Yearly Archives: 2001

Independent have dumped up to 7 000 copies a day , a union claims Paul Kirk Independent Newspapers’ Durban operation has been accused of fraudulently inflating circulation figures by as many as 7 000 copies in a single day. The damning claim has been made by the largest trade union operating in the group’s Durban […]

Headmaster Hilton College Dear Mr Nicholson, I heard the other day that less privileged pupils are planning to storm the country’s private schools … Right now, I need to know if you have been overthrown by the proletariat. My boy, Clive, is looking for a new school and Hilton College would be out of the […]

obituary: kim mcdonald South Africa’s queen of the roads Elana Meyer is among those mourning the loss of one of track and field’s most influential figures. Agent-turned-International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) presidential adviser Kim McDonald (45) died two weeks ago while on holiday in Australia. McDonald, a dour Yorkshireman, started off his athletics career […]

FIGHTING Deon Potgieter Fight fans who were fortunate enough to witness the classic confrontation between Phillip Ndou and Cassius Baloyi at Carnival City earlier this month may have thought they were watching Xtreme fighting. While those two warriors gave their all in combat, they were however limited by the Marquis of Queensbury’s rules and regulations. […]

analysis Mike Muller and Junior Potloane Last week’s Mail & Guardian article about the privatisation of Nelspruit’s water (“Water privatisation test case ‘a total debacle’”) appeared while we were travelling the back roads of Bushbuckridge or Botlhabela municipality as the neighbouring municipality is now known visiting water schemes. We did not go to Nelspruit because, […]

The new chairperson of the South African Human Rights Commission (HRC), Shirley Mabusela, kept her head down on the government’s HIV/Aids stance this week and stood by the HRC’s decision to stay out of next week’s court challenge to official policy on anti-retroviral drugs, writes Bongani Majola. This is likely to disappoint Aids activists, who […]

Chiefs take on Cosmos in the Coke Cup final this weekend Ntuthuko Maphumulo With R1-million the difference between winning and losing the Coca-Cola Cup final, coming second will never be the same again. The winners get R2-million while the runners-up pocket a still-hefty R1-million. Jomo Cosmos and Chiefs will be meeting in their third cup […]

Decades after writing her now-legendary work Fatima Dike is still asking: “Why were my ancestors so stupid?” Guy Willoughby ‘Our grasp of the past is so unbalanced: black experience has been separated for so long from white that we don’t understand why we each do the things that we do. I wrote Kreli in 1976 […]

Richard Evans in Sydney The threat of anti-climax hung over Lleyton Hewitt’s head all last weekend. After the euphoria of becoming the youngest world number one when he beat Patrick Rafter on Friday night, the 20-year-old South Australian was heading for two more matches fraught with danger. Mentally elated but struggling physically, it would have […]

I was not surprised when I was watching e-tv and I heard a quote from President Thabo Mbeki saying those who are sceptical or don’t believe the arms deal investigation results are those who believe that blacks are corrupt. I want to say unequivocally that I fiercely oppose what Mbeki has said. Fortunately, I happen […]