Yearly Archives: 1994

MIKE PROCTER lost his job as the South African team cricket coach last weekend because he had failed to rekindle South Africa’s famed fighting spirit on the recent tour to England, according to Krish Mackerdhuj. The side ended up losing the third Test, as well as the two one-day internationals, and was humiliated by Holland […]

Jacques Magliolo COCA-COLA International will be back in South Africa before the end of this year, say the experts ahead of Coke’s planned Friday press announcement and following rumours that Coke Group president for Africa Karl Weir has been seen in South Africa. Though a press conference has been called for Friday, little information has […]

CRICKET: Jon Swift IN THE aftermath of Mike Proctor’s departure as coach of the national cricket team, there have been a number of decisive moves on one hand and some dithering on the other. The old warhorse, Clive Rice, was effectively ruled out of any possible confrontations with captain Kepler Wessels, by being named as […]

MOSS CHIKANE, national co-ordinator of the former National Co-ordinating Committee for the Return of Exiles (NCCR), comes in for severe criticism in the report on NCCR activities. A former United Democratic Front activist and Delmas treason trialist, Chikane decided unilaterally, while a NCCR regional liaison officer, to take managerial and financial decisions without any consultation, […]

Louise Flanagan GETTING Sun king Sol Kerzner to court to face bribery and corruption charges might be more difficult than hitting the jackpot in one of the Sun International (SI) casinos. The attorney general in the former Transkei homeland, Christo Nel, has determinedly chased the SI chairman for four years and he’s not ready to […]

Arts Alive visitor Salif Keita had to shrug off his noble ancestry to pursue his first love: music. He spoke to Bafana Khumalo AFTER reading reams of interviews and profiles of Salif Keita in the American press, one could be forgiven for expecting him to be a 10-foot warrior god. In most of what has […]

Wiseman Khuzwayo STOCK exchange whizzkid Greg Blank, now serving time for fraud, will be treated the same as any other prisoner, says the Department of Correctional Services. Blank began serving his eight-year sentence last Saturday after exhausting his opportunities to appeal against it. But South Africa does not have US-style special prisons for “white collar” […]

THEATRE: Guy Willoughby Put together by its six creators for a frankly polemical purpose, Manje (“Now”) protests the harsh and sordid conditions that women in South African prisons have had to endure. If that sounds a rather daunting drawcard for an outing to the Civic Theatre, rest assured that this montage of mime, song, dialogue […]

Moveable Feast Marino Corazza DURING our courting years one of the simple treats my wife and I would indulge in when we had a little spare cash was to have dinner at La Lampara in Norwood. La Lampara is a fishing boat lamp used at night to attract the fish. The eaterie had similar beckoning […]