I’m not Luke Watson’s biggest fan, but this week, the guy has been unjustly vilified by the “conservative” media who, I suspect, have an agenda and are using Watson as a tool to pursue their goals. I might be wrong, but until proven otherwise, I’m convicted to that view. I’m not saying Luke is a […]
Luxolo Mantambo
The award winning Luxolo “Lux” Mantambo is one of the leading sports writers in the country.
He is an avid sport fan, whose love for soccer, cricket, boxing and cricket dates back to his roots growing up in the former Transkei. He started his career with the Daily Dispatch who spotted his talent while Lux was still in College.
He has featured on various newspapers, magazines, radio and television. He is renowned for telling it as it is and admits that he is not in the business of making friends, although he realises the need to adopt a mellow attitude at times.
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Mickey Arthur, Ntini’s future and brave cricket
When Mickey Arthur took over the senior national team from Ray Jennings, he bowled the media over with brave talk. Mickey spoke about brave cricket, brave decisions and brave selection. It was evident that a new era has dawned. We all bought into his vision, for Mickey arrived at a time when SA cricket was […]
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Hansie: have we forgiven him?
Next week, we will see the premiere of the Hansie Cronje movie and already, the nation is once again divided on the late Proteas’ skipper. Before it is even screened in South Africa, the movie has been met with mixed emotions with sceptics suggesting that the movie is nothing but an attempt to recreate the […]
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Santana: the man with no answers, no plan
This week, I got a rare opportunity to ask the country’s most paid manager Joel Natalino Santana to explain his football philosophy to me and the rest of football scribes who had gathered for a post-mortem following the country’s failure to reach the Africa Cup of Nations. “Clearly”, I told Santana, “we are not getting […]
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Why Santana will fail in South Africa
As Bafana Bafana approach what might turn out to be the most defining game of the progress made (or lack thereof), more doubts have been cast about the man at the helm, Joel Natalino Santana. He will face the biggest game of his coaching career when Bafana take on the Super Eagles of Nigeria in […]
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Welcome to the Benni McCarthy circus
THE love-hate relationship between perennial country snob Benni McCarthy and Bafana Bafana continued unabated at Nasrec this week. Benni, the lad many folks would love to loathe, is back in the Bafana Bafana squad. And already the bets are going around on whether or not the ‘Prodigal One’ will check-in at the London hotel on […]
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South Africa, a sadly divided house
As I watched the Beijing Olympics, I could not help myself but envy the Chinese. One question kept coming to me: Can we, as South Africans — the sport-mad nation that we claim to be — show such a united front when the world’s media and tourists descend on our shores to capture South Africa’s […]
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Kevin Pietersen: To love or hate him?
Kevin Pietersen, the South African-born cricketer who will convince you that he is more English than South African, has ascended to the highest throne in English cricket. How ironic that this happens few weeks after I had bought a copy of his uninspiring book, Crossing the Boundary. Kevin takes the England captaincy at a time […]