1 Which Constitutional Court judge has not served in the court since taking office in
2 Whom did air charter company Foster-Webb sue for R50 000 in November over the non-payment of a two-year-old bill?
3 At which South African university was a lecture interrupted by a student falling through the ceiling?
4 To which visiting head of state did the Namaqualand Civic Association appeal for help with a land claim?
5 Who was the South African responsible for selling three countries’ rugby test match television rights to media baron Rupert
6 Which company’s proposed radio advertisement was banned by the SABC on the grounds of
7 Which former State Security Council member is to head one of the SABC’s three restructured television channels?
8 Former SADF officer Hendrick Theunissen laid charges of sodomy and assault, and was then himself charged with bestiality. Name one of the two charges on which he was eventually
9 On several occasions this year, Prince Bhekimpi of Swaziland complained of unwelcome visitors. Who were the visitors?
10 Previously unemployed squatter-camp resident Meshack Mbambalala finally found himself a job in November. What was the job?
11 Whose genitals prompted a letter to the French embassy?
12 What tragic events drew attention to the North West province village of Lebotlwane earlier this year?
13 Which South African claimed to be doing “a little esoteric research” and on what subject?
14 Whose death left Helena Dolny a widow?
15 Who ousted Lech Walesa in Poland’s November
16 Who employed hundreds of homeless South Africans for a day to help with a product
17 In which country did a political crisis erupt after one politician claimed another politician had been rude to him on a plane journey — and who were the politicians?
18 Which party fielded a candidate called Hitler in the local elections?
19 In which Eastern Cape town did a maid and her madam stand against each other in the local elections?
20 Who won a seat in the local elections after being defeated as a party leader in last year’s national elections — and which parties were involved?
21 Which Asian religious leader said he was coming to South Africa then didn’t — and which Asian religious leader did indeed
22 How many people could be hanged at one time on the gallows at Pretoria Central Prison, which were decommissioned this year?
23 Which Durban entrepreneur used film footage of Nelson Mandela to help market his product?
24 Which Nobel Prize-winning author appealed to Nelson Mandela to take a stand against Nigeria’s military regime a month before the execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa?
25 Arrange the following in the correct order: Constantin, Wilkau, Peter, und, Lieres, Klaus, von, Otto, and give the two reasons why he was in the news this year.
26 Name the authors of The Liberal Slideaway; A Soldier’s Way; Goodbye Bafana; A Life.
27 What is Colonel Kobus “Donker” Jonker’s job in the South African Police Services?
28 What word got Mark Fuhrman into trouble?
29 Which attorney general faced a barrage of questions from MPs in October?
30 Which British poet spent time in Pretoria Central Prison?
31 Who recently succeeded Ali Hassan Mwinyi as president of Tanzania?
32 Where were women told to take off their trousers before being served?
33 Which member of the government was appointed twice to the same position during
34 Which magazine reguarly publishes pictures of its editor in the nude?
35 The announcement that a certain South African was to be appointed as an ambassador prompted an outcry in the country where he was to serve. Who was the appointee, and what was the country?
36 What exchange control mechanism was scrapped in March this year?
37 Which company bailed out the African Bank?
38 Who took on hamburger chain MacDonalds in a legal battle over copyrights — and won?
39 Which government department dabbled with the Deeble plan?
40 Which South African celebrity checked into drug rehab after her lover was found dead of an overdose?
41 Who became the world’s most famous prostitute this year, and who was her most famous client?
42 Who was stopped by police for driving without a licence plate and ended up being charged with the worst terrorist attack ever to take place in the United States?
43 What item of clothing has become the trademark of Louis Farrakhan, leader of the Million Man March in Washington in October?
44 Whose body did they try to find 28 years after his death?
45 Which South African athlete became the world’s youngest ever drugs cheat in 1995?
46 How many balls did English cricketer Michael Atherton face in his legendary innings against South Africa?
47 Which South African cricketer is affectionately known as “Gogga”?
48 From what country is this year’s European Footballer of the year, George Weah?
49 Which footballer teamed up with Radio Metro DJ Bob Mabena to record a rap/disco CD this
50 An apparent game of soccer, held on the Market Precinct parking lot on February 25, was in fact what?
51 In which film do two small-time gangsters discuss the sexual properties of the foot
52 Which pop star spent most of the year with the word “Slave” scrawled across one cheek?
53 What did artists Christo and Jean-Claude Javacheff wrap in June this year?
54 Which film won six out of 18 Academy Awards in March this year?
55 Which South African author was on the jury at the Cannes Film Festival this year?
56 Besides Shosholoza, what number did street kids perform most often at this year’s Grahamstown Arts Festival?
57 What film became known as Kevin’s Gate when it cost its makers a record $200-million?
58 Who represented South Africa at London’s Africa95 concert?
59 Which South African artist posed the question: “But isi tart?” on the Johannesburg Biennale publicity posters?
60 When did Zonker, JJ and BD first appear in
Who said the following?
