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/ 2 February 2001
Shaun Smillie A new study of residue left in age-old “tobacco” pipes could soon dispel the myth that it was only black tribesmen who used dagga in the early years of South African history. Palaeontologist Dr Francis Thackeray of the Transvaal Museum will be examining the blackened residues found in the bowls and stems of […]
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/ 2 February 2001
If the price of your favourite spirit seems too good to be true, it probably is Paul Kirk Counterfeit alcohol, made to look like genuine Scotch whisky, brandy and gin, is trickling into bottle stores across the country, threatening the lives of anyone stupid or desperate enough to buy a really, really cheap bottle of […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Deon Potgieter boxing It’ll be his third attempt to become the first South African boxer to win four world titles and Baby Jake Matlala is sure it’ll be third time lucky. Matlala faces Australian flyweight champion Todd Makelin for the vacant World Boxing Union (WBU) junior flyweight title on February 17 at Carnival City. The […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Peter Robinson cricket Many of those who bewail the lack of interest in South African provincial cricket conveniently overlook the obvious fact that the domestic game had its heyday during the days of isolation. And who’d want to go back there? At the same time, though, there are legitimate questions that need to be asked […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Party officials have rushed to take control of parliamentary committees investigating the arms procurement scandal Mungo Soggot Andrew Feinstein, the African National Congress MP who has been sidelined after adopting an independent stance over the arms saga, said this week he will not resign and will instead continue to push for a thorough probe of […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Barry Streek South African MPs are not a particularly interesting bunch of people, judging from the latest register of interests released in Parliament. They are, however, extremely well lubricated by liquor companies. Unfortunately for the investigators probing the arms deal, none of them have declared gifts from arms contractors. The MPs are obliged to declare […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Riaan Wolmarans CD OFTHEWEEK The Bomfunk MC’s know how to have fun. This is evident on the Finnish outfit’s debut album, In Stereo (Sony), from which the first single, Freestyler, shot them into the charts. This was followed by a string of hits like Uprocking Beats, B-Boys &Flygirls and Other Emcee’s. In Stereo is a […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Photographer Paul Alberts’s retrospective consists of 199 photographs taken over 30 years Matthew Burbidge ‘I’ll leave the happy pictures in my album of my family,” says photographer Paul Alberts of his exhibition, Retrospective 1970 to 2000, opening in Johannesburg next week. It is a brooding, sombre collection but then Alberts, like American photographer Diane Arbus, […]
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/ 2 February 2001
THE South African government will not intervene to save South African Mariette Bosch, who allegedly shot her best friend to marry her husband, from the gallows in Botswana. However, the Cape High Court is considering an application by Tanzanian national Khalfan Khamis Mohamed, the man allegedly responsible for the bomb that destroyed the United States […]
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/ 2 February 2001
Jaspreet Kindra Several African National Congress members have approached Minister of Defence Mosiuoa Lekota with claims that some members of Parliament received bribes to influence the R43-billion arms procurement package. Lekota said after a media briefing in Johannesburg last week that he had directed the members to pass on any relevant information to the auditor […]