Weekly Mail Reporter THE police file on Mail & Guardian co-editor Anton Harber — the first such security file from the 1980s to be released — consists of three scanty A4 pages of a computer printout, filled with errors. If the file is anything to go on, the police knew almost nothing about Harber; what […]
SOUTH AFRICA’S R2-million effort to help Rwandan refugees — seven Air Force flights carrying 136 tons of food and medicine — was but a drop in the ocean. It was not even enough to sustain for a single day the 250 000 destitute Rwandans at the Tanzanian border town of Ngara, where most of the […]
My Life is unlike any of Athol Fugard’s other plays. With this workshopped production, he told Mark Gevisser, he, like this country, has started again FIVE teenage girls on stage, filled with adolescent hope and naivety, play out a parable for racial reconciliation simply by telling their stories. What on earth is Athol Fugard up […]
After being runner-up in the Open twice, Nick Price finally got his hands on the Claret Jug last weekend GOLF: Paul Martin THOUGH it’s flown trans-Atlantically with him, Nick Price still hardly ever puts his Claret Jug down. It overflowed with champagne on Sunday evening, causing a champion’s hangover, but on Monday after a three-hour […]
POLICE handling of the Pick ‘n Pay strike was true to classic South African police policy, “If in doubt, panic,” said a British academic specialist in criminal justice and member of the South African Police Services international training team. Mike Brogden also said the style of crowd dispersal used at Pick ‘n Pay stores indicated […]
The North Sea Jazz Festival is one of the biggest in Europe. Morabo Morojele was there IF your idea of the best way to enjoy a jazz festival is to decamp in a grassy spot with a good view of the stage, then the North Sea Jazz Festival might come as something of a disappointment. […]
ONE of the more remarkable sidelights of the Pick ‘n Pay dispute has been the comment by the Democratic Party’s Douglas Gibson that as a developing country, South Africa “cannot afford militant unions much longer”. The National Party has also weighed in with calls for government intervention, saying that “unambiguous choices will have to be […]
For astronomers it couldn’t get any better than this. But the people of Sutherland couldn’t have cared less about the Shoemaker-Levy 9 comet, reports Mondli waka Makhanya THE men at Sutherland’s South African Astronomical Observatory were as bubbly as nursery school kids at a birthday party as they prepared to view the first in a […]
Wisden editor Matthew Engel reports on South Africa’s return to the home of cricket LAST WEEK, when the touring South African cricketers were playing Durham on the little ground at Chester-le-Street, Wayne Larkins, a man who hits a cricket ball very hard, pulled a delivery from Allan Donald, a man who bowls a cricket ball […]
Andrew Trench and Paul Stober SOUTH AFRICAN security forces are keeping a close watch on the former homelands of Transkei and Ciskei as simmering discontent in police and military ranks threatens to jeopardise order in the regions. South African intelligence assessments of the former homelands warn of a breakdown of discipline in the ranks of […]