World mourns as people’s Pope is laid to rest

VATICAN CITY – The poor and powerful joined in a final farewell to Pope John Paul II yesterday at a momentous Vatican funeral watched by hundreds of millions of people across the world....

SA teams need wins after box office flop

Special Correspondent

JOHANNESBURG – The South African teams in the Super 12 will try this weekend to make a new beginning in the competition as all four of them come back from their two-week break looking to redeem themselves after a miserable start....

Club hits the bull’s eye for trigger happy

Historical gun enthusiasts are recreating a long-gone era in the shadow of Lady’s Slipper – and making history come alive, writes Brett Adkins. Mike Holmes took the pictures.

FOR the little boy lurking in every man who ever dreamed of being a pirate, Davey Crockett or even an Eastern Cape frontiersman, you just got lucky....

John Paul II a true saint among men

AND so the suffering Pope, the Pope who inspired millions in the Roman Catholic Church and in other faiths too, has been laid to rest with honour, loving tributes and thanksgiving in the presence of hundreds of world leaders of every religion and race, and pilgrims from all corners of the Earth. Many will remember the drama of his election, one which broke a long succession of Italian popes and brought to the Vatican a man who had experienced the suffering of his own people in war at the hands of the nazis and subsequently under the iron yoke of communism....

Barriers still exist but Karoo festival gave hope

By Gary van Dyk

ANOTHER Little Karoo National Arts Festival has come and gone and the tents have come down in Oudtshoorn until next year – but once again there are questions about its standing as an arts festival, a language festival, or just a saamtrek for the volk....