Yearly Archives: 1999

tournament Julian Drew Judo With 28 countries entered in the tournament, judo was one of the better represented sports on the All Africa Games programme, but, as with most of the 20 sports codes at the games, there were few people to witness the trials and tribulations of participants. The odd sprinkling of local judokas […]

David le Page WHAT’S NEW Those who are missing Madiba can order Nelson Mandela: The Symbol of a Nation. Compiled with the assistance of Ahmed Kathrada, the Mayibuye Centre and other authoritative sources, it is reasonably priced at R120 and available from the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund at www.mandela-children.org. The multimedia content is impressive – […]

Barry Streek The Film and Publication Board took some “very, very difficult” decisions last year as it cleared a backlog of some 6 000 videos, many of them porn movies, to decide whether adults should be allowed to buy them, says its CEO Dr Nana Makaula. It had to decide, for instance, whether adult choice […]

CD of the week Prior to making Civilised? (Gallo), Squeal had completely ceased to exist as a band – an inevitable conclusion to a year of personnel changes, falling gig attendance and personal turmoil. All that remains of the original Long Pigs is the song-writing core of David Birch (guitar, vocals) and Brett Barnes (bass, […]

Mungo Soggot The Department of Public Enterprises is going to extreme lengths to shore up a crumbling deal with a private company to run the ailing state diamond company, Alexkor. The Minister of Public Enterprises is Jeff Radebe, and his wife, Bridget, chairs the private company involved, Nabera. For several months, Nabera has been in […]

A Centre for Development and Enterprise report proposes a major reconfiguration of our political landscape, argues Jeremy Cronin ‘Caesar, Napoleon I, Napoleon III, Cromwell … compile a catalogue of the historical events which have culminated in a great ‘heroic personality’,” Antonio Gramsci noted to himself, as he languished in an Italian fascist prison. “Caesarism,” he […]

Andy Capostagno Springbok preparations It is sad to think that the Currie Cup final has become irrelevant. Once the showpiece of the season and, at least during the isolation years, the pinnacle of many players’ careers, it now just marks the time between the end of the South African season and the beginning of a […]

Christopher Lynas tells of his passionate love affair with an operating system called SuSE One of the reasons some of us use computers is that they are supposed to save us time. Reality can often be different: we end up spending immeasurable amounts of time crashing and rebooting, for no obvious reason. Some of these […]