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At the closing ceremony of a rugby Test played against Wales recently, Springbok captain John Smit admonished a fan in the crowd who was waving the old South African flag. The skipper correctly pointed out to this gentleman that the Bokke knew who they were playing for and made his displeasure known. Nation building at […]

Submitted by Thandanani Mhlanga OK, so there we were at Game, every race known to the southern hemisphere. A rare moment indeed — this is Nelspruit, after all, a place where the winds of change hadn’t fully reached yet at the time. But there we were, washing detergent forgotten, glued to the different screens at […]

I have never run the Comrades Marathon. This is because I studied Human Physiology and Biochemistry and I am privy to simple concepts that the rest of the population seems unaware of. For instance, how many people know that muscles are constructed from proteins and that proteins have a propensity to denature under certain stresses, […]

I’ve just spent the afternoon letting those Welshmen on Will Carling’s site have it and then some. Pieter De Villiers’ finest have just shown the Six Nations champions that there is a world of difference between being the Northern Hemisphere’s top dogs and the team who hold the title of world champions. I would, however, […]

This weekend a young man tragically died in the streets of Durban while participating in a legal street race. My heart goes out to the family, friends and fellow street racers of Gert Vorster from Johannesburg. Ironically, Gert clocked the fastest time of the race shortly before he crashed. Although this is tragic, people must […]

Not even the passage of 27 years and two World Cup victories have been enough to exorcise the horror of that moment. 16-3 down at half-time in the deciding Test of the 1981 New Zealand tour, the Boks had miraculously fought back to level the scores at 22-all, with only injury-time left. But referee Clive […]

This week’s Talkback question on the Mail & Guardian Online: Should Cosatu leave transformation in cricket to sports authorities?

Oregan Hoskins has been re-elected as the president of the South African Rugby Union, home body of the current world champions, in case you’re an All Black supporter and you weren’t sure. Two-time winners of the premier event, actually, having competed in far fewer tournaments. A good thing too, or who knows, New Zealand may […]

From the country that brought you the ANC two-faction in-fighting debacle, the war between the Scorpions and organised crime unit and the arms deal, comes a film so moving — and let’s face it, most of us will want to move overseas quickly after seeing it — that critics have deemed it an epiphany. Tweeracistsenababa […]