KENYA dominated the Lisbon Half Marathon on Sunday, notching eight of the top ten positions, including three medals, in the men’s event and snatching the women’s gold. Jophet Kosgei clocked 1:00:01 to win the men’s run, just 25 seconds ahead of Joseph Kimani who took the silver. Philip Rugut seized Kenya’s third medal in the […]
TURN-out appeared low as Togolese voters began casting their ballots on Sunday in legislative elections boycotted by the opposition to veteran President Gnassingbe Eyadema. The capital Lom, home to about one in five of the west African country’s 2,3-million eligible voters, witnessed short queues at the polling stations. Turn-out was especially low in Lom districts […]
FRENCH-based defender Pierre Issa has been recalled to the South African squad for their next African Nations Cup qualifying match against Gabon in Libreville on April 10, coach Trott Moloto said on Thursday. Bafana Bafana beat Gabon 4-1 last month .Issa, who plays for Marseille, has missed the last two qualifiers through injury. The squad […]
BAFANA Bafana goalkeeper Hans Vonk has asked that R10000 of his fee for the African Nations Cup qualifier against Gabon be donated to the SOS Children’s Village in Mamelodi. Raymond Hack, chief executive of the South African Football Association, said the gesture came during a visit by Bafana Bafana to the village, set up as […]
THE Otago Highlanders named their team on Thursday for Saturday’s Super 12 match against the Cats at Ellis Park in Johannesburg. The team comprises: Jeff Wilson, Brendan Laney, Jeremy Stanley, Pita Alatini, Romi Ropati, Tony Brown, Byron Kelleher, Isitolo Maka, Josh Kronfeld, Taine Randell (capt), John Blaikie, Brendon Timmins, Carl Hoeft, Anton Oliver, Joe McDonnell. […]
KENYAN athletics authorities named a 33-strong squad on Tuesday for the world cross country championship in Belfast after two weeks of high-altitude training. Four-time champion Paul Tergat leads the squad as he attempts to win a fifth consecutive world title and equal compatriot John Ngugi’s record. Also in the team are Richard Limo, the winner […]
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Wellington | Saturday 10.00am. DARYLL Cullinan was dismissed for the first time in the series with an average of 427 as South Africa closed the third day of the of the third Test against New Zealand on Saturday on 498 for eight. The tourists stretched their first innings lead to a daunting 276 […]
EASTERNS cricket chief executive officer Albie During has been retrenched. A statement issued on Thursday by the Port Elizabeth-based Eastern Cricket Union said the union had been restructured, based on financial constraints. “As a result, the CEO position has become redundant, and as such Mr During has been retrenched.” It said his package was still […]
TOP Bafana Bafana defender Mark Fish could face disciplinary action if he it is found he told coach Trott Moloto to “shut up” during the African Nations Cup qualifier against Gabon last month. Fish was quoted in the press telling Moloto to “shut up” when he was told to get back in position after a […]
on your Uys Some say Afrikaans is a dying language, but the Klein Karoo Festival shows that there’s still plenty of life there, writes Andrea Vinassa Afrikaans theatre is no stranger to controversy or progress, and if you imagine that the Klein Karoo Kunstefees in Oudtshoorn is some boerekonsert, you might be right and you […]
MEDICAL reports on the the three Americans awaiting trial in Zimbabwe for alleged espionage and terrorism show that they were not tortured during interrogation, state media reports. The state-controlled Herald newspaper quotes prisons medical officer Dr M Madhombiro and independent specialist surgeon AC Harid on Friday as agreeing in their reports that there was no […]
Karlin Lillington Here’s one for the “but enough about you; let’s talk about me” department. At the All About You website () you can take a personality test designed by a Berkeley PhD student and submit it for instant analysis of your key characteristics. You also get a percentile rating for where your quirks and […]
One of South Africa’s most promising middle-distance runners has made his comeback, reports Julian Drew They often say football’s a funny old game, but athletics, well, that’s such an ordered and precise sport, isn’t it? All those millimetres and hundredths of a second. There’s never any doubt about who came first and who came second. […]
Cameron Duodu : LETTER FROM THE NORTH `A great tree has been uprooted” in the Asante kingdom of Ghana! This is how the Asante – incorrectly dubbed the “Ashanti” by colonialist and neo-colonialist writers – announced the death of their king. He was Otumfuor Opoku Ware II, and he has just joined his ancestors at […]
Nicci Gerrard TONGUE FIRST: ADVENTURES IN PHYSICAL CULTURE by Emily Jenkins (Virago) I think she is sitting on the floor of her bathroom on the front cover – at least that’s what it looks like. She is wrapped in a short towel so that the tops of her legs disappear into its mysterious shadows; her […]
Loose cannon : Robert Kirby In a quick-draw response to an opinion expressed in this column some four weeks ago, Anita Kleinsmidt of the Centre for Applied Legal Studies – hereinafter referred to as “Cals” – dances intrepidly to the defence of the rights of nannies – hereinafter referred to as “childminders”. In the column […]
