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...
Ke nako! It is time!
That's right soccer fans, 2010 has arrived and the country is being revved up for the biggest month long party we have seen since the 2003 cricket and 1995 rugby World Cups. Much has been made of SA's ability (with many of tho...
2009 will be remembered as the year that South Africa staked its claim to hosting a successful 2010 World Cup.
Certainly, the past 12 months have marked an extraordinary turnaround in the preparations for this mega sporting event. Just a year ago...
When de-colonisation was sweeping across Africa, the leaders that took charge of the newly created democracies on this continent were often given the title of "Big Men". It describes those individuals who were directly responsible for their countries...
Why the fecking hell are Saru continuing to allow themselves to be bullied by Aus in the Sanzar alliance? It makes absolutely no sense at all from any angle.
New Zealand has 145 472 players registered with its 26 (mainly marginal) unions.
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It may be somewhat surprising when you think about how, in over 13 decades of cricket's well-documented existence, we only have one known way to judge cricketers -- batting and bowling averages. The void that this leaves is quite huge.
Measuring c...
So with the Super 14 pretty much done and nearly dusted, South African attention now turns to the -- impending/looming/choose own hyperbolic adjective here -- incoming tour by the British and Irish Lions. Now as is the nature of such, every man, dog ...
Former Dutch Sport Minister Erica Terpstra is rarely short of words, but when she led a delegation representing 37 Dutch companies on a 2010 World Cup Trade Mission to South Africa late last year, she was left speechless by Durban’s Moses Mabhida s...
WHAT a time it is to be a South African sports fan and even more so to be a follower of Graeme Smith and his burgeoning troop of talented cricketers who can now lay claim to being the finest Test outfit in world cricket. That they are not nearly the ...
