England have triumphed in the one-day matches, but the Tests against the Australians are a more difficult proposition – especially with the thinking cricketer Steve Waugh in their ranks CRICKET:Paul Weaver STEVE and Mark Waugh are cricket’s unidentical twins. Together with Shane Warne, they are the stars of the formidable Australian party doing battle with […]
CRICKET:Mike Selvey STABBING international cricket captains from long distance, Mike Atherton might recall, has been a peculiarly English disease. But now Australia, riddled with self-doubt after a disastrous start to their tour, including the 3-0 whitewash in the Texaco series, have been infected. Their chairman of selectors Trevor Hohns this week said that if the […]
Natasha Walter HUMAN CROQUET by Kate Atkinson (Doubleday, R79,95) KATE ATKINSON is that rare thing, a writer who starts off her writing career with absolute certainty, hearing her own music and singing her own songs. This is only her second novel, her follow-up to Behind the Scenes at the Museum, which won the Whitbread Prize […]
FRIDAY, 10.30AM SOUTH African conservation groups are offering paramilitary training across Southern Africa, and making a financial killing from it, according to a report released this week by the Network of Independent Monitors. Although the report does not detail precisely what training has been given and to whom, it names several local organisations as being […]
FRIDAY, 11.00AM PARASTATAL Development Bank of Southern Africa is on the verge of securing a R750-million credit line from the African Development Bank, Finance Minister Trevor Manuel said on Thursday. Manuel added that the Land Bank and Industrial Development Corporation are also seeking loans. Speaking at the Afrivan Development Bank annual meeting, Manuel said the […]
paramilitary training Ann Eveleth SOUTH AFRICAN conservation groups are pursuing lucrative business in paramilitary training across Southern Africa, according to a report released this week by the Network of Independent Monitors (NIM). The report names a number of organisations involved in the trade, including Wildlands Trust, an organisation headed by Inkatha Freedom Party leader Mangosuthu […]
Mail & Guardian Reporter ONE of the suspected killers of Eliakim ”Pro” Khumalo, Samson Masithulele, who escaped from police cells in Soweto earlier this week, was rearrested two days later. Lawrence Mazimba (22) and Masithulele (20) are due to stand trial in September for the murder of Khumalo. The father of Bafana Bafana star Doctor […]
FINE ART: Julia Teale ONE is immediately struck by the quiet ”presentness” of Steven Inggs’s recent works on paper. The rather worn appearance of the gallery – its large, rectangular, black-slate floor and somewhat shabby box- board walls – is suffused with a contemplative mood, not unlike what one might experience in a sunlit cemetery […]
THURSDAY, 5.00PM NORTH-WEST provincial auditor general Bryant Madliwa on Thursday released a report detailing hundreds of millions of rands in unauthorised spending, irregularities in expenses claims, missing vouchers and large-scale theft. The report on the auditor general’s investigation shows that the provincial premier’s office alone was unable to produce documentation to support R3,5-million in spending. […]
THURSDAY, 5.30PM FORMER Zimbabwe president Canaan Banana has been fired from his voluntary, part-time teaching post at the University of Zimbabwe in Harare. University authorities on Thursday confirmed that Banana, 61, a methodist priest and professor of religious studies, classics, and philosophy, was discharged and had already vacated his office in the arts faculty, where […]