The Vodacom Challenge is well underway with the pre-season visitors on our shores - the English Premier club Tottenham Hotspurs.
They have not been so hot here in SA though. I naturally expect to hear that this is their pre-season tour but when yo...
With the Cricket World Cup upon us, for those who don't really understand one of the most archaic sports going around, here is what you need to know about the teams competing (the ones who can win the tournament at least ... apologies to the associat...
2010 will in South Africa be known as the year of Ayoba! (The marketing person who latched on to that one should either be stoned or applauded.) The Soccer World Cup came to the shores of the Republic, and for once, the country didn't descend into it...
It is a familiar scene at any Test match in South Africa: The teams have run onto the pitch and are lined up for the national anthems. The visiting team gets proceedings under way with their anthem, once concluded they receive a polite smattering of ...
By Sphiwe Hlongane
Vincente del Bosque's men stayed true to themselves and the beautiful game, I still don't know why Germany decided to employ defensive tactics in that game instead of playing the free flowing attacking game that they have been d...
I am not sure which was more scary. The hairy, heavy Vry Staater in a boep-clinging Bafana shirt or the big black dude beneath a Bloem Celtic cap I encountered in the gents at half time on Tuesday. As I manoeuvred between them to attend to pressing m...
After all Sepp Blatter's blather about an 'African World Cup', the sad irony is that we are on the verge of the unthinkable: that none of the six African teams will make it through to the second round. All six pack, but no cigar -- is one way of putt...
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...
There is not much point in having a World Cup blog on such a respectable website if you are not going to take the opportunity to masquerade as an expert football analyst. By profession I am a lawyer, by instinct a sports commentator. And having atten...
There are some moments in life where you have to put aside well-honed cynicism and a diligently instilled sense of perspective. So it was for me on Friday. My usual column on politics -- Contretemps -- was on page 32 of the Mail & Guardian and it...
