The media's role in a functioning democratic society is inseparable from the freedom enjoyed by such a society's citizens. The Fourth Estate should act as a watchdog, hold those in political office accountable and keep the public abreast of what they...
I don't know about you but SA is pretty boring without the World Cup isn't it?
Not really, but the Rainbow Nation has been experiencing the lamest of July hangovers. Doctors are calling it WCW (and it has nothing to do with wrestling) -- World Cup...
June 11 seems like an age ago doesn't it? It was only yesterday that us South Africans lost our collective shit in celebrating Siphiwe Tshabalala's goal against Mexico in the opening match of the 2010 World Cup at Soccer City Johannesburg. Since the...
South Africa is a unique place in that there is a blend of cultures and creeds here that you cannot find anywhere else in the world. Sadly for football fans, SA is now also home to the unwanted and unique record of being the only hosts to have not pr...
I thought I was getting away from politics for a while. But I now realise that the vuvuzela is to these World Cup blogs what Julius Malema is to my politics columns: a noisy, but sadly unavoidable irritant. With both Malema and the vuvuzela, their im...
I was on Long Street last night in Cape Town, and the scenes that greeted me were utterly fantastic. Germans, Australians, Greeks, Chileans, English, Americans, Uruguayans, South Africans and Frenchman were all over the show doing their best to injec...
It's no secret that South Africa is once again at a crossroads. Racial tensions between black and white South Africans have reached their highest levels since the 1993 assassination of South African Communist Party leader Chris Hani which threatened ...
International rugby is really squaring up to a North vs. South battle between the hemispheres, as to who gets to harvest the financial returns or not.
The next five years will be particularly challenging for the Sanzar countries in spite of them o...
Any lingering doubts about South Africa's ability to host the 2010 Soccer World Cup have surely been laid to rest with this week's 100-day countdown festivities.
And the most pleasing aspect of this important milestone was not the magnificent new...
By Duncan Newton Keal
At the completion of the test series between India and South Africa, a series touted as being the 'world championship' of Test cricket, I can not help wondering how good South African really is.
When the Proteas made hist...