Andrew Worsdale picks his Oscar winners – and those the academy is likely to choose The race for the golden statuette is very interesting this year: more independently financed films than ever before and a foreign film nominated both as best picture and best foreign film – one of only three times. Roberto Benigni’s Life […]
The first newspaper in South Africa edited by a woman is a sports daily, writes David Shapshak Sports writers like statistics. Any game has some “first time since …” statistic that can be worked into a story. This week Bronwyn Wilkinson entered the record books three times. The 32-year-old became the first woman editor, and […]
AT least 40 people were killed and 70 were wounded in a battle early on Friday in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, between militiamen of warlord Musa Sudi Yalahow and gunmen loyal to Mogadishu Governor Hussein Ali Ahmed. The fighting has been between Yalahow’s Da’ud militiamen, supporting the governor — all belonging to the larger Abgal […]
THE former Rwandan army major freed by a United Nations court on charges of murdering 10 Belgian peacekeepers during Rwanda’s 1994 genocide remained in custody on Friday as Belgium and Rwanda sought his re-arrest. The UN tribunal freed Bernard Ntuyahaga on Thursday when the prosecution dropped charges against him but Belgium wants him for trial […]
Peter Dickson Thieves in Port Elizabeth’s Kwazakhele township this week stole Sophakama High School. On Tuesday its 11 classrooms were still there, but when pupils arrived on Wednesday morning, they had vanished along with the surrounding security fence. The only evidence the school had ever been there were concrete struts embedded in the foundation. “I […]
The Walkman is dead. Long live the Sony PlayStation, writes Faisal Islam Lara Croft’s newly released album on Sony Records is not available in the shops. Fans of the electronic games heroine turned virtual pop star will have to hook up their PlayStation to a Sony digital network and download directly to minidisc in seconds. […]
SWAZILAND’s King Mswati III opened the two-day Southern African Development Community defence and security committee meeting on Thursday with the recommendation that the regional trading bloc establish a peacekeeping force. Addressing delegates from 14 SADC countries in the Swazi capital, Mbabane, Mswati said an impartial peacekeeping force would be the most effective way to promote […]
David Shapshak Hydrogen, the world’s most plentiful substance, may be the energy source of future motor cars. With natural fuel resources diminishing, the need for alternative energy sources has been growing, and scientists have been looking for as efficient an option as petroleum. While part of the concern is environmental (fuel combustion engines damage the […]
FORMER land commissioner and African National Congress member Joe Seremane has been chosen by the Democratic Party to represent Mmabatho in the North West in June’s election. Seremane, a former Robben Island prisoner, joined the DP six years.
Sixty years ago this week, Walter Hammond’s Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) side in South Africa disembarked from the Durban night train at Cape Town and made haste to the waiting ship, Athlone Castle, for the voyage home. The day before, March 14, the Timeless Test, unparalleled in cricket history, had been abandoned as a draw […]
Ted Leggett The Gauteng police media liaison officers recently released a statement of support for a directive issued by National Commissioner George Fivaz earlier this year. This directive admonishes police officers to “refrain from making unauthorised and unguarded statements to the media”, and to direct press inquiries to media liaison. This kind of policy, Fivaz […]
THE DAVID GLEASON COLUMN Believe me when I tell you that, for small businesspeople, the thing that counts most is the interest rate. I wrote about this last week, but it is such an important matter it needs to be addressed again. Interest rates determine how consumers behave; they set the pattern of spending. If […]
The venue that hosted Codesa has been transformed into a gambling den. Bafana Khumalo reports The “miracle” of South Africa’s transition from apartheid to democracy was painfully hammered out at the World Trade Centre in 1993 after months of negotiation at the Congress for a Democratic South Africa (Codesa). Today, this hall of democracy has […]
Sharon Hammond The Kruger National Park’s new management plan has been approved, paving the way for four-wheel drive routes and a reintroduction of elephant culling. General manager for conservation development Dr Leo Braack says that the new plan took three years to devise and had the approval of many conservationists, including groups traditionally opposed to […]
Ann Eveleth Human rights education will receive a multilingual boost this week with the launch of the Know Your Rights comic book for schoolchildren in all 11 official languages – just in time for Human Rights Day celebrations on Monday. The Rapid Phase Group, makers of the Madame & Eve cartoon and writers of the […]
all Africans John Matshikiza : WITH THE LID OFF The taxi driver is from Yugoslavia. He rails against the politicians and religious orthodoxies that have torn his country apart, but says he is now quite happy in South Africa. He drops me at the airport and wishes me a pleasant flight. My ticket says Air […]