SOCCER: Ray Nxumalo A WHISTLEMAN who has lost the respect of players and officials is not worthy of officiating at a game whose result may endanger lives of spectators, the players themselves and further tarnish the image of a game so bedevilled by scandals. The image of soccer is soiled in the eyes of spectators; […]
MOVEABLE FEAST Marino Corazza I WAS not blessed with a sweet tooth. While others drool over birthday cakes, going gaga about upping their sugar levels, I’m thinking about moist biltong, won-ton and oysters. A fat slab of any kind of cake just leaves me cold — even more so when the munchers say: “Oooh, I […]
CINEMA: Fabius Burger Best Film at the Edinburgh Film Festival and recipient of the Critics Award at the Venice Film Festival, Leon the Pig Farmer has a lot to live up to. Luckily, it’s a funny movie. The plot’s about a mix-up: Leon Geller (Mark Frankel), a nice Jewish boy with a compulsion about honesty, […]
Johannesburg Prison inmates who have tested HIV-positive are stigmatised, abused and denied rights granted to other prisoners, they told Philippa Garson ‘IT’S like you’re a snake that someone caught,” says “Ben”, “a snake that everyone comes to look at.” He’s struggling to find the right words to describe what it feels like to be HIV-positive […]
WHEN General Roy During (59) disclosed the existence of a hit-squad within his own force, it reflected the deep chasm that had opened between himself and his colleagues during his reign as KZP commissioner. An “outsider” in the force, During was more comfortable with the policemen of the new South Africa than with those trapped […]
The president throws a thank you party for ‘struggle’ veterans and over 1 000 guests from around the world turn up, writes Sibusiso Nxumalo
There’s a global movement going on, fusing New Age themes with computer cyberpunk and techno music. Now the Zippies have a new hang-out in downtown Jo’burg. Sean Badal checked IT out THE fashion guerrillas that prowl the tattered urban landscape of downtown Johannesburg over weekends have a new hang-out. It’s called IT — and if […]
It might not be quite the mink ‘n manure set but show-jumper Enos Mafokate is teaching Soweto’s children how to ride, writes Sibusiso Nxumalo SHOW-JUMPER Enos Mafo-kate dreams of the day Soweto has its own riding centre where he and the township’s aspiring riders can practice a sport that has hitherto been the exclusive preserve […]
Stefaans Brummer ANGOLA’s rebel Unita movement has given a qualified assurance it will not execute captured South African “mercenaries” after an appeal for clemency by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki. At least two South Africans working for the Pretoria-based company Executive Outcomes — whose personnel ostensibly train soldiers of the MPLA government — fell into Unita […]
Pressure is mounting for an investigation into the kwaZulu Police as its former chief alleges the existence of hit squads, reports Farouk Chothia DIVISIONS and rivalry in the kwaZulu Police are blowing the force wide open, with outgoing commissioner General Roy During making the most serious allegations yet about ”hit squad” activity in the force. […]