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/ 19 February 2000
OWN CORRESPONDENT, Bombay | Saturday 11.00pm. SOUTH Africa made a solid start to their tour of India on Saturday, reaching 293 for six against an Indian Board XI. Openers Gary Kirsten and Herschelle Gibbs were soon into their stride and scored 104 for the first wicket. Kirsten was first out when he was beaten by […]
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/ 18 February 2000
The Mail & Guardian has entered the millemium with a bang, bringing to its readers an exciting new redesign and a newspaper jam-packed with even more of Africa’s best reading matter: The design, which was done by our talented in-house team, provides the newspaper with a fresh, serious though accessible new look, starting with an […]
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/ 18 February 2000
Marianne Merten ‘Anyone who believes in his innocence has no trouble sleeping. I sleep like a baby.” That’s how outspoken senior Western Cape New National Party member and former poverty relief MEC Peter Marais reacts to his sacking. He is awaiting formal charges ahead of a disciplinary hearing, having been fired by Premier Gerald Morkel […]
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/ 18 February 2000
American literary heavyweights trashed the bestselling novels of Tom Wolfe … but now he’s fighting back with gusto Julian Borger T he literary world loves a good punch- up, and as feuds go, this is the Rumble in the Jungle and the Thrilla in Manila all rolled into one. The feud has brought together John […]
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/ 18 February 2000
A chronology of the long and fragmented history of South African football. 1892: Birth of Football in South Africa, Natal Football Association and later Football Association of South Africa (Fasa). Fasa caters for white footballers only. 1951: Coloured, Black and Indian federations unite to form South African Soccer Federation (Sasf). 1952-1964: Fasa becomes member of […]
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/ 18 February 2000
Peter Dickson The Eastern Cape provincial government has announced plans to close 700 of the province’s farm schools just days after its education MEC promised the Human Rights Commission (HRC) he would bail out the schools with a R14-million subsidy. Premier Makhenkesi Stofile told last Thursday’s opening of the provincial legislature that the farm schools, […]
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/ 18 February 2000
Shaun de Waal MOVIE OFTHEWEEK Inevitably, once Leonardo DiCaprio got involved, the making of The Beach became a major gossip-fest. Allegations flew about the film-makers’ ecological destruction of the beach where it was being filmed in Thailand; and Leo had allegedly hired an entire island nearby to house his current girlfriend. The rumours that impinge […]
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/ 18 February 2000
peace’ Stefaans Brmmer A Johannesburg-based “arms dealer” and South Africa’s top spy have locked horns in a court contest involving claims that the dealer is a threat to world peace and confirmation that South African intelligence collaborates with the United States CIA. Affidavits lodged by both sides pending a Pretoria High Court hearing reveal details […]
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/ 18 February 2000
Fiona Macleod Tigers may soon be roaming free in the foothills of the Drakensberg, like their sabre-toothed cousins did millions of years ago. Two seven-month-old pure-bred Bengal tigers are already in South Africa, waiting to become part of an ambitious scheme to breed these critically endangered cats on the African continent. Three tiger subspecies have […]