Guy Willoughby ‘I saw this medieval woodcut of Adam and Eve at the tree of knowledge. Beneath the tree there’s an ape picking up an apple, a windfall, wanting to eat of the tree as well … Is this inexcusable, or ghastly and bizarre? That is the moment in which our play takes shape.” Basil […]
Angus Begg Cruising through the quiet Mpumalanga highlands town of Machadodorp, you’d be forgiven for thinking that the entire town had just attended its own funeral. Unemployed youths linger around the general dealer in trademark fashion, an attractive, period-piece church stands as a landmark in the town centre and an assortment of 4×4 vehicles pass […]
affair Andrew Muchineripi SOCCER Amid all the hype and hope of the 2006 World Cup bid, it was all too easy to forget that there is the small matter of an important qualifying match for the 2002 World Cup on Sunday. Bafana Bafana travel to Harare on Saturday for a Group E showdown with Zimbabwe […]
Can Europe see beyond its own nose? We fear not. Can Germany conceive of interests more important than its own greedy aggrandizement? It seems not. Is the rich north able to grasp the paradox that, by sharing things around a little, it may enrich not merely the rest of the world but, also, itself? Evidently […]
multiparty democracy Ebrahim Harvey left field The increasing convergence between the ruling African National Congress and the state, similar to National Party rule before, represents dangers for our infant and fragile democracy. This is so in spite of the fact that white racist rule is gone and we have had a non-racial democracy since 1994. […]
Margaret Court has no time to practise now she’s preaching Jon Henderson Margaret Court, one of the great Wimbledon campaigners, stepped back on to Centre Court last week for the first time since her playing days. Or, to be more precise, it was the Reverend Margaret Court who returned to the world’s most pampered patch […]
Philippa Garson class struggle It would appear that the battle for the soul of the country’s curriculum is far from over. When Minister of Education Kader Asmal took the decision to subject the African National Congress’s flagship education policy, Curriculum 2005, to independent scrutiny in February this year by appointing a review committee to look […]
stealing R7m Evidence wa ka Ngobeni Norman Knight, one of the doyens of South Africa’s pharmaceutical industry, has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing more than R7-million while working for his former employer, the Premier Group. Knight, who has instructed his Mpumalanga legal firm to appeal against the judgement, has been convicted […]
Kathryn Smith Consumers entering or exiting various shopping meccas in Johannesburg and its immediate peripheries last Saturday morning were likely to be accosted by a different sort of panhandler. The sort that gives you something. Pupils from Alexandra, Soweto and Hillbrow formed colourful chorus lines (in costumes designed by Preston van Wyk from World’s End […]
David Beresford Another Country Some years ago, trying to get an interview with the Rain Queen, I was persuaded to have a lesser sangoma (male) throw the bones for me in a hill-side kraal near Duiwels Kloof, in the northern Transvaal. I was seated in a position from which I could look out the door […]