Yearly Archives: 2001

Victory in Malawi on Sunday would ease South Africa’s passage to next year’s World Cup in Japan and Korea Andrew Muchineripi Rugby legend Naas Botha never hesitated to point out that the Currie Cup was not won in May, so perhaps the third round is a mite premature to pass World Cup judgement on Bafana […]

Peter Robinson cricket With the best will in the world, this has not been a particularly outstanding week for the administration of South African cricket. Only by the grace of God did the Standard Bank Cup semifinals manage to resolve themselves in time for Wednesday’s final and while Ray Jennings eventually backed down ahead of […]

This is an open letter to Dr Ben Ngubane, Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology, by Mike van Graan, carried on the artslink website Dear Minister Ben Ngubane, It must be quite difficult being the minister responsible for arts and culture right now. The Playhouse, which you’ve promoted as the epitome of transformation, has […]

Glenda Daniels Two blind workers were dismissed from a private health company this month and have filed charges at the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA). This followed a restructuring exercise in the North West company where everyone was required to reapply for their jobs, but the two blind men were not rehired. The […]

Joan Smith Body Language A device to produce female orgasms? Excuse me, but I think we’ve been here before, and I’m not talking about the penis whose value in this context has long been the subject of debate or the kind of battery- driven vibrator you can buy in sex shops. It was mooted as […]

whipping boy Murphy’s law if something can go wrong, it will applies to horseracing more than any other sport. So when an animal named All Will Be Well heads what seems to be a reasonable list of “good things” this weekend, one naturally gets suspicious. All Will Be Well takes on nine rivals in the […]

Grant Shimmin athletics When one considers the man behind the newest national record in South African athletics, Burger Lambrechts, the clich “it couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy” just seems to slip out. Not that one’s first sight of this bull of a man he was a Craven Week lock at school who tips […]

Dylan Evans Managing the Human Animal by Nigel Nicholson (Texere) In the past few years, evolutionary psychology (or EP, as it is known) has given the chattering classes a lot to chatter about, but hasn’t had much impact in the world of business. That, however, may be about to change. A new book by Nigel […]

The Canterbury Crusaders are probably favourites for a fourth consecutive title, but all South African eyes will be on the local contenders as the Super 12 kicks off Andy Capostagno The sixth season of Super 12 may be the last, with pressure from above to expand the format and take up even more space in […]

Guy Willoughby theatre Is this the end or the beginning? How can we understand? John Betjeman’s lines hit home hard last week, as I watched the marvellous first performance in Cape Town of Death of a Salesman at once a gauntlet flung at the future and an elegy for a style of performance in fast […]