill will be crucial legislative instruments in ensuring open, honest democracy. In the words of the Mpumalanga political lexicon, these laws will make it hard for government to […]
Andrew Muchineripi Soccer No Premier Soccer League coach is under more pressure to deliver or die than Victor Bondarenko, the former Soviet Union international who occupies the extremely hot seat at Orlando Pirates. Buccaneers boss Irvin Khoza, who kept Bonders in suspense for several weeks before giving him the green light to continue, expects at […]
Cameron Duodu Letter From The North The late Joshua Nkomo is the sort of personality to which the world is exposed only once in a thousand years. A familiar figure in Accra in the early Sixties, when President Kwame Nkrumah was helping Africans everywhere to organise resistance against white rule, Nkomo could easily have passed […]
Matthew Krouse The latest incentive to bring culture to the inner city on a grand scale will probably be greeted with scepticism from suburban quarters. It’s winter again, and inner city culture suffers historically in the cold. Working against the weather, and metropolitan apathy, the French Institute kicks off its bold plan to stage a […]
Ben Laurance and Ed Vulliamy In many ways it was a very 1990s crime. The suspected perpetrator was a loner who dressed in baggy jeans and T-shirts. He worked from home and rarely went out. The technologies of cable and satellite allowed him to surround himself with more than 100 TV sets and computer screens […]
In the mystically charged Grahamstown, more drama is taking place in the streets than on the stages and in the theatres, writes John Matshikiza `I wish people would stop talking about white and black,” National Arts Festival director Lynette Marais is quoted as saying in last week’s Sunday Times, “and just talk about a South […]
South African theatre appears to be in the doldrums of self- indulgence, even though play makers are finding plenty to say, writes Matthew Krouse The National Arts Festival has been a glorious gathering of gurus – all strutting about like peacocks. It’s their moment, a time to get what they deserve. A time for nonchalant […]
Newtown Some big projects, with big names, are being aired in yet another attempt to resuscitate the Newtown Cultural Precinct in Johannesburg, which first saw the light of day nearly a decade ago, writes Ricky Burnett Sometime in the early years of this decade Christopher Till, then director of culture for Johannesburg, described a future […]