The former Bafana coach dealt South Africa’s Under-23s a blow at the Olympics Grant Shimmin in Sydney There could have been few happier men than Japanese coach Philippe Troussier at Canberra’s Bruce Stadium when the final whistle blew at the end of South Africa’s opening match in the Olympic football tournament last night. The delight […]

Economist Hernando de Soto is hailed as a saviour of poor countries. But he is nothing of the kind, writes Madeleine Bunting Hernando de Soto has pulled off a remarkable feat. You may not have heard of him, but governments around the world are apparently queuing up to hear what the Peruvian thinker has to […]

AFP, Harare | Friday FOUR opposition officials have been arrested after police in Zimbabwe raided three offices of the main opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) in search of weapons. One of several lawyers representing the MDC, Brian Kagoro said “they (the police) have arrested and detained” four officials after the early morning raid found […]

The Victorian English public school – rather than the ancient Greeks – inspired Pierre de Coubertin, founder of the modern Olympics Mark Whitaker Taking a short cut recently in the centre of Tunis, a city I’ve known well for years, I found myself in an unfamiliar run-down street. It took some time to find a […]

Duvall Pettway and Kojo Baffoe fashion Local fashion has climbed to an all-time high with designers pulling out all the stops at the 4th annual South African Fashion Week (SAFW). September can be re- dubbed fashion month with the showing of spring/summer collections at various events hosted around Johannesburg. The season kicked off in full […]

The Mail & Guardian’s Cape and Durban correspondents, Marianne Merten and Paul Kirk, were runners-up in the 2000 Ruth First Courageous Journalism Awards, announced this week by Rhodes University. The winner was The Star’s Lynne Altenroxel. Charlene Smith won the prize last year for her articles on rape in the M&G, news editor Mungo Soggot […]

For most of his political life Richard Nixon was prey to drink, prescription drugs and fits of rage. Talking to Nixon’s psychotherapist and key figures in his administration, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan piece together the events that culminated, astonishingly, in the president being asleep and incapable when his country went on nuclear alert against […]

Roshila Pillay One of South Africa’s most progressive schools, St Barnabas College in Johannesburg, faces closure after Standard Bank refused it further financial assistance – despite a World Bank request that it provide temporary financial support. The school has a unique approach characterised by a long-standing history of commitment to education where redress is most […]

HIGH Commissioner to the United Kingdom, Cheryl Carolus, has emerged as the African National Congress’s most favoured choice for mayor of Cape Town in the forthcoming local government elections, Business Day newspaper reports. An unnamed departmental official said he was aware of moves to end Cape-born Carolus’s tenure in London 18 months early so she […]

He gave up school at age 15 to concentrate on racing – and now he’s a motocross world champion at 17 Gavin Foster In 1998, his first year of 125cc motocross Grand Prix racing, Durbanite Grant Langston, then just 15, finished 35th in the world championships. Last year the youngster took a very impressive 10th. […]