Yearly Archives: 1999

Cameron Duodu Letter from the North As could be expected, the claim by the African World Reparations and Repatriation Truth Commission for $777-trillion in respect of the enslavement and colonisation of Africa has produced quite a few titters. One Nigerian wrote on the Internet: “Is this some kinda joke?” And a Ghanaian wrote: “I am […]

The season is only six games old, but already the managers are experiencing the extreme ups and downs of life in the English Premiership, writes Gavin Evans Back-to-back victories over two of the Premiership’s big five, and in both cases the scoreline was unflattering to Grard Houllier’s Liverpool lads, suggest title contention potential. Not winning […]

CD of the week David Bennun What, you might reasonably be entitled to ask, has the mad little bugger done this time? If the idea of the new Tricky album, Juxtapose (Island), doesn’t fill you with the same eager anticipation that it once might have, you’re not alone. Even those of us who consider him […]

Andy Capostagno Rugby To say it has been a strange Currie Cup this year would be like saying Daffy Duck is mildly obtuse. Put yourself in the position of coach of one of the major provinces. You don’t know from week to week which of your best players will be available due to the vagaries […]

Ever since Bonfire of the Vanities we have been waiting for the next Great American Novel. Has Kurt Andersen written it? Michael Ellison meets the author One of the persistent quibbles about Kurt Andersen’s first novel – the book du jour of Manhattan and an essential modern primer on money, the media and technology – […]

renaissance’ Wole Soyinka Just as in Kosovo, or Rwanda, Algeria, or indeed Angola, there are horrors in today’s arenas of conflict that defy the accommodativeness of the Muse, traditional or contemporary. Sierra Leone has into turned the land of terminal censorship, abrupt and unregulated, where the voices of memory are brutally censored, mindlessly, terminally, not […]

COMRADES cheat Sergio Motsoeneng’s appeal against his three-year ban has been postponed to Friday. The hearing was rescheduled by Gauteng North Athletics to enable its president, Stick Stiglingh, to preside. A ban of ten years was also imposed on Motsoeneng and his brother Sefako by the Comrades Marathon Association after they ran this year’s race […]

WORK on Mpumalanga’s new R536-million legislature complex in Nelspruit was still at a standstill on Wednesday, the third day of a strike by more than 300 labourers. They downed tools after accusing building company Stocks & Stocks of under-paying sub-contractors on the site, were then unable to pay the work force. Stocks & Stocks would […]

PRESIDENT Thabo Mbeki will meet his Zimbabwean counterpart Robert Mugabe in Pretoria on Thursday, after which he will fly to the Mozambican capital Maputo to meet President Joachim Chissano. The talks with Mugabe will be a follow-up to a meeting in July at the World Economic Forum between Trade and Industry Minister Alec Erwin and […]

TELFORD VICE, Cape Town | Tuesday 3.30pm. CRICKET’S scales of racial justice tipped further toward equilibrium on Tuesday when Vincent Barnes was named coach of the senior Western Province team from next season. Barnes will become the first black coach of a senior provincial side in South Africa in the post-unity era, having served as […]