61 “You know why it’s so hot? Someone forgot to close the gate when they let in Slovo.”
62 “For the first time in my life I can afford to go to the hairdresser twice a week if I wanted to. But of course I don’t have time for
63 “I apologise to God. I don’t see why I need to apologise to Bishop Tutu.”
64 “I would do anything my mother-in-law said, as long as it was for a good cause.” (And who was the mother-in-law?)
65 “I appreciate what the international community is doing now, but I only wish they had done it sooner.”
66 “They are worse than pigs and dogs” (and what was he referring to?)
67 “Allan Boesak is one of the most gifted young men in the country. He deserves a very high diplomatic post.”
68 “I think I was made of revolutionary material. God must have known what I was going to go through, so he gave me a special skin.”
69 “Neo-Thatcherite palookas who would gladly privatise God” (and who was being referred
70 “You must excuse our SAfm accents.”
M&G quiz D the answers
1 Judge Richard Goldstone
2 Winnie Mandela
3 Vista University (Soweto campus)
4 Queen Elizabeth II
5 Louis Luyt
6 The Mail & Guardian
7 Louis Raubenheimer
8 Perjury / Defeating the ends of justice
9 Ghosts
10 Mayor of Ventersdorp
11 Saartjie Baartman
12 A succession of teenage suicides
13 Charles van Onselen — William Makgoba
14 Joe Slovo
15 Aleksander Kwasniewski
16 Microsoft, for the launch of Windows 95
17 United States — Newt Gingrich — Bill
18 The PAC (Hitler Mapeni, Hillbrow)
19 Morgan Bay
20 Frances Kendall, formerly of the Federal Party, now of the DP
21 The Dalai Lama — Sun Yung Moon
22 Seven
23 Anant Singh, producer of Cry, The Beloved
24 Wole Soyinka
25 Klaus Peter Constantin Otto von Lieres und Wilkau — he resigned as Witwatersrand attorney general, and took on the defence of IFP members in the Magnus Malan trial
26 Jill Wentzel; Colin Powell: James Gregory; Mamphela Ramphele
27 Head of the Occult-related Crime Unit
28 Nigger
29 Tim McNally of KwaZulu-Natal
30 Linton Kwesi Johnson
31 William Mkapa
32 A government office in Manzini, Swaziland
33 Brigitte Mabandla, Deputy Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
34 Asian Babes, edited by Satinder Kalair
35 Tom Langley — Portugal
36 The Financial Rand
37 New Africa Investments Ltd
38 George Sombonos
39 The Department of Health
40 Brenda Fassie
41 Divine Brown — Hugh Grant
42 Timothy McVeigh, chief suspect in the Oklahoma bombing
43 Bow tie
44 Che Guevara’s
45 Lisa de Villiers
46 492
47 Paul Adams
48 Liberia (but he plays for Italy’s AC
49 Doctor Khumalo of Kaiser Chiefs
50 A work of art by Phillipe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija (for the Johannesburg
51 Pulp Fiction (the actors are John Travolta and Samuel L Jackson)
52 The Artist Formerly Known as Prince
53 The Reichstag in Berlin
54 Forrest Gump
55 Nadine Gordimer
56 The hakka
57 Waterworld
58 Lucky Dube
59 Chickenman Mkhize
60 Twenty-five years ago
61 “Superspy” Craig Williamson
62 Riani de Wet, sometime MEC for public media in the North West
63 General Tienie Groenewald
64 Prince Musi Dhlamini — Winnie Mandela
65 Hauwa Wiwa, widow of Ken Saro-Wiwa
66 Robert Mugabe on gays and lesbians
67 Nelson Mandela
68 Winnie Mandela
69 Kader Asmal — the Democratic Party
70 Zwelakhe Sisulu