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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 […]

I had to laugh when I spoke to Jake who was in Bloemfontein to attend Os du Randt’s benefit dinner. They had just returned from Scotland where our legends played theirs. He was a man in pain. Read about it here: jakewhiterugby.blogspot.com/2008/09/on-playing-fields-of-scotland.html

FIFA is fond of reminding the world that it has more member states than the United Nations and that it wields far greater influence. So when its bosses drop in for a visit, everyone takes notice. And so it was this week when the governing body’s President Sepp Blatter, Secretary General Jerome Valcke and other […]

A wiki is a cute concept still hunting for proper application. Sure, it has a rocking video, poster child and its fun to say “wiki” three times in rapid succession, but is it really satisfying any organisational (business or informal) need? Collaboration We all like to collaborate. We even prefer saying that we want to […]

With the sun finally out, we should all be seeking the great outdoors. But if the local and foreign soccer leagues keep producing the first-class buffet of this last weekend, then it may prove too much to relinquish the TV remote. From lunchtime on Saturday, I sat transfixed as the Kop rejoiced in receiving unexpectedly […]

Take a sample group of 10 Springbok players, playing in the 2008 Super 14; just because they are household names because of their visibility and profile in the media, you think you have a handle on this game of rugby and know what is going on. Then try to focus on these famous 10 and […]

Submitted by Rachel Adams To be excluded from the opportunities that one’s society has to offer is possibly one of the most disenfranchising experiences that one can endure. But to be promised opportunity and then never see that promise come to fruition must ultimately arouse a restlessness and hopelessness that is no doubt destructive for […]

Following from the previous post in this series The entire English department at the Shanghai University of Engineering and Science knew of Nelson Mandela. Should I say “of course” they knew of him? No. People tend to see their country as the centre of everything and can be appalled, perhaps, to realise that in far-flung […]

Butch James sounds alarm over endless grind. Big bang theory? Every rugby player knows all about it, particularly the fly-half taking on the world single-handedly. One minute Butch James is steering South Africa to Test victories, the next he is back sloshing through the West Country ooze with Bath. In theory James is the future: […]

The Cheetahs are fresh out of wings (and ideas it seems), just last week we dispensed of the milk dispensers formerly known as Die Bulle with a brilliant Union interpretation of “Dutch Total Football”, the Lions are battling to keep their players from the twin lures of the euro/pound and the easy-come gains of the […]

A computer game entitled Muslim Massacre is the latest in a long line of ‘how low can you go” nominees to be found on the internet and, in fairness to the moron who designed this, it would take something sensational to beat it. The aim of the “game” is to be parachuted into the Middle […]

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 […]