Yearly Archives: 2001

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 […]

When Tranmere Rovers sent their Mersey rivals Everton and then Southampton crashing out of the FA Cup, it was not only the latest in a long line of giant-killings, but a reminder that loyalty and passion, not sponsorship and TV deals, are what make football ‘the beautiful game’ Kevin Sampson Many Tranmere Rovers supporters are […]

John Powell a Second Look A post-apartheid South Africa cannot effectively reach equality of educational opportunity, the right to choose a trade, occupation or profession, or the right to have access to adequate housing without affirmative action. A mere statement of structural equality without the support of effective affirmative remedies would not result in better […]

Andy Capostagno golf Leopard Creek is the kind of golf course that gets built when money is no object. It includes a clubhouse so exclusive that the professionals who are pegging it up in this week’s Tour Championship are not allowed in. That doesn’t apply to Ernie Els, of course, although since he owns a […]

Mungo Soggot and David Le Page The Oppenheimer company that is in line to effectively hold 45% of a delisted De Beers was, until very recently, registered in Liberia, a country from which it is impossible to extract any company information. This is one of several details about the historic transaction to have emerged as […]

OWN CORRESPONDENTS, New York | Friday INVESTIGATORS from the United Nations and the Organisation of African Unity say they are convinced that Togolese security forces murdered, tortured and raped hundreds of people after a 1998 presidential election. The wrongdoing in the West African nation ”would include, in addition to extra-judicial, summary and arbitrary executions, torture […]

A KENYAN magistrate has ordered the arrest of a waiter who refused to serve her chips. The waiter apparently would not take the order from the magistrate because she jumped the queue and demanded to be served before other customers. The magistrate stormed out of the restaurant and called the police, who took the waiter […]

THE combatants in the many-sided war in Congo have embraced a UN Security Council blueprint for peace – but acknowledge the path to the end of Africa’s biggest war is poorly marked and shrouded in uncertainty. ”There is still much to be done,” said Namibian Foreign Minister Theo-Ben Gurirab, speaking after the 15-nation council approved […]

OWN CORRESPONDENT, Cape Town | Thursday SOUTH African Finance Minister Trevor Manuel has given billions of rand to the poor and to middle income earners in tax reforms in a bittersweet budget designed to kickstart the rural economy and create much-needed jobs. Manuel said an ambitious privatisation plan would go ahead, and announced targetted tax […]